The common concensus that there must be more effective ways to awe and shock people than a huge ugly bombing -
Two main ideas raised -
1. The US Military develops a two hundred foot high George Bush robot that breathes fire. If one thing is going to stir fear in Joe Iraqi it's a huge effigy of Mr. B tossing about cars like confetti.
2. The US Superforce develops a huge airborne resemblance of Cherie Blair, a really big one. So big in fact that it can fly over Baghdad with the rock band U2 playing a gig in the mouth platform. Imagine the fear and panic as your foxholed Ba'ath boy hears "Lemon" roaring in from across the sands.
Both have their merits and their huge dollops of S'n'A. More suggestions now . . .
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― C J (C J), Sunday, 23 March 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)
In response to your recent double-page feature in Thursday's Gloucestershire Echo, I am willing to share my (hitherto secret) life's work into the development of a super-enormous coelenterate. Until now, I had now obvious use for it, given that, owing to insuperable problems regarding the cloning process, the resultant organism (hereinafter referred to as "Geoffrey") has been plagued with violent nervous aberrations. However, I feel that, given a modicum of further research, certain modifications may well be seen to provide a 'working model' replicating the motions of the aforementioned 'huge undulating vagina'.
― Pooster (pooster), Sunday, 23 March 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)
Dear Professor Pooster,
I am in receipt of and thank you for your prompt reply to my advertisement in last Thursday's Echo and I am delighted to learn of the great strides forward which you and Geoffrey have been making together.
However, I am a smidgeon concerned, viz: there are approximately 9000 species of coelenterates which already exist, and more than 100 of these are toxic to humans.
Before proceeding further with what would I am sure prove to be a mutually beneficial, lucrative and extremely funny project I would need to have your assurances that Geoffrey was indeed harmless. If we are going to end up stuffing thirty-seven of Cheltenham Ladies' College's finest up his jacksie, we need to be certain they will come to no harm. Many of them have access to top legal recourse, and I can't seem to get Public Liability Insurance to cover this sort of thing.
Yours in anticipation,
Ms C J Unruly (no relation)
― C J (C J), Sunday, 23 March 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)
I am unable to deliver this reply to the above, as your house appears to be swathed in a giant undulating vagina. Please remove it at once, so that normal postal services may resume.
Yrs
Your Postman
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― Matt (Matt), Monday, 24 March 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)
I am very sorry to have to impart this news to you, but I just heard that Roger Waters is writing a concept album about Geoffrey. As a result I have had to take him into hiding and I am sincerely afraid for the future of my project. He is a sensitive soul, and didn't much care for the shouting.
I would also like to point out that I am only a professor EMERITUS, which somewhat dilutes the whole scenario (if a scenario can indeed be diluted ... if not, forgive the whole frickin confused metaphor) ... and a professor emeritus of the University of Frodsham to boot. There. The truth is out. I know you will think much the less of me now ... but I hope my efforts to strap a bomb to a remote-controlled Tamiya model airplane (as recently outlined on news.bbc.co.uk) will still stand me in good stead for that Nobel prize.
Much human tenderness, J
― Pooster (pooster), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)
I ordered and subsequently recieved a "Tamiya model airplane."
I must say that I was severely disappointed.
The folding instructions were in Chinese and there was no bomb included.
As for the "remote control"...that silly string wouldn't scare anyone.
― Zen Clown (Zen Clown), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)
It seems "snipers" are something of a hazard to bona fide invaders of sovereign states, and Something Must Be Done about them.
Originally, I had considered strapping a bunch of Semtex to one of those home blimps as advertised in the Innovations catalogue. You know the ones, those things that carry an ashtray slung under them for particularly stoned individuals, so that they can flick their ash from a supine position. But I figured that they would be too slow in their approach, and the "sniper" would see it coming and, quite literally, pop it. Plus, feeble as it does seem, it wouldn't be much good at getting into occupied building if the windows were glazed with anything other than cobwebs.
The way I see it, with the increased payload a Tamiya model affords (BTW, next time go for something a little higher up the range if you are interested in developing any serious Defender-Busting Technology, is my advice) and a nice run-up at the window, you ought to be able to get that disturbing ginger-haired 16-yr-old lady-boy off of Robot Wars (you know the one) to land the package RIGHT up Ole Saddam's jacksey. It's the closest thing I can think of to bullets that go round corners.
I dunno. Who do you think I am, frickin Barnes Wallace?
― Pooster (pooster), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pooster (pooster), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)
Shockanory, read by Jock Endor
Sioc y'r Dwr: A Welsh Plumber's Tale of Huge Unexplained Explosions in Lake Vyrnwy. (OU, 1978)
Sioc y'r Glyndwr: The same, but set in a second home (Film, 1982. Entirely funded by the Iraqi version of Canal+)
Siau'ghdnureogh: Gaelic for 'fireworks'.
Sock 'n' Door: A 3-minute Channel 4 animation intended for stoned students
Spock and Dur: a spin-off of Star Trek, whereby the most intelligent, intellectual and logical member of the Enterprise crew is lost on a planet of cunning, life-threatening yet inanimate 3-D conundrums with the only other surviving crew member, a quasi-sapient cockroach named X'qwertyD'ur.
Not only Shock .... but also Awe: a willy-inspiring spoof of a Sixties satire show.
Shock and Dec: A light-hearted view of the current Middle-Eastern situation with a popular Geordie spin-off.
― Pooster (pooster), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)
xxxx Jon
― Pooster (pooster), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)
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― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 27 March 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)
Saint Jonathan-of-the-Wilson-socks-which-are-possibly-the-hardest-wearing-best-cotton-rich-socks-in-the-world-(second only to Gold-Toes, perhaps)-and-what-he-got-from-TK-Max-in-Runcorn-two-weeks-ago-for-the-bargain-price-of-sick-squid-for-a-bag-of-six-the-reason-for-them-being-so-great-being-that-they-don't-make-your-feet-smell-ever-even-if-you-wear-them-for-a-week-so-Ner.
― Pooster (pooster), Friday, 28 March 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)
(we're still going halvies on those 'Brittany Spears'/Aug.02, aren't we?)
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― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 8 May 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)
There has been devised a plan to import 70,000 thirty five feet tall inflatable penguins to Iraq.
The gist of the plan is to convince the locals that the new "ice age" has started and that they need to flee to the south.
Once the entire area has been deserted it will then be claimed as New East Florida and another star will be added to the flag!
I was told this by some old drunk wearing a 25 year old band hat from his high school.
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What do you say, Askable Drunks? Shall we take the carisoprodol by the horns? Or can we be arsed?
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― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)
"Do not take carisoprodol if you have acute intermittent porphyria."
I shall keep this in mind, inasmuch as the ingestion of heroic amounts of gin do not prevent me from having much in the way of a mind, though I'm curious how the above advice applies to porphyria sufferers for whom the condition is not acute or is continuous.
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Carisoprodol! Carisoprodol!
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