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(Yahoo)   Russian postal service loses a whole container ship of mail for seven years, but proudly announces the mail is perfectly preserved because it was hermetically sealed in a mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnall's front porch   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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President Raygun
2006-12-15 2:29:36 PM  
HHHHEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOO!

[image from i51.photobucket.com too old to be available]
 
dahmers love zombie
2006-12-15 3:20:34 PM  
What is....a pop culture reference only about 10% of Farkers will get?
 
square
2006-12-15 4:30:19 PM  
Jack Ryan surprisngly unavailable for comment
 
Whatthefark
2006-12-15 4:30:50 PM  
Carnac was the man. Todays late night talk show hosts only wish they could come up with something so simple yet so funny.
 
Mor Beal
2006-12-15 4:35:02 PM  
Now if the container ship belonged to the Chinese, we know it would have returned with the mail burned, the crew dead, and Jack Bauer shouting "Just try to kidnap me, you bastards!"
 
Mad Scientist [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-12-15 4:37:34 PM  
Submitter is really dating himself with that headline.

/me too
//not like that
///unless subby is a hot babe...
 
vincent_blackshadow
2006-12-15 4:40:47 PM  
may a diseased camel leave a steaming gift on your next headline...

/not really; carnac = classic bit ...
 
Churchill2004
2006-12-15 4:41:59 PM  
square: Jack Ryan


Huh?

I've read the Jack Ryan books and I don't get the connection here.
 
10.0.0.1 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-12-15 4:44:15 PM  
Now I asked if it happened in a certain "type" of Russia, and my post has been mangled, rendering it nonsensical.

Also there was a short commentary (visible after posting) as to the general level of intelligence behind my
contribution.

Very interesting....
 
MrOxen
2006-12-15 4:44:16 PM  
+2 subby for using hermetically
 
thespindrifter
2006-12-15 4:45:43 PM  
Churchill2004: I've read the Jack Ryan books and I don't get the connection here.

It was probably from the Saturday Morning cartoon, based on the comic, based on the movie, based on the book, based on the graphic novel, based on the hit TV show.

Sorry you missed it.
 
just_intonation
2006-12-15 4:47:08 PM  
Hell, if the Russians can lose an entire shipping container full of MAIL for seven years... just imagine where those (missing) WMDs Saddam had time to dispose of before our (non-surprising) invasion of Iraq might be.

/just sayin'
//Carnac rocked
///submitter rocks for Carnac reference
 
Lurker_John
2006-12-15 4:49:25 PM  
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest armpits of the infidels showing disrepect to Karnak.

/genuflecting out of thread
 
Goldstein
2006-12-15 4:49:44 PM  
Holy Jebus, Smitty. When I was a kid and had a question for my dad, he'd say go look it up in the Funk & Wagnall. Haven't heard that in a long time.

/ties onion on my belt
 
Spiny Freak
2006-12-15 4:50:37 PM  
I Russian Postal System, mail loses YOU!
 
Amigajoe
2006-12-15 4:53:28 PM  
-Bet there's some still-edible fruitcakes in there...


/to the extent fruitcake is ever edible
 
thespindrifter
2006-12-15 4:53:56 PM  
just_intonation: Hell, if the Russians can lose an entire shipping container full of MAIL for seven years... just imagine where those (missing) WMDs Saddam had time to dispose of before our (non-surprising) invasion of Iraq might be.

Sorry, no. Noone was sending a friggin' army looking for that mail, so the analogy fails. Now mind you, If they can bury 47+ MiGs in the sand, and hide gold inside a fuel tanker truck, then yes, it is possible that any real WMD's that theoretically could have existed might have been hidden temporarily until they were safely escorted to Syria, but if that were true, don't you think Bush would have invaded them by now?

[/threadjack]
 
dognose4
2006-12-15 4:54:42 PM  
The headline is so wrong.

Container ship:


[image from boatingsf.com too old to be available]

Shipping container:


[image from shipit.co.uk too old to be available]

There is a big difference.
 
square
2006-12-15 4:59:05 PM  
missing russian ships... it was a stretch, but dammit, man c'mon... this is fark not Harvard literature class
 
germaniac
2006-12-15 5:00:27 PM  
♫ I hope the Russians love their letters too ♫
 
Ed Grubermann [TotalFark]
2006-12-15 5:00:37 PM  
Is that a fork in the road?
 
Amigajoe
2006-12-15 5:02:22 PM  
just_intonation

-I've heard variations of that idea for years and it still fails to make sense to me. If the Iraqi military had all these weapons, wouldn't they have USED them. The country was being invaded! Can anyone actually believe that Saddam would hamstring his own army, let them get their asses kicked and him arrested/killed by the Americans so he could spirit his only real means of defense out of the country in order to make America look bad!? Do you see ANY logic in there, cuz I can't! It's self-serving BS to excuse the fact that the whole shebang was based on LIES...
 
xj14y
2006-12-15 5:07:12 PM  
Sis, Boom, Bah...

The sound of a sheep exploding.

/Waiting for a Flying Fickle Finger of Fate reference
 
thespindrifter
2006-12-15 5:07:34 PM  
Amigajoe: so he could spirit his only real means of defense out of the country

Well, they did over forty perfectly good MiG aircraft in the desert sands, and the only reason they found them was because the sands shifted. Not exactly the smart thing to do there, if you have enough pilots to at least put up something resembling a decent dog fight.

I'm not saying there were nukes there, I'm just saying that strange stuff was afoot during the invasion. Logic was definitely not in play here.
 
thespindrifter
2006-12-15 5:08:24 PM  
Hmmm.... my word "bury" seems to have mysteriously disappeared into the ether....
 
Arman N. Havana
2006-12-15 5:11:14 PM  
I'll put that headline in my Funk & Wagnalls and smoke it.

/Just like, um, um, my dad -- no, sorry -- my grandfather told me someone used to say on TV.
 
Winterhawk11
2006-12-15 5:17:35 PM  
Apropos of (nearly) nothing, it's actually Funk and Wagnall's back porch.

/old
 
Amigajoe
2006-12-15 5:17:59 PM  
thespindrifter

-Well I seriously doubt any pilot would take to the air after what happened in Gulf War I. They'd have to know it was suicide. I also seriously doubt that after 11 years of sanctions (so no replacement parts) those planes were 'perfectly good'...
 
Ape Shiat Nuts
2006-12-15 5:32:46 PM  
Actually, Dave Letterman has kept this reference alive by resurrecting Johnny's "Stump the Band" bit.
 
thespindrifter
2006-12-15 5:36:11 PM  
Amigajoe: seriously doubt that after 11 years of sanctions (so no replacement parts) those planes were 'perfectly good'...

Then why hide them? Really, why? That's a lot of work to hide something worthless, if they did indeed have no parts like you said.

Now, do you really think the sanctions stopped anything Saddam wanted from getting in? Really? Where did all that illegal (by Islamic law) booze come from? Or the American cash he had stashed in the walls of his palace?

To this day, I have never heard a reasonable explaination as to why all that gear was buried. If it wasn't valuable, they could have always sold the useable parts to an equally armed neighbor.
 
Grotfabrieken Rubbishhausen
2006-12-15 5:39:51 PM  
May a crazed weightlifter clean and jerk your sister

I came in here for Carnac quotes, not WMD debates, dammit!
 
thespindrifter
2006-12-15 5:44:01 PM  
Grotfabrieken Rubbishhausen: I came in here for Carnac quotes, not WMD debates, dammit!


Erm, um, sorry. Here's one:
The answer is... "Green Acres" Green Acres, everyone...
[opens envelope] "The Question is: What do you get when you kick Kermit the Frog below the belt?"

I love that one.
 
Grotfabrieken Rubbishhausen
2006-12-15 5:48:05 PM  
thespindrifter: What do you get when you kick Kermit the Frog below the belt

Much better!
 
vincent_blackshadow
2006-12-15 6:07:09 PM  
Ed Grubermann: Is that a fork in the road?

yes - take it ...
 
yotta
2006-12-15 6:15:39 PM  
B b b but, it was the Finns!
 
clownpenis.fart
2006-12-15 6:54:03 PM  
Her pounds a beat all day.

...

How does a policeman make borscht?
 
clownpenis.fart
2006-12-15 6:54:52 PM  
He, rather
 
No_he_didnt
2006-12-15 7:05:21 PM  
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