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    US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    This is only up there to make sure the Baldwins don't get bombed again
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    Image of CHUCK1UP CHUCK1UP
    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    BACON IS MEAT CANDY
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    @CHUCK1UP: You have my deep admiration, sir.
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    Image of robbo robbo
    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    @Kaiser-Machead moose bollocks are not as tasty as back bacon - only Americans call it Canadian bacon - but they do make a fine substitute for olives in a Canuck martini.


    Organizers are busy getting crowds of our citizens ready for an "arses along the border" gesture where, as the drone flies overhead, an unbroken line of Canadians will drop trou and moon the airborne snoop.


    Cheers.

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    Image of photophile photophile
    12/08/08

    @robbo: "but they do make a fine substitute for olives in a Canuck martini.


    Why would I want moose nuts in my Labbat Blue?

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    @photophile: Back bacon, Canadian bacon. It doesn't matter what adjective you put before it - it's not bacon.


    Here's a visual reference:




    Bacon




    Not bacon

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    Image of DavidFromCanada DavidFromCanada
    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    I dare ask the question where are you Americans gonna get your pot from?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    @DavidFromCanada: It's a plant. We can grow it here. We don't need tundra to grow it either.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    How many drones do you need to cover the ENTIRE US-CANADA BORDER?
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/08/08

    @booo: Just one. But it's the size of the moon.
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    Image of MabelNerva MabelNerva
    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    There will be no gravy on our french fries!

    Oh wait, that doesn't sound so bad.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/08/08

    @MabelNerva: Only those of weak gastrointestinal fortitude oppose poutine.
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    Image of cowboyshootist cowboyshootist
    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    Not sure what you're point is here. We tend to focus on our southern border because of the mass of humanity that comes across every day. On the other hand there are miles of unpatrolled northern border that present a serious security concern.


    You must have missed that report last week that suggest within the next 5 years we could have a biological or nuclear attack on American soil. I guess we can just all stick our heads in the sand and pretend that it won't ever happen.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    @cowboyshootist: Do biological or nuclear weapons threaten our bacon infrastructure?


    If having an intact bacon production capability means that New York has to take a hit every now and then, I'm for it.


    Virginia and North Carolina must be protected.

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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    I hear them up there... sharpening their ice skates... getting ready to come steal our cheese!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/08/08

    @Xenocide: Especially since cheeses sold in Metro and Provigo are much more expensive than the usual lot down here.
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    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    Moose bollocks.
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    just thinking about canadian bacon makes me salivate.
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    12/08/08

    @lostarchitect: You sick bastard. Go back to Toronto!
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    Image of Toastie Toastie
    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    So tempted to write a sentence that try's to replicate hick talk and base it on how dem dere beaver people been taking all de good 'Merican jobs like bio-medi-what-ya-call-it and ruining my country!


    --I...I, couldn't help it. I'm so ashamed....But can I take this time to ask why we are wasting money on this when it'd be better to help Canada try to find terrorists in their country? Let's just look at this for one second, Chances are the terrorist is probably flying into Canada or is already there, right? So they'll probably be in Canada or America a while before their attack as they get their resources and plans ready. Know where they won't be? Sitting on the border in plain sight of a UAV. It's not my job to work this type of thing out, but could I please have an explanation on why our border needs protecting? So please, explain away.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    12/08/08

    @Toastie: Unless they are tunneling, no matter how hard they try to hide, a UAV can spot them when they cross over.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    so, thats 1 UAV to cover 5,500 miles of border...... what a busy little drone!
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    Image of Mr.SithNinja Mr.SithNinja
    12/08/08

    @KhaiJB: Cosidering it is Canada we are talking aboot. That drone could wipe out their entire Air Force that consists of balsa wood rubber band powered planes with thumb tacks taped to the nose. They are hard to lock missles onto but the thumb tacks bounce off its hull and they all crash on their own anyway....
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    12/08/08

    @Mr.SithNinja: what the F-18's they bought of the US? your telling me the US flies crap aircraft? ;)
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    Excuse me Mr. Frucci.


    What steps will be taken to prevent Canadian bacon from mixing in with our bacon supply? You can't just lure me here with promises of bacon without supplying details.


    Is this to prevent Canadian bacon from coming in or our bacon going out? I'm very good at sussing out Canadian bacon and don't really need unmanned drones to keep Canadian bacon off my plate. However, if there is a threat of Canadians coming here and depriving American citizens of bacon, that is something up with which I will not put. I need to know if my strategic bacon reserves are at risk.


    Please describe the current state of our bacon defenses and how this drone enhances our national bacon security. Do we need to go to Defcon "Fatback"?

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    12/08/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: What about Pork Roll?!?!
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    12/08/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: I have time for neither your tomfoolery nor jackassery.


    We're at Bacon Alert "Rich and Smoky", up from "Savory". I can't help but fear if we are forced to go to Bacon Alert "Crispy".


    Those lousy Canadians - first they slander bacon's good name and now they want our bacon. My grandfather fought in WWII for the right to be a non-obvservant bacon-eating Jew and I'll be damned if some Molson-swilling Mountie takes away my pork products.


    Not one slab. Not one rasher.


    Better dead of hypercholesteremia and arteriosclerosis than living bacon-free under the ice-skated heel of those polar pricks.

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    Image of Sora57 is OK Sora57 is OK
    12/08/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: I believe it is called DefCon Fork
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    @Sora57: Gentlemen, let us raise a glass of Bacon Mary and toast to our mighty savory bacon, streaked with fat and full of salty smoky flavor.


    Eat your fill of bacon, friends, for tomorrow we invade Canada. We cannot allow this threat to our bacon to stand. Either Canada perishes or our bacon does.

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    12/08/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: That's the sort of thing a guido meathead on vacation in Belmar would ask. Damn the pork rolls. The bacon is our number one priority.
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    Image of Oh yeah, I still have a clock and a pencil! Oh yeah, I still have a clock and a pencil!
    12/08/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: you could always move to NC, there are more hogs than humans there
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/08/08

    @Kevin: My folks already have a summer home there. It's how I knew that Nags Head, NC has a hammock district.


    A ways down the road is a divey place called TL's Country Kitchen where $5 gets you red hots or bacon, home fries, eggs, grits, rolls and coffee. And there's Pigman's Barbecue which has the best pulled pork in the world.

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    Image of GiantEnemyCrab GiantEnemyCrab
    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    free healthcare?! No wonder we are afraid. The terrorists, they'll be so healthy!
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/08/08

    @GiantEnemyCrab:
    Canada has pay-clinics that don't accept the Canadian "health care" plan at all, for those who can afford to get real medical treatment when they need it, and not just when it eventually becomes available.
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    Image of Ohh! Chicken! Ohh! Chicken!
    12/08/08

    In reply to US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
    Yup. It's a sad state of affairs when the world's longest undefended border is no longer.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/08/08

    @Ohh! Chicken!:
    I was kinda wondering if spy drones would count in that regard...but then I noticed the giant missile strapped to its belly. Yup, it counts.
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