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H&I Fires* 05 March 2009

Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite.

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Let us open with a shout-out to United States Coast Guard Petty Officer Lavelas Luckey, who is a bona-fide hero.  H/t, AFSis.  -the Armorer

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A little link to Operation Fresh Air, a service to wounded service members and their families put on by Honor Their Service, a tiny little charity that I support, run by some Marine Baggage* I know.  Click on the pic - we're seeking assistance (and not just in the form of money, though we'll take that, too!). 



*Oh, and, really, her butt is not overly large, unlike ugly rumors to the contrary being spread by a malevolent scalawag. -the Armorer

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My neck hurts from the cartoon-like double-take induced by reading this passage...


Owner Tony Fox said the "mini-riot" erupted when four naked female guests protested when confronted by the fully-clothed man.

"They felt uncomfortable with him eyeing them off and I asked him to show some respect and take his clothes off," said the nudist colony manager.
"He then threatened to bash me, there was some argy-bargy and I ordered him off the premises and police were called."
Emphasis mine. H/t, Drudge.  -the Armorer

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Who knew President Obama had such little respect for Great Britain.  Of course, perhaps he's sending a message about his perception of Great Britain's continued slide to dhimmitude.  It's certainly an interesting approach to repairing the perceptions Euros have of the US.  -the Armorer

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Hey, at least in Georgia, being a politician and not paying your taxes is a bi-partisan effort!  -the Armorer
*A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires. Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute. Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it *is. The UAVs we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now. Of course, now I have to call them UAS's, because someone got a Legion of Merit for the name change.Anyway, I call the post H&I Fires because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to that particular topic. Another term of art that might be appropriate is Free Fire Zone.

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Oh, and, really, her butt is not overly large...

Unless she succumbs to the insidious whisperings of a certain frozen comestible...

 
Not overly large???

NOT OVERLY LARGE???

*laughing*

You really do enjoy yanking my chain, don't you? :p

 
Um, well, *yes.*  It's sooooooo rewarding!
 
Remind me to confiscate your camera the next time I see you....
You are having way too much fun with that photo.

 
Yeah, right.  Double-dog dare ya.

It wasn't me that put that undercarriage on display!
 
Isn't confiscating a Camara like, you know, called "carjacking" er "grand theft auto" er something?
 
Be happy with your butt, it could be sooooo much worse!
 
Yanno..............that photo is getting old.  I just happen to have photographic evidence of  a certain Blog Princess caught red-handed......

0>;~}

 
Heh.  Are we not mostly men?  That picture will *never* get old.  Besides, I may never get another one, as Cassie will either be backing away from me all the time or wearing hoop skirts...

As for you, Missy Sly, Produce!
 
...molesting a quart of Breyers' Mint Chocolate-Chip ice cream?
 
I was going to fling a trivet your way to protect Cass's honor.. but I see she's already all over your case.  (or maybe I should say a$$)
 
Don't you dare. Sly. The retribution would be unthinkable.
 
Oh.my.God.
 
Wow. That sure sounds like a double-dog-dare-ya to *me*...
 
Ooooo.  We're getting close to the "Good Stuff*!!!

And, frankly, I have a pretty vivid imagination, I bet I could make it thinkable.

It starts with Bill's Speciality, "Mud."

And goes downhill from there...
 
"He then threatened to bash me, there was some argy-bargy and I ordered him off the premises and police were called."

Why does this sound like a line from A Clockwork Orange?

 
Um, because the Brits and Aussies tawk funny?
 
Ah.  Missed the location the first time around.

Still does sound more like something from Clockwork than Aussies usually do...
 
"Argy-bargy"....who could even say that with a straight face, let alone an angry one?
 
Argent. Or Murray. Or Muffy-the-Brit who's our LNO from CAFTT.

The list is endless...
 
ar·gy-bar·gy (ärg-bärg)
n. pl. ar·gy-bar·gies Chiefly British Slang
A lively or disputatious discussion.

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Yes the term is legit.  Bit old fashioned though.  It's not really a word used when angry even though it refers to anger. the 'ie' extension in Aussieland is often a cutification.  By this i mean more personal, less formal, less serious you know.  ie the guy was saying the argument made by the cloth wearing man was silly.

I wonder if the dude was an Archbishop.  Taking the clothes off a sin you know but enganging in hedonistic sex acts and voyerism is OK.
 
How come the Aussies have so much fun and we are a bunch of ol' stick in the muds? We were both spawned by the same mother country.

The stick in the mud reference is in no way directed toward BillT.
 
The first Aussies were convicts IIRC...
 
The Aussies are descendant from two groups. Yes...the original convicts, but second, the soldiers or police that guarded them. From what I understand there are genealogy studies to establish which one is descendant from...Ok heated discussions.
 
Well ya see we didn't have the numbers to pen a nice Declaration so instead we laughed them out of the country.  Which is easy when you think about ideas like getting a good yuletide blaze going in summer.

Or maybe LaMigra has it, they sent so many crooks over here we started to run the show.  Oddly enough similar now happens in the US.
 
Fishmugger...we started out with Puritans.  Puritanism is defined as the overwhelming fear that somebody, somewhere, may be happy.  They landed in Boston before the advent of central heating.  They started out with convicts who landed on some of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

It was all inevitable from there on out.
 
jell-o, jell-o, jell-o...JELL-O, JELL-O, JELL-OOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

much mo bettah dan da kine mud.

Willing to pony up for film at 11.....
 
Hmmmm.  But wimmin likes mud-packs, Chief.  They're not as keen about squishy, oh never mind.