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Exploding turnip threat menaces Indiana town

Steven Griffiths

Baldrick attack... 

Happy

...heh heh heh, a punchline waiting years for a turnip-based bomb threat.

Darren B

Booooo!!!!! 

I thought this was heading for a Blackadder quote fest.

"We're in the stickiest situation since Sticky the Stick Insect got stuck on a sticky bun"

Daniel Wilkie

The linked article ref "Baldrick" 

How DO they come up with these nicknames?

"Sgt ‘Dan’ Flood and Sgt ‘Ian’ Reeve set" - 'Dan' and 'Ian' - those are the worst nicknames I've ever heard!

Anonymous Coward

Slutsky? 

Flame

Slutsky? really?

Is she married? If so she should have chosen to keep her maiden name; if not she needs to, if just to change her name.

Anyway, clearly someone was just trying to tell the recipient what a turnip he was.

I personally would have gone for the cook and mash bomb disposal method.

Paul

"or maybe that the X-ray didn't come out" 

Or perhaps, as our local frendly bomb desposal expert has admited befor, the bomb desposal people had turned up to a few to many false alarms and wanted something exciting to happen.

Chris iverson

my my 

Unhappy

I used to live not far from there, and I am not surprised

very no surprised

Michael H.F. Wilkinson

@Darren B. 

Coat

Blackadder quote fest?

That must be the worst idea since Abraham Lincoln said: "I'm tired of hanging around the White House, let's take in a show"

(Yes I know, from B. goes forth)

Mine the black one

Fluffykins

Well 

Coat

That's a turnip for the books!

Sorry

Dalen

I would complain about the lack of an IT angle... 

IT Angle

... but the article mentions a root.

Dave

Blackadder / Baldrick Quotefest 

Joke

- What's so funny Baldrick?

We only had the one turnip, my lord, and it was exactly the same shape as a thingie. But the Ironic thing is, is that my thingie is exactly the same shape as a Turnip.

Anonymous Coward

Even longer lines at airports 

Unhappy

So we will now be limited to only 100ml of root vegatables on aircraft!

Lewis Page

IT Angle-o-rama 

(Written by Reg staff)IT Angle

Not just a root but a robot fondly known as Bob.

Peter

I guess we're talking about deep rooted fear here 

Coat

Yeah, the one with the kevlar sheets in the front..

Peter Clarke

Blackadder quote 

'Boom! Boom! Boom!' or not in this case

Lindsay Bruce

More Blackadder references 

Happy

How much does this "Double-Baldrick" procedure cost, I wonder?

EB: "So Baldric what would you do if I gave you a £1,000?"

SB: "I'd buy a turnip of my very own."

EB: "So what would you do if I gave you £1,000,000?"

SB: "Oh that's different - I'd buy a big turnip in the country"

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EB (to the Prince in BA3): "You see, the ancient Greeks, Sir, wrote in legend of a terrible container in which all the evils of the world were trapped. How prophetic they were. All they got wrong was the name. They called it "Pandora's Box," when, of course, they meant "Baldrick's Trousers."

Anonymous Coward

Run Away! Run Away! 

Alert

Fools! Hosed, indeed! Bob the Robot obviously mated with the Terror Turnip. Think of the consequences!

Ah! Here comes the nurse with my medication...

Steven Hunter

Can't get blood from a turnip? 

Flame

Then what in the hell have we been paying all those GM food scientists for then? I for one am sick and tired of those jerks wasting our time and money "increasing the nutrient content of rice" and other bullshit projects like that. Let's get something useful for a change, yeah?

Spleen

Re: 14:08 

Flame

You do know that "ananee masqarad" is ancient Malinese for "one who tries to shag giraffe with his tiny cock", right?

We have enough trouble with English parents giving their children names that sound stupid in English without worrying about what our names might sound like in the hundreds of other world languages.

heystoopid

Ha ! Ha! 

Paris Hilton

Stupidity is , stupidity does !

bws

I'm shocked and apalled! 

Coat

Fort Wayne is only 60 miles away and I hear about this from a UK website? Oh the humor... the humor! This brings back find memories of the exploding sugar beet incident that almost took the front end off my car.

good times... good times.

kain preacher

Deadly weapon 

See what happens if you eat nothing but turnips for 8 days straight. WMD right there . Gas war fare.

Martin Maloney

If you're a shyster... 

Dead Vulture

...you never know what might turnip in your mail.

Michael

Aren't the swedes supposed to be neutral? 

Dead Vulture

And i'm still waiting for someone to mention "spud missiles" and weapons of "mash" destruction.

Arnold Layne

The usual measured response by the US is expected 

Paris Hilton

That'll be one extraordinary rendition flight coming up for Graham "The Turnip" Taylor then.

Paris, as it's a tale of two vegetables.

Martin Maloney

An exploding turnip... 

Dead Vulture

...is a real rutabaga!

(You know, like a bigamist is a heavy fog in Rome.)

Tim

I'm dying to know... 

Boffin

How does one make a turnip explode?

Anonymous Coward

Can't be too careful 

You just never know when someone will arm a turnip and detonate it amongst a lot of innocent people - it might even be schoolchildren. I think there ought to be new laws to prevent the misuse of these things.