I remember back in college, Pfloyd and I were rolling up a team of Special Forces types for some military game which we never got a chance to play. Pfloyd had the wonderful idea that Swedish was a particularly rare language, and thus we should have every team member take training in the language so that we could speak somewhat covertly. As such, we decided that the team would call itself "The Swedish Meatballs" (regardless of the fact that the characters were not Swedish), and the CO would jokingly be called "The Meat Head".

I was in charge of rolling up the XO, and for whatever reason I really wanted him to have an Uzi. The regulations were rather strict on weaponry, so I needed a good reason to carry one. I also had a problem focusing the team's linguistic skills on Swedish; after all, this team could be deployed anywhere. It's always nice to be able to talk to the locals.

Thus, I came to the stunning decision to make the XO an Isreali Jew. This would giv ehim access to Isreali weapons, and got me to convince Pfloyd to trade some (not all) of his Swedish language skills to Hebrew. The idea behind this was that, wherever you go, there's probably a Jewish temple complete with rabbis nearby.

As such, the XO became known as "The Kosher Meatball".

Just a thought...

--rR