So I was watching Leno last night...

[budanski]

One of the guests he had on was former POW Miller. After getting captured, he got frisked by his iraqi captors. They found his Skoal and asked what it was. He said it was candy and the three iraqis ate it and got really sick. priceless :D

[96B]

He's lucky they didnt go "Oh really, you eat it first or we'll break your legs"

[Trident-za]

Forgive my ignorance, but what is "Skoal"?

[Deuterium]

One of the guests he had on was former POW Miller. After getting captured, he got frisked by his iraqi captors. They found his Skoal and asked what it was. He said it was candy and the three iraqis ate it and got really sick. priceless :D

Article III of the Code of Conduct


If I am captured I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and to aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy.



Hats off to you Miller.

[Vance]

Forgive my ignorance, but what is "Skoal"?
I beileve it is chewing tobacco. Not something you wanna eat...

[Roger Rabbit]

I was hearing stories how troops were giving hexamine blocks to iraqi kids and telling them it was mint cake.

[Deuterium]

I was hearing stories how troops were giving hexamine blocks to iraqi kids and telling them it was mint cake.

Urban legend. Every deployment we get the same old story.

[Roger Rabbit]

thought it might have been, i presume that iraqi's do actually know what mint smells and tastes like

nice avatar by the way

[Merik]

was it wintergreen skoal? :D

[NcDeuce]

The vanilla is the best. ;)

[Zach R.]

Yea? And how would you know? :roll:

[NcDeuce]

Hmm...I don't know

[Merik]

They have Vanilla Skoal? Please tell me it aint true, but is it good?

[cut]

thought it might have been, i presume that iraqi's do actually know what mint smells and tastes like

nice avatar by the way

that reminds me...

I worked in India for a bit and the kids would call all sweets chocolate, even mints!

Mind you it was me who was supposed to be teaching them english..

[Red]

i worked in seira leonne and all the children clled every gun an Ak-47

[Dave.mil]

True story

A soldier serving in N Ireland in the late 70's asked a little kid if he wanted to hold his gun the kiddie answered "no my dad's got a better one" they found out where the kid lived and his dad did have a nice gun under the bedroom floorboards.

[Roger Rabbit]

The kid was Irish, nuff said. rofl

[USAF G]

Watch the Irish cracks, Rupert! :|

[Skaman]

He's lucky they didnt go "Oh really, you eat it first or we'll break your legs"

I actually heard they were treated very well for prisoners. They were fed, received medical attention and all necessary work under the Geneva Convention. They were not the barbaric torturers so to speak that existed in many cases which people tend to correlate with the 'enemy'.
The whole thing about lynch getting raped was bs.

[Roger Rabbit]

I'm watching it, still watching it, nope still finding it funny. Lighten up. Its call humour, you know that thing that allows us to laugh and makes life so much easier. You tell a good English joke and i even though i am English i'll still laugh at it. Humour is humour and nothing more m'kay?

[NcDeuce]

They have Vanilla Skoal? Please tell me it aint true, but is it good?

http://www.genuinetobacco.com/skoal-tobacco.asp

Getchu some! ;)

[USAF G]

Fair enough, I'll lighten up. I didn't realize it was a joke, due to it not being funny. Now that you have showed me the light, I still don't find it funny, but I won't get bent about it (what with it being a joke and all). :roll: