Archive for January, 2005

Thanks to the Military

Of all the wonderful gifts the US military has given, some excellent sarcastic acronyms.  Can you identify what these common acronyms, invented in the US Armed Forces, stand for?
SNAFU
BOHICA
FUBAR
 

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Iraqi Terrorists Use Disabled as Bombers

Terrorists used a disabled child as a suicide bomber on election day, Iraqi interior minister Falah al-Naqib said today.
In all, 44 people were killed in a total of 38 bomb attacks on polling stations. Police at the scene of one the Baghdad blasts said the bomber appeared to have Down’s syndrome.
Mr Al-Naqib praised [...]


Blogroll Pruning

I removed a blog from my roll.  The blog posts excellent material, but they have some sort of daemon running that constantly reports that their site has been updated when, in fact, it has not.  Good marketing to keep your name at the top of the Recently Updated lists, but, in my opinion, poor sportsmanship. 

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You Gotta Love Marines

Particularly, this one

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Great . . .

Now professional wrestlers are predicting global warming.

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