IED: Stupid or Cool?
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Is I.E.D. the stupidest media catch phrase for a bomb you've heard?
I.E.D.? WTFF? (the first "f" is for "flying)
7 (53.8%)
I.E.D. sounds more serious than pipe bomb! Send more troops!
2 (15.4%)
IED: The next WWF heel superstar.
1 (7.7%)
"A.I... You mean Artificial Intelligence?"
3 (23.1%)
Total votes: 13
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Chance Abattoir
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03-28-2006 02:21
Back in my day we just called them homemade bombs.
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Siro Mfume
XD
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03-28-2006 02:29
Stupid. There are better, more accurate, yet terse ways to describe such things without silly acronyms.
'pipe bomb'
'car bomb'
'tnt vest'
'bomb vest'
'nail grenade'
'your mom'
'bomb pie'
'Kevin Costner'
'fuck!'
'the thing, ya know?'
etc.
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Ordinal Malaprop
really very ordinary
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03-28-2006 02:32
It's another bit of military jargon that CNN presenters can use to make themselves feel all big and tough.
I dunno, maybe the army has a reason to distinguish between "blown up by a landmine" and "blown up by a shell rigged to a tripwire". Not being a military person myself, the first two words are more important to me.
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Zuzu Fassbinder
Little Miss No Tomorrow
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03-28-2006 04:13
From: Siro Mfume Stupid. There are better, more accurate, yet terse ways to describe such things without silly acronyms.
'tnt vest'
'Trinitrotoluene vest'
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Zuzu Fassbinder
Little Miss No Tomorrow
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03-28-2006 04:14
Oh... and I've already said it but... IED sounds too much like IUD. 
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Bond Harrington
Kills Threads At 500yds
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03-28-2006 06:24
From: Chance Abattoir Back in my day we just called them homemade bombs. We called them booby traps and left it at that. |
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Chance Abattoir
Future Rockin' Resmod
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03-28-2006 07:27
From: Bond Harrington We called them booby traps and left it at that.  SLICK SHOES?
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Joy Honey
Not just another dumass
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03-28-2006 07:44
I.E.D. = something someone in "power" decided to call homemade bombs so they'd sound more sinister.
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