The Socks That The Secretary Of State Wore To Meet The North Koreans Will Make Your Jaw Drop

Daily Caller ^ | 06/01/2018 | Benny Johnson

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

America’s top diplomat, Mike Pompeo, held historic meetings with North Korean diplomats in New York this week. And he wore green Army men socks while doing it.

[editor-surveyor]

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The Screamin’ Iggle.
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[hoosiermama]

These two yuge men standing next to the Koreans today and one of them is wearing green army socks. LOL.
Lots of smiles go a long way.

[Mollypitcher1]

It wasn’t Patton!

[Mollypitcher1]

I made lead soldiers by melting fishing sinkers and pouring them into a mold.

[Roccus]

No, ours were lead.

In the early 50s in NYC it was easily attainable. We’d get it from TelCo splicers for one, scavange from scraps left over when the NYC Parks Dept was using it to make anchors for lag bolts into large conglamorate concrete like benches or scavange from plumbing of houses or building demolition sites. One kid’s Dad had a mold and he would melt and pour it for us. Tin, which we’d get from ceilings in old buildings, was sold.

[GOPJ]

Ten bucks at Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Socksmith-Mens-Army-Black-Sock/dp/B00EEEQRIM/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_193_tr_img_2/143-6781244-0917439?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=CF6TXWBNGR5NXSV7J0CY

[rrrod]

Outstanding!!!

[G Larry]

I have a permanent remembrance of those plastic army men.

Seems they melt in very impressive burning droplets at dusk, as they zzzziiiip into the water of a flowing irrigation row.

And once, my knee got in the way and the scar is there nearly 60 years later.

[Right Wing Assault]

I've still got a couple of those guys.

When I was a kid, my buddy and I pretended they were from the USSR (remember that) and we would use them as BB gun targets in his basement. We went berserk when one of us hit the guy under his chin and his head went straight up off his body. We got pretty good beheading them and we weren't muzzl'ems.

[Right Wing Assault]

“Floods”...LOL...never heard that expression.

How did you miss out on "floods?"

[Mathews]

That wasn’t Patton, it was Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe, and he didn’t say, “Nuts.”

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

In the movie, after he heard that McAuliffe told the Germans “Nuts!” the Patton character said “A man that eloquent has to be saved.”

[Right Wing Assault]

I’m betting they were tin or aluminum. I had some, and they were definitely too hard and stiff to be lead.

One of my uncles was in WWII and he came back with some German souvenirs. We buddy and I found them in a box in our basement. They were some sort of paper mache on a wire frame. Not the best German engineering. Nice paint jobs, though.

[Right Wing Assault]

Seems they melt in very impressive burning droplets at dusk, as they zzzziiiip into the water of a flowing irrigation row.

Oh, yeah. I loved that "zzzziiiip" sound!

[Lucky2]

Subtle but effective :)

[G Larry]

If I recall, some of that effect was due to lead content......

[Mollypitcher1]

Patton said many great things. One of my favorites: “ I’d rather have a good plan today than a perfect plan three weeks from now.” Another favorite of mine, “ If everybody is thinking the same, somebody isn’t thinking.”

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

“Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance.”

[ZagFan]

[Jane Long]

I agree!!

Pompeo can run circles around Wolf....with or without his cool Army man socks 😂😂

Love Pompeo!