[pet peeve rant] Of course they’ll find them in the last place they look!! I fucking hate it when people bitch that, whenever they look for something, it’s always in the last place they look.
The only way it is not in the last place you look is if you fucking keep looking after you found it
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I know someone who named his cat “Mr. Pants,” but the cat has a complex so now they call him “The Cheat.” I made a tinfoil hat for one of my cats once. He loved his hat too. So much, that he was sharing sparkling silver barf balls with us for, like, a week.
Also,
Can I borrow one of the missile launchers? I really need to take out the sumbitch who keeps driving over my flowers with the lawn mower. Look, I know the grass is really tall because it’s done nothing but rain for the last 853 days, but how hard IS it to see a 3-foot tall bright pink thing?
Speaking of cat names…my brother gave me two cats that he had named Elrond and Garfinkel…being the sort of person that just can’t stand to see a cat belittled like that I renamed them (of course) Fred and Barney.
And if I EVER tried to put a tinfoil hat on them, they’d tweak right the fuck out. Then again, I CAN see Fred driving a little mini tank around as I have a remote control car that he loves to sit on while I zoom it around the house.
A majority of the nations of the world don’t have that much in their entire order of battle, and we can just call that an inventory discrepancy, “unaccounted for”.
Another possible explanation: duplicate inventory numbers, or items entered wrong in the paperwork, i.e. the missile launcher got written up with a property # that back at HQ was input in the system as belonging to a HMMV.
In the last days of the Soviet invasion of Hungary, a bunch of Soviet troops were sitting around a motorcycle cleaning weapons with gasoline. One thing led to another and the bike caught fire, destroying it.
To cover themselves the squad claimed that a passing car full of “Terrorists” fired them up and the machine was destroyed in combat.
The story stuck even through an investigating by the Military Poiice so an official report was sent up the chain. “Lost in combat, 1 motorcycle.”
Well battalion had crushed a jeep, and so added a jeep to the list. Regiment had misplaced a missile launcher, and so it too was added. At division and corps other items were annotated.
By the end of it all the “Firefight” had become a huge battle. All involved were given medals.