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Silly String Goes to War Against IEDs
Luban Doyle writes "In an age of multimillion-dollar high-tech weapons systems, sometimes it's the simplest ideas that can save lives. Which is why a New Jersey mother is organizing a drive to send cans of Silly String to Iraq.
American troops use the stuff to detect trip wires around bombs, as Marcelle Shriver learned from her son, a soldier in Iraq."
New slogan? "Iraq: It's a Party Over There!"
Its for the war on iraq!!
If they don't accept it they're TERRORISTS!
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No, I'm not kidding.
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It's like Napalm in a can! "I love the smell of Silly String in the morning!" Surfs Up!
hell, if Lockheed could create something which does the same thing and uses the same mundane process and chemicals, they can charge $5,000 per can, and the government may be interested.
Req. Order #12308-129
Item Description: Can, Aerosol, 12 oz., String, Silly, Camouflage
Quantity: 100,000
Destination: US Army, Baghdad, Iraq
Status: Approved
Comment: Can be weaponized as flame thrower if we purchase optional birthday cake.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
In the post Janet Jackson FCC gestapo tactics landscape, anchors on CNN are afraid to use the following terms:
boob
booby
boobies
tit
titties
fun bags
dirty pillows
natty-sags
I'm sure there are plenty more. This is the reason for the INAs we're hearing (Improvised Non-sensical Acronyms) such as "IEDs".
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
They use dogs with bees in their mouths, and when they bark they shoot bees at you.
It's a devastating weapon.
"Silly String?"
Couldn't we at least change the name to Freedom String-In-A-Can?
If Nalgene water bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nalgene water bottles.
At least they're Very Apt Germane Improvised Nonsensical Acryonyms
which is totally what she said
"The military is reluctant to talk about the use of Silly String, saying that discussing specific tactics will tip off insurgents."
As a consultant a few years back I worked on a product called GIS which ~half of the clients (the naive ones I guess) pronounced "jizz", with the unfortunate consequence of me sometimes being referred to as the "jizz expert". Hard work maintaining a professional air at one of those meetings...
while [ 1 ]; do echo -n -e "\xe2\x95\xb$((($RANDOM&1)+1))"; done
Would that then make silly string an IIEDDD?
improvised improvised explosive device detection device
Except in military usage, it wouldn't be called "silly". (This, besides being pejorative and politically incorrect, might infringe upon trademark.)
Expect instead "long-chained nontoxic polycarbon semi-liquid fast drying compound."
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After the whole Janet Jackson/FCC thing, mainstream media prefer IED.
I shall go and tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him.
I thought IED was some kind of contraceptive.
-1 inaccurate...
Homer: (taunting Mr. Burns) What are you gonna do? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark, they shoot bees at you?
Bet your wife is not too happy about that...
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