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Why didn't we all think of this???

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Refman, Mar 18, 2003.

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  1. Refman

    Refman Member

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    Have you noticed anything fishy about the inspection teams who have arrived in Iraq? They're all men. How in the name of the United Nations does anyone expect men to find Saddam's stash? We all know that men have a blind spot when it comes to finding things. For crying out loud! Men can't find the dirty clothes hamper. Men can't find the jar of jelly until it falls out of the cupboard and splatters on the floor.... and these are the people we have sent into Iraq to search for hidden weapons of mass destruction?


    I keep wondering why groups of mothers weren't sent in. Mothers can sniff out secrets quicker than a drug dog can find a gram of dope. Mothers can find gin bottles that dads have stashed in the attic beneath the rafters. They can tell when the lid of a cookie jar has been disturbed and notice when a quarter inch slice has been shaved off a chocolate cake. A mother can smell alcohol on your breath before you get your key in the front door and can smell cigarette smoke from a block away. By examining laundry, a mother knows more about their kids than Sherlock Holmes. And if a mother wants an answer to question, she can read an offender's eyes quicker than a homicide detective.

    This is from an email I was sent.


    So... considering the value a mother could bring to an inspection team, why are we sending a bunch of old men who will rely on electronic equipment to scout out hidden threats?

    My mother would walk in with a wooden soup spoon in one hand, grab Saddam by the ear, give it a good twist and snap, "Young man, do you have any weapons of mass destruction?" And God help him if he tried to lie to her. She'd march him down the street to some secret bunker and shove his nose into a nuclear bomb and say, "Uh, huh, and what do you call this, mister?" Whap! Thump! Whap! Whap! Whap! And she'd lay some stripes across his bare bottom with that soup spoon, then march him home in front of the whole of Baghdad. He'd not only come clean and apologize for lying about it, he'd cut every lawn in Baghdad for free for the whole damn summer.


    Inspectors - You want the job done? Call a mother.
     
  2. codell

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    Too true.

    I remember when I was a teen and I had a collection of Big Uns' that I tried to hide everywhere and anywhere and my mother would always find them and throw them away. I even hid one under the carpet and she still found it!

    The worst thing was, she would never say anything to me. Thats like adding insult to injury. :(
     
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    Because, in addition to being incapable of finding things, men also believe they are infallible. ;)
     
  5. sinohero

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    The only thing I learned since leaving home for college: Mothers are a good thing.
     
  6. Two Sandwiches

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    Mine can't thats just yours.;)


    (I know this was in an email, so you dont have to point out the fact that someone else wrote this).;)
     

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