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Comments on: US Navy robot kill-choppers to drop auto-snort podules

Suspect sailors' crack sniffed out by droids 

Posted Tuesday 21st October 2008 15:37 GMT

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Splendid use of the apostrophe there, sir. That headline could have been seriously ambiguous otherwise. Thumbs up all round, er ...

Why do they need it? 

Posted Tuesday 21st October 2008 15:59 GMT

If they want drugs, they can go to central America and fill a ship up with them.

Skynet 

Posted Tuesday 21st October 2008 16:27 GMT

Black Helicopters

How long til Skynet launches again??

I, for one... 

Posted Tuesday 21st October 2008 17:06 GMT

welcome our new drug-sniffing overlords.

Erm...

AKA 

Posted Tuesday 21st October 2008 17:16 GMT

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the Beagle YoYo

dog on a bungie cord.

I CAN HAZ NAVY PORK NOW PLZ??

Given the itchyness 

Posted Tuesday 21st October 2008 17:29 GMT

Of American trigger fingers, there will be very few nitrate filled bulk carriers reaching US shores.

As Flocke Kroes notes, the yanks could go direct to source and buy the drugs direct, thereby saving a great deal of time trying to find them later. Then if they should wish they could destroy them at leisure.

I know it is a bit like the King of England paying the Vikings a lot of money (Danegeld) to not come to England to take a lot of money but hey, that's business.

"change the paradigm" 

Posted Tuesday 21st October 2008 17:36 GMT

I love it when bods that term because generally it means anything but..

Oh, podules... 

Posted Tuesday 21st October 2008 18:29 GMT

I originally read it as auto snort poodles.

Nah... 

Posted Tuesday 21st October 2008 23:27 GMT

Joke

I read it as "sniffing out sailors' butt-crack."

Clubbers beware. 

Posted Wednesday 22nd October 2008 00:10 GMT

Joke

As you come out of the club at six in the morning, the last thing you want is a "podule" dropping out of the sky and rendering you even more incapable.

Sailors? On Drugs? 

Posted Wednesday 22nd October 2008 01:29 GMT

Joke

Either that helicopter is really, really small, or ........... Oh My God I'm a giant !!!

@Warhelmet 

Posted Wednesday 22nd October 2008 07:41 GMT

Never mind. I initially read that they were to be made by "Loonfinity". Despite what it actually says, I'm still not sure that I wasn't right the first time.

784k!? 

Posted Wednesday 22nd October 2008 13:06 GMT

Joke

The credit crunch must be hitting in - US Military signs a cheque for < 1 Million!

Podule spiders 

Posted Wednesday 22nd October 2008 13:22 GMT

Black Helicopters

Pleeeeease let the podules have spider legs and run around taking video of everything... it will make my video game / sci fi movie dreams come true.

Pete Loveday visualised this ages ago. 

Posted Wednesday 22nd October 2008 20:10 GMT

In one of his cartoons, a group of stoners were hassled by a drug sniffer dog being dangled from a police helicopter on a winch. One of them got on his motorbike, and, waving a joint, decoyed the dog (and helicopter) away. He then rode under a bridge, which the dog on the winch then smashed into.

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