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Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :

As I've been away for some time, I don't know if anyone posted this before. I find it rather...amusing. I mean... it's... weird, that something like this was even conceived as a serious proposal to Pentagon... Oh, yes, there is also the amazing "halitosis" bomb and the "flatulence" bomb :-). [ROFL]

Welll... links here:

BBC

Wikipedia

The Wikipedia entry also show other links to the subjects.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

It was never a serious proposal. It was an off-hand mention, as is obvious from the original text.

Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :

Soy Bomb?

Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :

I've found Tequila works really well.

Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :

quote:
Originally posted by The Pixiest:
I've found Tequila works really well.

As a Gay bomb?

Posted by Xaposert (Member # 1612) on :

This is only further evidence that the U.S. military has borrowed some ideas from OSC, and is now using a group of brilliant 6th-graders to come up with their military strategies.

Posted by Omega M. (Member # 7924) on :

If this actually existed, would it be against any war morality to use it? Is the humiliation at having "gone gay" too psychologically torturing? I'd like to try this on some Islamofascists!

Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :

quote:
It was never a serious proposal. It was an off-hand mention, as is obvious from the original text.

Off-hand or not, it wasn't meant to be taken as a joke when submitted to the Pentagon. Of course I don't think they actually went far with it, but the sheer fact that it was even considered is staggering. [ROFL]

Now I have all this weird visions about "The Stand" (Stephen King's book, you know?) but instead of the "Captain Trips" Superflu, we'd have another...chemical agent... oh, the humanity!

Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :

quote:
If this actually existed, would it be against any war morality to use it? Is the humiliation at having "gone gay" too psychologically torturing? I'd like to try this on some Islamofascists!

I bet you would, naughty boy... [Blushing]

Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :

stephan: Nothing makes straight girls go gay faster than tequila.

Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :

You guys laugh, but eventually one of these ideas sticks in a way it was never meant to.

I can't tell you how many things were designed for a purpose but are now used predominantly in a much different way.

But these alternate uses can be good or bad.

Look at dynamite and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD40

Posted by Fusiachi (Member # 7376) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Primal Curve:
Soy Bomb?

Spanish for... I am bomb. ;-)

Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :

There's a saying that no one is more than 8 pints away from... well, you know. [Wink]

Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Olivet:
There's a saying that no one is more than 8 pints away from... well, you know.

Wild and rampant homosexuality?

Yes, kudos to Phillip, master of making the implicit explicit!

Posted by Battler03 (Member # 10453) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Omega M.:
If this actually existed, would it be against any war morality to use it? Is the humiliation at having "gone gay" too psychologically torturing? I'd like to try this on some Islamofascists!

Don't know why you'd need to--no bomb you could invent would make them any more perverted than they already are. I was stationed in Balad for four months, and I can't tell you how much FLIR video we have of local nationals having their way with various types of livestock.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

Great use of my taxpayer money.

Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :

What if some of this was "accidentally" tested on various political and religious leaders throughout the country? I bet we'd have same-sex marriage laws in every state before you could say fabulous!

Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Joldo:

quote:
Originally posted by Olivet:
There's a saying that no one is more than 8 pints away from... well, you know.
Wild and rampant homosexuality?

Yes, kudos to Phillip, master of making the implicit explicit!

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

The USArmy would collapse when facing an enemy who's been GayBombed to Make Love, Not War.

"AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Medic! Medic! I've been kissed!"
Then at the field hospital...
"Sorry, son, we're gonna hafta discharge ya. We can't have soldiers engaging in public displays of affection for the same sex."

[ June 16, 2007, 12:45 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]

Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :

I need a bottle of this stuff... [Wink]