Did you ever see the movie, “Traitor“?
Turns out that, in the real world, ’splodeydopes don’t need much prodding:
Fourteen suspected terrorists died Tuesday night when the bus they rigged with explosives blew up prematurely, police said.
The explosion occurred as the suspects were riding the bus in the province of Kunduz, said police chief Abdul Raziq Yaqobi.
Enjoy the raisins.
They ought to feel lucky that they ’sploded like that and didn’t have to stick around for the OSHA investigation.
Reminds me of an old routine of the late comedian Sam Kinison about Chernobyle. “Hell,” he said, “We didn’t have to go to war with the Soviet Union–we got ‘em to BOMB THEMSELVES-BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!” ( throwing head back as he did so) LOL.
When rigged to explode Mr. Bus is no longer your friend.
Looks like we’re doing a good job of killing off the smart ones.
Just Darwin at work. Wish he’d get busier all over the world.
They forgot. The bus had to maintain at least 50 mph. Either that or Dennis Hopper hit the “ka-boom” button.
Reminds me of an episode of The Unit where a busful of smallpox infected terrorists needed to be stopped. Maybe SgtMaj Jonas Blane had a hand in this one as well…
OK, I’m dense. Enjoy the raisins. As in hooters?
Bill K.,
This might help
http://ko.offroadpakistan.com/religion/2004_08/quran_may_promise_grapes_not_virgins.html
Interesting bit about the grapes vs. virgins. I’m sure there is some commentary in there – I’m not up to the task.
Anyone? Anyone?
At the risk of stating the obvious, it would seem there are no electrical circuit diagrams in the Koran.
14?? Dang – 14 times 72 = 1008 virgins running ’round summers. Don’t think we got that many in the whole state. How DO they decide who gets which ones? And 1008 raisins is more than I got in the last box of Post Raisin Bran. Don’t ask.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Only regret is we didn’t have “film highlights at 11″
Is this in the running for Darwin Award of the Year now?
Wonder if enough of the bus is left to qualify for a cash for clunkers rebate should the Administration want to implement this hugely successful program in Afghanistan in order to provide a “teachable moment” about democracy in action?
“OK, boys. I finished the bomb, the bus is full of explosives, the detonator is highly unstable and I´m not really sure about the exact time it´ll go kaboom. Why don´t we take it to our lovelly unpaved bumpy road and ride a while?”
“Good call, Achmed, let´s go!”
Or as Tom Clancy calls them, “not so smart bombs”
Interesting note on “Enjoy the raisins” comes from a blog post by Frank J. http://www.imao.us/archives/001332.html and this in turn comes from a rather scholarly look at the text itself which renders the eternal reward as “white raisins of crystal clarity”. You can read an article about the analysis here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/jan/12/books.guardianreview5
Thanks for the amusing reminder of how truth is much less believable than fiction.
Oh, I was trying to remember who coined the term spodeydopes. Was it the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler? I do find an old reference here http://www.nicedoggie.net/2005/?p=1363
Hey, we got snacks and we got explosives. ROAD TRIP!