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		Backpack accidentally dropped by a WWII soldier uncovered by shifting sand in the Sahara desert. In related news, Matthew McConaughey still searching for a gold laden ship in the same area (telegraph.co.uk)		64
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Control_this		2007-12-01 04:24:57 PM

In other news, McConaughey still searching for a credible southern accent.

BigDumbGuy		2007-12-01 04:30:22 PM

I for one wouldn't poke around at a backpack found by the side of a road in Egypt.

Mr. Three		2007-12-01 04:35:36 PM

So, once again, there are pictures but we don't get to see them. Sigh. I hate when news sites do this!!!

Rusty Shackleford		2007-12-01 04:35:57 PM

It was probably stolen by this Musketeer. He was a thief, you know. Let all of the water out of the roller, too.

Pocket Ninja		2007-12-01 04:37:29 PM

Hm. There could be a buried airplane nearby and a hidden cave with the bones of an injured woman inside it.

Daughter of the Blood		2007-12-01 04:46:06 PM

You know what else was uncovered by shifting sand in the Sahara desert?

Lisa1990		2007-12-01 04:47:51 PM

Spiffy indeed!

Cerealspiller		2007-12-01 04:49:33 PM

shouldnt it be rucksack...

Hansenator		2007-12-01 04:49:38 PM

Gah! Don't remind me of that movie. Worst casting job EVER!

Bucky Katt		2007-12-01 04:49:56 PM

is the soldier getting his porn back?

/1940s pinups rawr!

PinkyPinkerton		2007-12-01 04:50:06 PM

My head is about to explode with the awesomeness of this post. It's one of those things I'll be thinking about for days. Could it be any more romantic? I'm callin' "The English Patient" romantic...without the tragic ending/shriveled Kristen Scott Thomas mummy.

kroonermanblack		2007-12-01 04:51:10 PM

I came for the 'sharp knees' equivalent comments on a bad movie, I was not disapointed.

Thank you fark.

BizarreRecords		2007-12-01 04:51:13 PM

In other news, McConaughey still searching for a credible southern accent.

Eh? He has a pretty standard Texas accent.

Cerealspiller		2007-12-01 04:53:58 PM

Daughter of the Blood: You know what else was uncovered by shifting sand in the Sahara desert?

your moms box?...

/sry to easy
//the "your mom" thing was used on me the other day
///just passing it on

EdgeRunner		2007-12-01 04:56:13 PM

In related news, Matthew McConaughey still searching for a gold laden ship in the same area

And in other related news, hundreds of Farkers have to search IMDB to figure out the movie reference.

/I won't say McConaughey's movies aren't all huge hits, but only because my Captain Obvious uniform is still at the dry cleaners.

Royale With Cheese		2007-12-01 04:58:39 PM

Lambeau		2007-12-01 05:04:02 PM

EdgeRunner
And in other related news, hundreds of Farkers have to search IMDB to figure out the movie reference.

Doubtful, if only because Penélope Cruz was in it, too . . .

richw		2007-12-01 05:06:35 PM

Who cares about mcConaughey...Did you notice the eye candy in the movie???

www.xmission.com

Thank you Penelope Cruz!

Great Janitor		2007-12-01 05:07:02 PM

I had free movie passes when I went to go see that movie. Well worth what I paid.

Actually, I enjoyed the movie as one of those mindless action movies with gaping holes in logic (the helicopter that didn't move out of the way from a cannonball, a civil war era ironclad with gold coins making it all the way to Africa, and no one found it and pillaged it).

Not to mention the chica in that movie...

Hal Jalykakik		2007-12-01 05:07:15 PM

Daughter of the Blood: You know what else was uncovered by shifting sand in the Sahara desert?

This?

mama's_tasty_foods		2007-12-01 05:07:19 PM

Wonder if they docked Mr. Ross's pay for the lost backpack? The widow should file for reimbursement.

fred and steve's steakhouse		2007-12-01 05:10:34 PM

I lost my dad's Vietnam Zippo lighter at Nantasket beach doing Bong hits. 5 years later some Metal detector geek found it and returned it to my dad and mentioned he found a Bong next to it. My dad gave me a beating for lying I took his lighter.....

note to lost and found hero's.....do not return.

rebelyell2006		2007-12-01 05:12:07 PM

Pocket Ninja: Hm. There could be a buried airplane nearby and a hidden cave with the bones of an injured woman inside it.

I think she probably would be dead, if they are her bones.

libbyshome		2007-12-01 05:12:28 PM

It is an incredible feeling. I can't really explain it.

Sometimes that happens to me.

geniusiknowit		2007-12-01 05:13:24 PM

The book was WAY better.

GungFu		2007-12-01 05:14:03 PM

PinkyPinkerton: My head is about to explode with the awesomeness of this post. It's one of those things I'll be thinking about for days. Could it be any more romantic? I'm callin' "The English Patient" romantic...without the tragic ending/shriveled Kristen Scott Thomas mummy.

Dude. It's a lost bag with letters inside.

Daughter of the Blood		2007-12-01 05:16:19 PM

Hal Jalykakik
Daughter of the Blood: You know what else was uncovered by shifting sand in the Sahara desert?

This?

If that turns out to be another--aw, hell. Hahahaha.

Cerealspiller

*snerk* I pretty much set myself up for that. Sadly, I don't have a clever answer, I just wanted to see what people would come up with. :p

PinkyPinkerton		2007-12-01 05:20:29 PM

Dude. It's a lost bag with letters inside.

It's not like finding a Hardee's bag out in the parking lot containing a Post It note telling my skank next door neighbor how his girlfriend's gonna ride it cowgirl tonight. Give a True Romantic a break!

TSD		2007-12-01 05:20:38 PM

Hal Jalykakik
Well played! That was some funny shiat. I never expected to get rickrolled in this thread.

//OK...I was going to do the same thing
///but without goosestepping Germans

GungFu		2007-12-01 05:24:05 PM

Mr. Three: So, once again, there are pictures but we don't get to see them. Sigh. I hate when news sites do this!!!

Gad, shut it, ya crybaby.

Here, a better tale, with picture AND a freakin' video of what's in the bag!

WWII army bag is found in desert (new window)

Happy now!?

/Popski's Private Army became the SAS. FYI.

kb7rky		2007-12-01 05:28:04 PM

Hal Jalykakik: Daughter of the Blood: You know what else was uncovered by shifting sand in the Sahara desert?

This?

You are going to be injured in a most horrible fashion.

GungFu		2007-12-01 05:28:55 PM

PinkyPinkerton: Dude. It's a lost bag with letters inside.

It's not like finding a Hardee's bag out in the parking lot containing a Post It note telling my skank next door neighbor how his girlfriend's gonna ride it cowgirl tonight. Give a True Romantic a break!

Read the BBC article. That should warm your heart a little.

2girlfriends.1backpack.

amazing_live_seamonkeys		2007-12-01 05:33:35 PM

Informative photo FTA:

www.telegraph.co.uk

In case you needed to know what the desert looks like.

agentanaranjado		2007-12-01 05:38:41 PM

Hal Jalykakik: Daughter of the Blood: You know what else was uncovered by shifting sand in the Sahara desert?

This?

best rickroll ever.

Jennifer		2007-12-01 05:44:32 PM

Ok, how many big cats and little cats were in the bag thats what I wanna know!

yotta		2007-12-01 05:45:28 PM

This story gave me a Sole Survivor (new window) moment.

Cerealspiller		2007-12-01 05:45:53 PM

Daughter of the Blood: *snerk* I pretty much set myself up for that. Sadly, I don't have a clever answer, I just wanted to see what people would come up with. :p

Any comment left here will set you up...

/Enjoy your night
//just like some farker will be enjoying my mom tonight

dwalder		2007-12-01 05:47:18 PM

Waugh, I is all sappy now.

It's news, not fark, but that's OK.

/Can't even make fun of the foreign guide...
www.cinemablend.com

Blast my romantic streak!

Xenu's Giant Pink Replicock		2007-12-01 05:50:59 PM

First, it might have been a bad movie, but it did star Penélope Cruz's ass.

Second, Hal Jalykakik's HitRoll has proven that despite all the bad things said about Nazis, they sure could boogie down at a consistent tempo.

Daughter of the Blood		2007-12-01 05:54:35 PM

Cerealspiller
Daughter of the Blood: *snerk* I pretty much set myself up for that. Sadly, I don't have a clever answer, I just wanted to see what people would come up with. :p

Any comment left here will set you up...

/Enjoy your night
//just like some farker will be enjoying my mom tonight

...This is true.

I plan to...in about ten minutes when I get off work :p

/er, enjoying my night, not your mom

Pocket Ninja		2007-12-01 06:05:22 PM

agentanaranjado: best rickroll ever.

You know, I know what a rickroll is, but just for shiats and grins I went to see its definition in the Urban Dictionary. There are 16 definitions, but that's not important right now. What is important is that there was a reference in one of those definitions to a "duckroll," which is a term with which I wasn't familiar. So I checked it out, and in the second of the two duckroll definitions read this line:

Often used on Ebaumsworld, a place where hackers on steroids congregate. (bold emphasis mine)

Really?

Admiral Digby		2007-12-01 06:10:25 PM

Why "accidentally" dropped and not "Thrown away in terror whilst running from the Africa Korps." ?

I keed

( or do I ? )

omeganuepsilon		2007-12-01 06:13:29 PM

I like how people will re-imagine an ending of a movie to force their wit, or lack there-of, on us.

Subby, you're doing it wrong.

belhade		2007-12-01 06:39:05 PM

I have a story like this!

One winter my hat blew off in a snowstorm when I was clearing off my car. Didn't bother looking for it. Forgot about it and in April when the snowbanks finished melting there it was, sitting in frozen gravel. Still intact, technically, but it needed a lot of washing.

So, yeah, it's kinda the same.

DVD		2007-12-01 06:43:43 PM

amazing_live_seamonkeys: Informative photo FTA:

In case you needed to know what the desert looks like.

Many days of trudging across that desert... many days... bring sunscreen!

adambuck		2007-12-01 06:47:10 PM

I wish all of Clive Cusslers books were movies. I know they're improbable but so are James Bond movies. When the movie came out a reviewer in my hometown called it a horrible movies with not reality in in. That is the point of the books just something to enjoy in between lifes moments.

/Clive has a new Dirk Pitt book out.

VushtrriBoy		2007-12-01 06:53:41 PM

I admit, I'm a sap for such things. What a cool story

The Onanist		2007-12-01 07:02:07 PM

fred and steve's steakhouse: I lost my dad's Vietnam Zippo lighter at Nantasket beach doing Bong hits. 5 years later some Metal detector geek found it and returned it to my dad and mentioned he found a Bong next to it. My dad gave me a beating for lying I took his lighter.....

Could have been worse...could have been his watch.

thestockmasters.com

The Onanist		2007-12-01 07:04:44 PM

Hal Jalykakik: Daughter of the Blood: You know what else was uncovered by shifting sand in the Sahara desert?

This?

Heh...Reich Rolled...nice...