A Place to Talk About War

I would like to hear from soldiers who have been in combat situations, from their families, or from others interested in this conversation. I am a graduate student interested in war rhetoric. I have no preset agenda: I simply want to listen, to learn, and to be supportive.

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Married, two kids. Worked in the defense industry for 20 years before taking a different path. I'll be starting my dissertation on the rhetoric of war in a few months. This semester I am teaching Freshman Composition. I DON'T CARE ABOUT BLOGGERS' SPELLING, PUNCTUATION, OR ANY OTHER GRAMMAR MATTERS--I JUST WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU.

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Time to Vote!

I'm having a hard time choosing a favorite caption because I'm such a wuss about hurting people's feelings. So, while I'm pondering how to handle this, I'm asking you, dear readers, to vote for your favorite caption for the Hamas/KFC picture posted below. Even if yours is the most hysterical caption ever, in the spirit of fair play please vote for someone's besides your own.

Post your vote by number.

1. "The Hamas,hommus,zinger burger will really fire you up"!!

2. In a display of solidarity, Jimmy "Mohammed" Smith (pictured left) stood with his Palestinian brothers while suffering effects from chemicals ingested earlier at the KFC (pictured far right). To Smith's right is Masood "Mumbles" Ahmed, a Harvard law graduate and inventor of the "Bic Pen Bomb" that recently caused major distress at airports across the country. These brothers-in-arms celebrated their prospects of a role in a legitimate military force by firing their weapons in the air while chanting "Freebird".

3. "Thanks for the help, Allah, but we've got the government and the Colonel now, so you've become a liability. Say hello to my little friend."

4. "KFC pays Hamas $20,000,000 and assorted firearms - Hamas replaces green flag with red."

5. "Skull caps are the new ski mask in 2006, says Hamas style consultant Adimi Soltan."

6. Branding rights gone astray. The all new Hamas-KFC resistance?

7. Colonel Sanders, American Icon, watches over Hamas, as they celebrate the "Death to America" grand opening of their first Kentucky Fried Chicken.

8. In their zeal to embrace other extremist regimes, Hamas has adopted the winner of the 1972 Lenin Lookalike contest winner as their icon. "We're finger-lickin' excited," Hamas spokesperson Bashir "Bubba" Muhammad (center) was quoted as saying. "We're ready to resist with all eleven herbs and spices of religious extremism now!"Joe Piscopo (pictured, left) had no comment.

9. WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
KFC IS FINGER LICKIN' GOOD

10. In keeping with the whole Danish brouhaha: "Hamas upset over Mohamed's likeness being used to sell infadel chicken"--I mean, no one has ever seen Mohamed and Col. Saunders together, have they?

11. "Magnificent! Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so!"- General George Patton

12. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. George S. Patton

13. Global Supply-Chain Monthly"Hamas militants hired to shoot fowl from sky to reduce raw materials acquisition cost."

14. Is that what they mean by free range chicken?

Entered too late for the contest, but here for your amusement anyway:
15. Mohammed al Absurd loudly boasts "I am going to march straight into Kentucky and personally shoot that chicken frying son-of-a-bitch."

16. "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." BertrandRussell