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This is not even the weirdest half-arsed pseudosolution cooked up by the Allied military in WWII, though it's probably the most successful one. We all know about B. F. Skinner's pigeon-guided missile, but the immediately-postwar British military took his ideas a step further. See, they needed a means of keeping components warm when they were buried under the ground in Germany in case of Soviet invasion. Ideas of how to do this ranged from the fairly normal (giving the gigantic landmines snuggly blankies, which is also adorable) to... well, see for yourself.EDIT: Additionally, since we're talking about the Rainbow Codes (Britain's official Department Of Weird Shit What Blows Up Good), I've recently discovered a program from the '50s to make an anti-ship nuke. Its name, randomly generated in accordance with Rainbow Code standards?
Green Cheese.
Make your own jokes about British cooking here. =]
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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory
FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.
Let's just say the original script for Chicken Run had a considerably darker ending and leave it at that.
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