# What the!?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 12, 2015, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351 "2015-06-12T12:51:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@peg4x4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peg4x4)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351/1 "2015-06-12T12:51:56Z")
There are 2 soldiers in camo across the street and a young man doing sit-ups with his toddler son looking on… Jade Helm?? Me and 2 other nosey old ladies went out,just to let them know they’d been spotted;)😉
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351/2 "2015-06-12T14:31:56Z")
1. Where exactly are you, and
2. Why is this causing such a notable reaction in you?
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351/3 "2015-06-12T15:56:52Z")
\*\*Run! Runnnnnnn!
\*\*_(“Jade Helm” cracks me up, because it makes me think of the Japanese euphemism “playing the jade flute.”)_
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351/4 "2015-06-12T20:52:36Z")
OP: It’s Jade Helm all right. Which is actually a false-flag cover for an actual attack against the citizenry.
Run for the hills. And whatever you do, don’t do anything that creates heat; their IR-equipped drones will spot from miles away and you’ll be blasted into oblivion.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351/5 "2015-06-12T22:18:11Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> **Run! Runnnnnnn!**
…The Sky is Falling…!\*
\*Everything’s bigger in Texas; even The Crazy
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### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351/6 "2015-06-12T22:48:25Z")
I notice that the OP hasn’t returned to the thread since confronting the “soldiers”…
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351/7 "2015-06-12T23:04:16Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#):
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> …The Sky is Falling…!\*
> \*Everything’s bigger in Texas; even The Crazy
Perhaps this should thread should be merged with [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=747793). 😉
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### Author:  [@peg4x4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peg4x4)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351/8 "2015-06-12T23:25:17Z")
> [@Gyrate](#):
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> 1. Where exactly are you, and
> 2. Why is this causing such a notable reaction in you?
Bastrop County,Texas – where there are more crazies than you can count.
Look it up. Mostly I’m looking on in amazement and amusement at our new Governor and the loonies who’ve scuttled out from under their rocks
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### Author:  [@peg4x4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peg4x4)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351/9 "2015-06-12T23:26:46Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#):
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> I notice that the OP hasn’t returned to the thread since confronting the “soldiers”…
The OP does have other things to do than hover over the keyboard:cool:
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351/10 "2015-06-13T00:09:32Z")
> [@peg4x4](#):
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> The OP does have other things to do than hover over the keyboard:cool:
The Op was not Amused. ;-p
Tell you what; is we toss over to you free a Beanbag Chair that we find totally useless and [have no room for here](http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/201554/rs_634x1024-150604130835-634.Chris-Christie-Wardrobe-Malfunction-Baseball-NYC.ms.060415.jpg), can we call it even?
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### Author:  [@peg4x4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peg4x4)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351/11 "2015-06-13T00:13:08Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#):
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> The Op was not Amused. ;-p
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> Tell you what; is we toss over to you free a Beanbag Chair that we find totally useless and [have no room for here](http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/201554/rs_634x1024-150604130835-634.Chris-Christie-Wardrobe-Malfunction-Baseball-NYC.ms.060415.jpg), can we call it even?
Oooh! Beanbag chair!! The cats could sleep on it 🙂
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### Author:  [@peg4x4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peg4x4)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351/12 "2015-06-13T00:14:49Z")
In other news,I get to have a kidney stone removed next week.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2015, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351/13 "2015-06-13T04:29:43Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#):
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> The Op was not Amused. ;-p
>
> Tell you what; is we toss over to you free a Beanbag Chair that we find totally useless and [have no room for here](http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/201554/rs_634x1024-150604130835-634.Chris-Christie-Wardrobe-Malfunction-Baseball-NYC.ms.060415.jpg), can we call it even?
Cameltoe?
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/722351/14 "2015-06-13T14:09:56Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> Cameltoe?
…catcher’s mitt…?