# Iraq promises unconventional acts **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 4, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-promises-unconventional-acts/166495 "2003-04-04T17:26:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-promises-unconventional-acts/166495/41 "2003-04-07T05:35:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*awww come on guys…I wanted a fun, Sigfried and Roy sort of war thread. Unconventional Acts! Sword Swallowing, Plate Spinning! \*\* * * * Gotcha…Siegfried and Roy meet The Blue Man Group, then start channeling Jim Rose. I’d actually travel to the desert\* to see _that_. \*No, not Basra…no farther east than Vegas! ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-promises-unconventional-acts/166495/42 "2003-04-07T15:46:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Evil Captor \* > \*\*Another likely ploy: a mass mooning by the Republican Guard. \*\* Must…resist…urge…to…make…obvious…remark. Thereby exposing themselves to our unconventional counterattack. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-promises-unconventional-acts/166495/43 "2003-04-07T16:50:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > **In interviews of soldiers who “cruised” Baghdad yesterday, they said that they rolled down streets lined with the bodies of dead Iraqi soldiers. Once the lead vehicles rolled past these bodies, the bodies performed a “Lazarus” manuver and opened fire on US soldiers.** Really? The Iraqi high command is getting strategic tips from _Planet of the Apes_ movies? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-promises-unconventional-acts/166495/44 "2003-04-07T16:54:16Z")
Donkey Show. ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-promises-unconventional-acts/166495/45 "2003-04-07T18:04:14Z")
Baghdad Bob’s Puppetry of the Penis!! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-promises-unconventional-acts/166495/46 "2003-04-08T02:16:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > \*\*Really? The Iraqi high command is getting strategic tips from _Planet of the Apes_ movies? \*\* Apparently so, however, the Iraqis were far less successful than Marky Mark was, evidently. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-promises-unconventional-acts/166495/47 "2003-04-08T02:53:04Z")
I have also heard that the Iraqis have developed a bunch of mutants along the line of those mentioned in the “Crap Future X-Men Mutant Threads” so that the troops will soon be dealing with the likes of Seiko Man and Perfect Toast Girl. ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-promises-unconventional-acts/166495/48 "2003-04-08T11:37:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scuba\_Ben \* > \*\*[Monty Python] > “I’ve got another idea. We build this chipmunk…” > [/Monty Python] \*\* The animal they built was a rabbit. After that failed, Bedevere suggested they build a badger. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-promises-unconventional-acts/166495.md?page=2)