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Old 13.06.2007, 11:19
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Pentagon admits it tried to build a "Gay Bomb"

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The US military investigated building a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other, government papers say...[snip]...causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.


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Re: Pentagon admits it tried to build a "Gay Bomb"

I note that the report also included : Scientists also reportedly considered a "sting me/attack me" chemical weapon.

I presume they must have concluded work on the "Chase me , chase me !" weapon ?

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Old 13.06.2007, 11:49
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Re: Pentagon admits it tried to build a "Gay Bomb"

/cut to stock film of released POW's

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Old 13.06.2007, 11:56
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Re: Pentagon admits it tried to build a "Gay Bomb"

What about a highly infectious weaponised form of cooties?
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Re: Pentagon admits it tried to build a "Gay Bomb"

Surely the enemy could've used the already-developed GayDar system that many of us possess?
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Re: Pentagon admits it tried to build a "Gay Bomb"

My favourite has to be the Who, Me?

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researchers pondered a "Who? Me?" bomb, which would simulate flatulence in enemy ranks.

Indeed, a "Who? Me?" device had been under consideration since 1945, the government papers say.

However, researchers concluded that the premise for such a device was fatally flawed because "people in many areas of the world do not find faecal odour offensive, since they smell it on a regular basis".
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My favourite has to be the Who, Me?


Presumably thats based around Brussel Sprouts.

I like the idea that instead of fighting, all the soldiers stand around looking at each other in disgust and accuse each other of farting.
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Re: Pentagon admits it tried to build a "Gay Bomb"

What about a military application of 'the brown note'? That would be funny...
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Presumably thats based around Brussel Sprouts.

I like the idea that instead of fighting, all the soldiers stand around looking at each other in disgust and accuse each other of farting.
true story here....

One night a long time ago, in a pretty drunken state in the greek "Steakhouse" restaurant I used to frequent, a couple of mates and me were finishing off our meals as the family who owned it were getting ready to eat theirs at a table just behind me at the end of the working night for them.

My mate had been letting off the old SBD's (Silent.. But Deadly) for a while and in an effort to retaliate, I produced one which was a lot louder than I had intended it to be.

That was that for the main guy in the restaurant. He came rushing up to me very annoyed shaking his fist exclaiming in his heavy Greek accent "I can't believe you done a Gazza in front of my family while they are eating...get out of my restauarant and don't ever come back"

That was the end of what had become quite a regular routine for me....pub till closing time followed by greek meal. For a while after, it being the usual thing to do, I would be asked if I was going to the Steakhouse to which I would reply "I can't" . When asked why not one of the others would invariably chip in with "he was banned for farting!"

The thing is, this would inevitably be misheard as fighting, and invoke exclamations of total surprise, me being regarded as such a pacifist. In some ways I kinda liked the "tough image" that this would betray and be tempted to leave it at that without further explanation....but my mates enjoyed telling the story too much to let it lie untold
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Re: Pentagon admits it tried to build a "Gay Bomb"

Sorry to be the first to crack and post this, but I couldn't help it
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Re: Pentagon admits it tried to build a "Gay Bomb"

I like the original video too
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