Stupidest idea I've ever heard of. Sadaam's hole being moved to Texas.

[greybeard]

This may be one of those phony urban legend things. If not, it's the most boneheaded scheme I've seen yet. You'd think they would have a few more things with higher priorities than this.
No-I haven't found a verifiable link to it yet. I supposedly came from something called the Free Republic.

From NICK PARKER Chief Foreign Correspondent, in Tikrit THE hole where Saddam Hussein was found is to be taken to America — as a monument to his capture.

US military engineers plan to excavate a huge block of Iraqi soil containing the underground chamber.

It might even be turned into a tourist attraction — with money raised going to relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq.

Commanders want Saddam’s last hiding place to be displayed at the giant Fort Hood military base in Texas.

It is home to the 4th Infantry Division, which seized Saddam on December 13.

US Army spokesman Major Gordon Tate said yesterday in the toppled tyrant’s home city Tikrit: “Our engineers are looking at ways of moving the hole back to the States.”

It would involve securing and moving hundreds of tons of clay in an enormous block.

Engineers say the feat is possible — and worth the effort to bring home the most spectacular trophy of Gulf War II.

More than 600 troops took part in the operation that snared Saddam on December 13 after an eight-month hunt.

They swooped on the 6ft by 3ft underground “spider hole” five paces from a hut on a farm in Ad Dawr. The village is ten miles south of Tikrit.

US forces have arrested Iraqi intelligence officer Gen Mumtaz al-Taji, who was suspected of directing terror attacks on Americans north of Baghdad.

[TracGunny]

Is this for real? The most studid thing I saw hauled back from the Gulf War was an Iraqi field kitchen on wheels for a Colonel. Wonder if it is in his backyard...

[firstsgtmike]

How do you move a hole?

[TracGunny]

...very carefully?... so that you do not knock dirt into it and fill it up while you are moving it?...

[greensideout]

LOL@firstsgtmike

I guess you just suck all the air out of it and relocate it into another location by blowing it back out?---lol

[greybeard]

It's not like Ft Hood is smack in the middle of a widely travelled tourist route either.

Be a lot easier to just recreate the dang thing from photos. How hard can it be to dig a cottonpickin septic tank anyway? Wait till Letterman and Leno get wind of this.

[greensideout]

The important thing is that when they are done the hole will be whole when the hole work is done.

[greybeard]

Gotta be a joke to be in this rag:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003590951,00.html

[greensideout]

greensideout has attached this image of a hole:








Of course you can't see it---it's a hole!---LOL

[firstsgtmike]

"I'm so dumb, and you think you're so smart, I'll bet you I can ask myself a question and answer it, then you'll ask yourself a question and you CAN'T answer it."

So the bet is made.

"Ok, I ask myself a question, I say self, how does a rabbit dig a hole without getting any dirt.? And I answers myself, I say self, a rabbit digs a hole without getting any dirt because he starts at the bottom of the hole and digs his way up."

"Yes, but how does the rabbit get to the bottom of the hole in the first place?"

OK smart guy, that's YOUR question, YOU answer it!"

[greensideout]

I'm not a smart guy but---

I say to myself, the rabbit started at the bottom of the hole because you said to self that he did, otherwise how could he?

[TracGunny]

...can't they just pick up the hole and put it in their pocket?...it worked for Ringo in "The Yellow Submarine"...and I'm always finding holes in my pockets...

[TracGunny]

"Yes, but how does the rabbit get to the bottom of the hole in the first place?"

The rabbit backs in?

[greensideout]

TracGunny, how can you find a hole in your pocket?
there is nothing to feel in a hole.---LOL

[greybeard]

And then you forget where you put 'em when you clean your pockets out?

I'm bettin there's a Drill Instructor somewhere that can tell you exactly how to dig that hole up and move it. I know one told me I had dug one in the wrong place once!!

Yeah, I've heard of catching falling stars and putting them in your pocket too.

[TracGunny]

TracGunny, how can you find a hole in your pocket?
there is nothing to feel in a hole.---LOL

...it has something to do with the String Theory, or Quantum Physics, I forget which...

[greybeard]

Originally posted by greensideout
TracGunny, how can you find a hole in your pocket?
there is nothing to feel in a hole.---LOL

GSO- you're doin supthin wrong!!!!:banana:

[TracGunny]

there is nothing to feel in a hole ...went out with this girl in high school once...:o

[greensideout]

Come on!!! I'm talking bou't the space between things! :)

[TracGunny]

...so was I...

[greensideout]

LMAO!

[greybeard]

I posted some jokes on a forum the other night, and one of the female members replied-"Don-you're too much!"

I made one reply "I've waited a lifetime for a woman to tell me that. Now I can die happy. :) "

[TracGunny]

greybeard: sad to say, but you are a step ahead of me, I'm still waiting for those words...LOL

GSO: the conversation was bound to take the turn it did, how long can a discussion about 'holes' go before it rolls into the gutter?...;)

[Devildogg4ever]

Hee, hee, Love that pic, greensideout!!! Very rare!!

[Sparrowhawk]

Leave it in Iraq and charge tourist to pee into it!

[greensideout]

Originally posted by firstsgtmike
"I'm so dumb, and you think you're so smart, I'll bet you I can ask myself a question and answer it, then you'll ask yourself a question and you CAN'T answer it."

So the bet is made.

"Ok, I ask myself a question, I say self, how does a rabbit dig a hole without getting any dirt.? And I answers myself, I say self, a rabbit digs a hole without getting any dirt because he starts at the bottom of the hole and digs his way up."

"Yes, but how does the rabbit get to the bottom of the hole in the first place?"

OK smart guy, that's YOUR question, YOU answer it!"


How about another try---guess I'm a little slow on the up take.:dazed:

The rabbit could have fallen into or crawed into the hole to reach the bottom. Either way, it digs the hole without getting any dirt because it's a HOLE. :banana:

[firstsgtmike]

TracGunny, how can you find a hole in your pocket?
there is nothing to feel in a hole.---LOL


That answer is simple. You feel along until there is nothing left to feel. Then you know you have found the hole.

A hole is the absence of ......... .

[greybeard]

there is nothing to feel in a hole
But it's not from lack of trying is it?

[P. M. SHEEHAN]

I have a great idea. Move it to the Clinton Library as part of his legacy. He's really the one who got us into the "big hole" in the first place. Maybe they could hand out cigars to the tourists who come to see it.

[TracGunny]

Maybe they could hand out cigars to the tourists who come to see it. ...they could store the cigars in the hole and advertise them as 'Slick Willy Havanas; fresh from a hole...':eek:

(Apologies to all; I couldn't resist...)

[david43844]

somebody's Brain Housing Group needs oiled