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Tampons come to the rescue in Iraq!! (Don't worry, it's a good story)
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Posted on 01/10/2005 9:07:11 PM PST by paulat
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To: paulat
Great story. I have not seen this before either. And quitch yer bietchen knowitalls!!
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posted on
01/10/2005 9:34:37 PM PST
by
US_MilitaryRules
(W 1, Get Over It !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW GO NUKE A MUSLIME CITY !!!!)
To: gimmebackmyconstitution
Hey, liners and pads make good wound dressing too! People use them on horses all the time!
To: paulat
This story was hot last week, paulat:
Everywhere but here at the FReep. Michelle Malkin did a column on the letter in "The Washington Times" and her Blog. Blackfive posted the letter first. Michelle and Captain's Quarters picked it up and ran with it.
I guess the Army and Marines are running short of "Rice Paddy Daddies". Who never went out into the bush without a few Tampons or pads tucked away somewhere in their ruck for bullet or shrapnel wounds.
I've sent out a few Care Packages with these 'items' and others to the guys and gals in the 'Stan and Sandbox. However they get used. They'll get used.
Jack.
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posted on
01/10/2005 9:34:57 PM PST
by
Jack Deth
(Knight Errant and Disemboweler of the WFTD Thread)
To: GummyIII
I hadn't seen it either. Call off the artillery. I was just explaining. Some of ye are so tetchy!
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posted on
01/10/2005 9:35:01 PM PST
by
Happygal
(liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
To: Happygal
Yes, very true. that's how we all learn to make this place so great I guess. I never read the directions on anything till it's hopelessly FUBAR anyway.. LOL!
To: Happygal
Argh...I fergot the wink at the end of me post to ye... I'm 99% Irish, btw! (It's been hillbilly-ized, but it's still in my bones!) My folks traced their ancestors and roots. I was pickin', not fussin'!! Honest! Peace.
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posted on
01/10/2005 9:37:33 PM PST
by
GummyIII
(Oops!! Tried to steal my own tagline!)
To: paulat
Tampons are awesome when used with Windex for cleaning your interior car windows and ducts. I went to Kroger and bought several boxes last month and the look on the over-pierced male teenie face metro-sexual was priceless, true.
Once one gets past the taboo of the associated stereotypes it becomes a no-brainer. I used tampons to stain a 60-year oak door, clipped a piece to level the dining room table from wobbling, and cleaned some window jams and so forth.
In fact, they are so handy I wish they made them bigger but there is a marketing issue so I'll stick with the small ones when staining an antique desk just picked at the local flea market. <\grin>
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posted on
01/10/2005 9:38:31 PM PST
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: GummyIII
Ahh kiss me arse..(NOW that is a 100% Irish response) *LOL*
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posted on
01/10/2005 9:39:14 PM PST
by
Happygal
(liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
To: GummyIII; paulat
Exactly! This is my 1st time seeing it too. I've know for years that sanitary pads make wonderful dressings for wounds but reading that a tampax saved a Marine's life made my night!
Thanks for posting this Paula.
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posted on
01/10/2005 9:40:09 PM PST
by
2nd amendment mama
( www.2asisters.org • Self defense is a basic human right!)
To: GummyIII
I searched...two times previously with original title. Personally, I read it this time because of the title. And I couldn't sleep. And I was bored. And....(repeat after me)must stop hillary....must stop hillary.... must stop hillary- you're getting sleepy... sleppy...
To: Mike Bates
And, they humiliated that poor humvee by tying panties to its antenna! Oh, the horror! Oh, the outrage!;)))
To: Frank_2001
No doubt Senator Corzine is en route already.
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posted on
01/10/2005 9:41:45 PM PST
by
Mike Bates
(Start the New Year with a good book. Modesty prevents me from suggesting which one.)
To: paulat
Someone needs to see that similar products, relabeled of course, are included in each Marine and Soldier's load. Just like they carry compression bandages. Probably take 10 years and Congressional intervention to get the things standardized and approved, but better late than never. Meanwhile Marines and Soldiers will do what's needed, regardless of the REMFs, in this case WREMFs from way way back in the rear (Somewhere in the DC area probably, which is in the rear in more ways than one :) )
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posted on
01/10/2005 9:45:19 PM PST
by
El Gato
(Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
To: Happygal
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posted on
01/10/2005 9:46:55 PM PST
by
GummyIII
(Oops!! Tried to steal my own tagline!)
To: quantim
Tampons are awesome when used with Windex for cleaning your interior car windows and ducts. I went to Kroger and bought several boxes last month and the look on the over-pierced male teenie face metro-sexual was priceless, true. Once one gets past the taboo of the associated stereotypes it becomes a no-brainer. I used tampons to stain a 60-year oak door, clipped a piece to level the dining room table from wobbling, and cleaned some window jams and so forth.
In fact, they are so handy I wish they made them bigger but there is a marketing issue so I'll stick with the small ones when staining an antique desk just picked at the local flea market. <\grin>
You had me gasping I was laughing so hard!! I have never heard of WOMEN finding other uses!!
I can hardly wait for your infomercial!!!
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posted on
01/10/2005 9:47:22 PM PST
by
paulat
(he)
To: nopardons
It may have been posted before but I hadn't seen it and really enjoyed reading it/
I have never posted a thread, is that what it's called and now probably won't.
I believe many of you who have been on here a long time have little patience with us "newbies".
I check Free Republic several times every day and can't understand why I haven't read it before,
And yes I have sent a donation to Free Republic, on the first day they had their request.
Frannie
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posted on
01/10/2005 9:48:08 PM PST
by
frannie
(I REPEAT --THE TRUTH WILL SET US ALL FREE--)
To: gimmebackmyconstitution
Forgive me for being ignorant, but what is the downside of posting a new thread on an old subject? I just don't see the harm. Isn't it easy enough to just scroll past it? Only downside I've ever seen is having to put up with all the whining and moaning from those who happened to be aware of the old thread. I never am, because this type of exchange always takes place on the first time I've seen an article.
Not to worry though. Those whining and moaning about a dupe post are merely serving to bump the thread back to the top, which I am sure is how I happened to stumble across them.
This post was a good story and it brought a smile to my face.
Funny, the posts that make me smile are the ones that somebody invariably complains about.
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posted on
01/10/2005 9:54:12 PM PST
by
bluefish
(Holding out for worthy tagline...)
To: frannie
Old timers get really fed up with newbies,because so many of them break all the posting rules...putting idiotic one or two sentences of PERSONAL thoughts vanities up in News/activism;sometimes even in Breaking News.Many are trolls.Others think that news threads are for chat.There are a lot of reasons that newbies are now more suspect and get flamed,than in the past.And
NO the real old timers here didn't do such things,when they were newbies.And
YES,newbies were in for some ribbing,even when they had made no posting mistakes,when I signed up;it's the way of FR.
A belated welcome to FR.
To: bluefish
I got you one better- I almost cried when I read the excerpt..I guess my Firefighter/EMT tough skin wasn't so tough at that moment... I didn't see that one coming. Smiles
To: nopardons
This has already been posted. Don't you check? No pardons eh? I missed the first one...
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posted on
01/10/2005 10:00:38 PM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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