flipper wrote:

On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:02:11 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


flipper wrote:

On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:41:28 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


flipper wrote:

On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:21:00 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:



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It's really sad what cheap booze does to people.

Ya think?

Well, the way government works these days we can subsidize 'quality
booze' and then run a "cash for rotgut" program.


That's how they get the rotgut in the first place.

Well, that would certainly explain a lot.

And a perfect companion to my having watched "Weird Warfare" on the
History Channel earlier as some of those 'inventors' must surely have
been drinking, smoking, snorting or injecting something.


In some cases: 'A mind is a terrible thing!' ;-)

Hehe.

The "Weird Warfare" show was basically an amusing rehash of the prior
"Weird Weapons of the Allies/Axis" shows.

Some worked, like explosive flour.

Some are examples of "oops, didn't think of that." Like the Soviet
'anti tank' dogs with explosives strapped onto their back and trained
to run under enemy tanks, at which point a wooden lever tripped the
explosive.

The "oops" is they trained them using Russian tanks, of course, but
theirs used different fuel than German tanks and since dogs are quite
smell sensitive they had a shockingly high tendency to run under their
own rather than the enemy's. Oops.

Does sound a little like a Wile E. Coyote cartoon, don't it?


Don't tell me. They bought the dogs from ACME?


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You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a Band-Aid™ on it, because it's
Teflon coated.