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Gotta be a hoax...
« on: June 08, 2007, 01:38:39 PM »
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21874633-952,00.html

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POLISH troops assigned to NATO forces in Afghanistan have been put on hold because someone lost the car keys, the country's defence ministry says.

The Polish troops - who were to be assigned to patrol the mountainous border area with Pakistan to search for Taliban guerrilla activity - will not be "combat ready" for up to several weeks until some spare keys to their US-built Humvees have been found.
"We had not expected the spare car keys to go missing," a defence ministry spokesman is reported as saying.

"We shall have to send away for spares, so it may take from several days to several weeks for our contingent to become combat ready."

Humvees have keys now?
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Re: Gotta be a hoax...
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2007, 02:36:02 PM »
1.  Maybe they ordered them with keyed ignitions.

2.  Maybe they're talking about the keys for the padlocks on the steering wheel, like the U.S. Army uses.
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Re: Gotta be a hoax...
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2007, 04:22:29 PM »
Maybe we sent them some old spray-painted Suburbans and told them they were Humvees.
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Re: Gotta be a hoax...
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2007, 05:53:38 PM »
Oh, wait, they were Polocks?  Didn't get that part at first.  Rumors that I am half-Polish are unsubstantiated speculation. 
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Re: Gotta be a hoax...
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2007, 08:47:10 PM »
This is the Royal Polish special forces 24/7 instantaneous response squad, right?

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Re: Gotta be a hoax...
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2007, 09:04:51 PM »
Now, if Fistful would just apologize to my 100% Polish wife...

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Re: Gotta be a hoax...
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2007, 12:13:04 AM »
>Now, if Fistful would just apologize to my 100% Polish wife.<

NOW we know how you managed to get her to marry you!!!!1 Tongue


C'mon Dick... you HAD to know that was coming...

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Re: Gotta be a hoax...
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2007, 06:48:44 AM »
Monkeyleg, as an apology to your wife, I should like to invite her to participate in a wonderful opportunity.  You see, there's this African potentate who needs to move his funds out of the country...
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Re: Gotta be a hoax...
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2007, 11:45:45 AM »
Heck, when I'm on a road trip, and I stop at a motel for the evening, the first thing I do is chain the steering wheel, VERY visibly, to one of the seat posts...
 
At times, with the trailer, I've also chained chocks through a wheel.
 
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Re: Gotta be a hoax...
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2007, 12:17:04 PM »
Strings, Fistful, you should never insult a Polish woman who's an experienced street fighter if you want to keep your wedding tackle intact.

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Re: Gotta be a hoax...
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2007, 06:44:37 PM »
I wasn't insulting Debbie, man... Wink

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Re: Gotta be a hoax...
« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2007, 06:56:36 PM »
The Polish special ops unit is no joke.

The only complaint I have is they gave our COL a H&K USP 9mm with the most heinous trigger ever found on an auto pistol.  Made a Jennings trigger seem slick by comparison.

On second thought, maybe the Poles were smarter than I thought, getting rid of the worst trigger in Poland, that way...
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Re: Gotta be a hoax...
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2007, 07:27:59 PM »
Strings, I know you weren't insulting her. I was just throwing a bit back at you.

About Debbie, though, here's a true story.

In high school, there was a girl named Jackie (last name Depps, or Dex...I forget).

Anyway, Debbie got on Jackie's wrong side, and a fight was scheduled in an alley off of 6th Street.

Debbie showed up, but didn't know that her mother had somehow gotten news of the fight.

Her mother stayed out of sight, but watched the fight to make sure that it didn't get too serious.

When the fight was over, her mother just told her that she did well, and to expect this sort of thing in life.

Once she was out of high school, Debbie got a job as a bar maid at the old John Hawk's Pub on Broadway.

One night, some outlaw biker type thought it was his First Amendment right to grab her ass.

Well, she dumped a full tray of drinks in his lap. And, when he stood up to protest this violation of his First Amendment rights, he got a knee to the groin.

Said biker took the owner of John Hawk's pub to court, and the judge just laughed.

Chalk one up for Polish girls. Smiley

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Re: Gotta be a hoax...
« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2007, 07:56:41 PM »
HMMWV keys rank right up there with grid squares; either a different vehicle the press got wrong or something else is missing. My old BN got a big shipment of new trucks, none of which were operational because the factory hadn't installed some random bit.
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