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April 18, 2005

Supporting the troops

Virginia Postrel linked to this rather funny advice letter to those who want to send care packages to the troops in Afghanistan:

VII. The meanest thing you can do to a soldier is to send generic, not name brand goods. It's worse than taking a dump in a cardboard box and shipping it over. Did we piss you off somehow? Generic brand is essentially the MREs of Care Packages. It's cruel and unusual punishment for service to our country.

Posted by Nicholas at April 18, 2005 03:19 PM
Comments
This one totally nails it:
X. Do not send Boohbahs. Jezuz. Are these intended for the local children? Are you trying to scare the living sh#t out of them? Why not send something less scary, like bloody eyeballs or a figurine of Michael Jackson.
Nothing good will come from sending the troops Boobahs or Teletubbies to hand out to the local kids. The next September 11 in twenty years could result from handing out Boobahs today. Posted by: Jon at April 18, 2005 04:14 PM
And if every soldier tosses his/her generic tinned veggies to the gound.....we will finally have peas on earth. Posted by: Dave at April 19, 2005 09:33 AM
Dave, that'll be a five-yard penalty for punning without a poetic licence. Posted by: Nicholas at April 19, 2005 11:24 AM
That's it. I'm going to take my anti-Alzheimer's pill and die. These guys don't have P38s. Imagine an American soldier bitching about can openers. Disgusting. The surplus stores have them--for us old foofs to be nostalgic with, and drive a screw with, or perform minor surgery with, and they hang real nice on the dog tag chain. You still have dog tag chains, don't you? Oh, man. What's the word for backward progress? Posted by: Richard Aubrey at April 25, 2005 11:17 PM


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