CNN explanation is fantasyland .....

[Blackhatjack]

Hold up a juice bottle, break out a battery from a disposable camera, and claim it is a bomb that could bring down an airplane. If that is the case, we should ground every plane and never fly again.

Mention the shoe bomber and say "he was onto something", but fail to mention that his shoe bomb could not be detonated, but rather just burned when the bomb squad tried to blow it up.

No charges --- no evidence --- but end up any interview with "it scares the hell out of me."

There you have it. Be afraid, very afraid. Mission accomplished.

[Patsy Stone]

1. No Mentos in Diet Coke either

Just sayin'...

[AnneD]

3. Can I still have

peanuts in my Dr Pepper. I have a medical condition...Southernitis. I can git a script for it if I need too.

[azurnoir]

11. Gee I dun'no

sounds dangerous to me, peanuts, pepper and a doctor?

[Patsy Stone]

15. As long as you don't get

your peanut butter in my chocolate, I think it's okay. :)

[baldguy]

2. The goal of terrorism is fear.

In that aspect, the BFEE has succeeded.

[LSK]

6. the goal of fear is unchecked military spending and reduction of rights

In that aspect, the BFEE has succeeded.

[Kutjara]

4. I particularly liked it when the 'security expert' said...

..."If you want a job in the security zone of an airport, you have to go through a background check to make sure you haven't got a criminal record. So all someone has to do is keep their nose clean and they'll sail through the check. That scares the hell out of me." It scares the hell out of him that people without criminal records are working at airports? Law-abiding citizens scare the hell out of him? Does he only want criminals manning the duty free shops? Or does he mean that all of us should be presumed guilty unless proved innocent? What a rube.

Where do they find these 'experts'? Skid row?

[Skidmore]

5. CNN researchers have been watching too many movies.

[BuyingThyme]

7. Wait until they start messin' with Alka-Seltzer.

[leftofthedial]

8. I think eating a preflight burrito

is more dangerous than most of the "bombs" in these plots

[Wickerman]

9. And, Mikey (of Life cereal fame) died by eating poprocks

with a few swigs of Coke. WD Fields was way ahead of his time when he said "there's a sucker born every minute." Maybe folks are onto the Terra!, Terra!, Terra! game, but I wouldn't count on it.

[Blackhatjack]

10. Sorry to hear about Mikey, Last I heard "He Liked it!!!!" n/t

[Wickerman]

he didn't

see Snopes - but it was widely believed, much like the myth that Bush** is strong on terra.

http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=mikey+pop+rocks&sp-a=00062d45-sp00000000&sp-advanced=1&sp-p=all&sp-w-control=1&sp-w=alike&sp-date-range=-1&sp-x=any&sp-c=100&sp-m=1&sp-s=0

[Skidmore]

12. Seriously? That's what happened to Mikey?

Man, that stinks. I just thought he grew up and became a mechanic or something.

[Wickerman]

14. nah, its the urban legend of urban legends

that he died as stated. They even parodied the urban legend in, well, Urban Legend.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1887865&mesg_id=1888133

[Blackhatjack]

16. I don't know, I heard that is what they want you to think ... LOL

....Anybody seen Mikey lately? <<key theme from Twilight Zone>>

[Wickerman]

17. there is definitely a tinfoilhat crew on that already

:evilgrin:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/10/07mikey.html

..snip..

During the last few years, rumors began circulating that Mikey, now in his early 30s, is very much alive and working at a radio station in New York. But the story can neither be confirmed nor denied. Ronald Bottrell, Quaker Oats's senior manager of corporate communications, would only say that, "We had to conceal him so that people would still think he was this chubby-cheeked, freckle-faced kid."

It would seem then that Mikey isn't only dead, but his death is part of a massive government cover-up. Do they really expect us to believe that Mikey is living a life of solitude? The Mikey we knew and loved — if he were still alive — would more likely be eating bowl after bowl of his favorite cereal, Life.

But perhaps the most conclusive proof of Mikey's death occurred in January of 1999, when Quaker Oats reprised the Mikey ad campaign well over a quarter-century after its debut, this time with an all-adult cast. The commercials featured a "grown-up" Mikey who, we were expected to believe, provided definitive proof that the beloved national icon was alive and well and still enjoying cereal. But none of us were taken in by the scam. The haggard old actor portraying Mikey looked nothing like the precocious child we remember so fondly.

Where were the chubby cheeks?

Where was the red turtle-neck sweater?

That wasn't Mikey! Mikey is dead!

[mmonk]

13. Save yourself with duct tape and plastic.