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Comments on: Exploding turnip threat menaces Indiana town

Baldrick attack... 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 13:49 GMT

Happy

...heh heh heh, a punchline waiting years for a turnip-based bomb threat.

Booooo!!!!! 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 13:54 GMT

I thought this was heading for a Blackadder quote fest.

"We're in the stickiest situation since Sticky the Stick Insect got stuck on a sticky bun"

The linked article ref "Baldrick" 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 13:56 GMT

How DO they come up with these nicknames?

"Sgt ‘Dan’ Flood and Sgt ‘Ian’ Reeve set" - 'Dan' and 'Ian' - those are the worst nicknames I've ever heard!

Slutsky? 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 14:08 GMT

Flame

Slutsky? really?

Is she married? If so she should have chosen to keep her maiden name; if not she needs to, if just to change her name.

Anyway, clearly someone was just trying to tell the recipient what a turnip he was.

I personally would have gone for the cook and mash bomb disposal method.

"or maybe that the X-ray didn't come out" 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 14:15 GMT

Or perhaps, as our local frendly bomb desposal expert has admited befor, the bomb desposal people had turned up to a few to many false alarms and wanted something exciting to happen.

my my 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 14:16 GMT

Unhappy

I used to live not far from there, and I am not surprised

very no surprised

@Darren B. 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 14:36 GMT

Coat

Blackadder quote fest?

That must be the worst idea since Abraham Lincoln said: "I'm tired of hanging around the White House, let's take in a show"

(Yes I know, from B. goes forth)

Mine the black one

Well 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 14:50 GMT

Coat

That's a turnip for the books!

Sorry

I would complain about the lack of an IT angle... 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 14:57 GMT

IT Angle

... but the article mentions a root.

Blackadder / Baldrick Quotefest 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 15:19 GMT

Joke

- What's so funny Baldrick?

We only had the one turnip, my lord, and it was exactly the same shape as a thingie. But the Ironic thing is, is that my thingie is exactly the same shape as a Turnip.

Even longer lines at airports 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 15:19 GMT

Unhappy

So we will now be limited to only 100ml of root vegatables on aircraft!

IT Angle-o-rama 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 15:24 GMT

IT Angle

Not just a root but a robot fondly known as Bob.

I guess we're talking about deep rooted fear here 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 15:43 GMT

Coat

Yeah, the one with the kevlar sheets in the front..

Blackadder quote 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 15:47 GMT

'Boom! Boom! Boom!' or not in this case

More Blackadder references 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 15:59 GMT

Happy

How much does this "Double-Baldrick" procedure cost, I wonder?

EB: "So Baldric what would you do if I gave you a £1,000?"

SB: "I'd buy a turnip of my very own."

EB: "So what would you do if I gave you £1,000,000?"

SB: "Oh that's different - I'd buy a big turnip in the country"

-

EB (to the Prince in BA3): "You see, the ancient Greeks, Sir, wrote in legend of a terrible container in which all the evils of the world were trapped. How prophetic they were. All they got wrong was the name. They called it "Pandora's Box," when, of course, they meant "Baldrick's Trousers."

Run Away! Run Away! 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 16:13 GMT

Alert

Fools! Hosed, indeed! Bob the Robot obviously mated with the Terror Turnip. Think of the consequences!

Ah! Here comes the nurse with my medication...

Can't get blood from a turnip? 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 16:36 GMT

Flame

Then what in the hell have we been paying all those GM food scientists for then? I for one am sick and tired of those jerks wasting our time and money "increasing the nutrient content of rice" and other bullshit projects like that. Let's get something useful for a change, yeah?

Re: 14:08 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 17:00 GMT

Flame

You do know that "ananee masqarad" is ancient Malinese for "one who tries to shag giraffe with his tiny cock", right?

We have enough trouble with English parents giving their children names that sound stupid in English without worrying about what our names might sound like in the hundreds of other world languages.

Ha ! Ha! 

Posted Monday 17th March 2008 23:09 GMT

Paris Hilton

Stupidity is , stupidity does !

I'm shocked and apalled! 

Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 00:21 GMT

Coat

Fort Wayne is only 60 miles away and I hear about this from a UK website? Oh the humor... the humor! This brings back find memories of the exploding sugar beet incident that almost took the front end off my car.

good times... good times.

Deadly weapon 

Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 02:59 GMT

See what happens if you eat nothing but turnips for 8 days straight. WMD right there . Gas war fare.

If you're a shyster... 

Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 09:05 GMT

Dead Vulture

...you never know what might turnip in your mail.

Aren't the swedes supposed to be neutral? 

Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 12:30 GMT

Dead Vulture

And i'm still waiting for someone to mention "spud missiles" and weapons of "mash" destruction.

The usual measured response by the US is expected 

Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 13:27 GMT

Paris Hilton

That'll be one extraordinary rendition flight coming up for Graham "The Turnip" Taylor then.

Paris, as it's a tale of two vegetables.

An exploding turnip... 

Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 14:32 GMT

Dead Vulture

...is a real rutabaga!

(You know, like a bigamist is a heavy fog in Rome.)

I'm dying to know... 

Posted Thursday 20th March 2008 12:58 GMT

Boffin

How does one make a turnip explode?

Can't be too careful 

Posted Monday 24th March 2008 21:24 GMT

You just never know when someone will arm a turnip and detonate it amongst a lot of innocent people - it might even be schoolchildren. I think there ought to be new laws to prevent the misuse of these things.

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