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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Yul Brynner does "The Babe Ruth Story":
Terminally-ill kid in hospital: Are you gonna hit a home run for me today, Babe?
Babe Ruth: I will hit a single, a double, a triple--et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. . .
ROFL!
See #4,237 :)
"Bert is evil, and I can prove it."
Like I was saying. . . :)
:-)
The Atkins pizza was a qualified success. Delish, highly edible, but very greasy. I'd make it again, though.
And if you have any doubts about the veracity of the second, look at this AP photo of celebratin' wogs...due east of the big UBL pic...
Sorry I took so long to get there. I found the site informative, and the "wish list" fascinating.
Some of the stuff are the "comfort items" we've been shipping. The rest is tactical gear and weapons accessories that range from the inexpensive to astronomical, at least for folks like us. The Leopold scopes that want push the $1000 price range, and they're still dirt cheap compared to the $3K scopes the government buys with our money.
Most of the significant items they want exist in the federal inventory, but they're generally unobtainable short of "midnight requisition". I firmly believe there's a secret warehouse somewhere, as in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", where all these high-priced goodies are stored by the thousands, lovingly inventoried by highly-paid civil servants, but never to be used by our troops.
For example, the "high quality compact binoculars" are the M-24, developed in 1991 after GW1. In the inventory for 13 years now, but GIs have never even heard of it, much less seen one. There are probably thousands (at $250 each) in the warehouse, stored next to the mint 1876 Springfield Trapdoors still in the crate.
I wish the site would date the wish list, and update it over time. Some items that are listed as "in short supply" now are pretty common, like batteries. The military eventually ramps up to produce the more common stuff. But the specialized gear the sniper needs is based on ten-year-old purchasing plans that assumed a peacetime military that budgeted for only a few snipers in the TO&E, rather than the hundreds now being graduated from in-theater training schools. It exists, there's a NSN for it, but nobody will admit where it is, or how to get it.
Besides, if all those goodies were issued to the troops, there'd be nothing for the civil service employees to inventory.
Sounds good, except for the greasy part! What kind of toppings did you use?
I thought bert was just gay.
What did Bert know, and when did he know it?
Pepperoni and cheese. Wonder how it could possibly be greasy....
I am discovering that now is an excellent time to purchase artificial Christmas trees.
Mmm--pepperoni and cheese. . .
I had pineapple toppings the other day. Vey good. . .
They're ready for ShootMoot. Reckon that's still 9 or 10 months out :)
Pineapple on pizza is the second most disgusting topping, after anchovies. And I'm qualified to say so, I worked in a pizza shop two summers back.
2. As soon as Clinton told him.
...oops...
I like it every now and again. It's different. I'm also fond of "mexican"-ized pizza. Chile-based sauce and meats with cheddar on top.
Around here, they're scarce as Christmas trees in August.
Oh wait...
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