For more background on Private Snafu:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Snafu

L0LZ0RS!!!1!

I admit I was being deliberately provocative. Mainly because every time this issue has been raised by the Sift Gods lately, it's been shot down like a cold stone zeppelin with lead boots on Jupiter. And while I am very much in favour of involving the community in decision-making processes, I am against pandering to those with a vested interest in preventing change.

That, and I'm grumpy because a Bell Canada / Rogers Wireless snafu has left me without DSL for a week and I'm now surfing on 56k dialup. Eeeurgh!

By the way, I think the best method of shortening the queue time would be to tighten it by an hour every day for as long as necessary. For a Code Warrior of Lucky's gargantuan stature, that should be a snap.

Had the same dual reaction, to Fletch's comments....and I have no reaction, other than to understand the relevance, and perhaps, to see a bit of the motivation, as a reaction to stimulus, filtered through individual process. I got all shook up once, at Fletch, and it netted me some positive results, upon reflection , although my initial response, was concentrated in emotional, knee-jerk, reaction....This is a good example, of how the comment voting, has many dynamics, just as any other privilege does.

Frankly, I flex it up and down equally, and could give a rat's ass, about reaction too it...UNLESS, I get a pm, from the human being behind the attempts at clever retort, that leads to some meaningful dialog, etc.
At this point, perhaps you will be able to see, that to judge a book by it verbiage, is a fubar, snafu, clusterfuck.

This made me curious to see how many voices he does, so via wiki:

1. Porky Pig (1936-1989, assumed from Joe Dougherty)
2. The Maxwell (Jack Benny's car)
3. Daffy Duck (1937)
4. Happy Rabbit (a.k.a. Bugs Bunny's prototype) (1938)
5. Bugs Bunny (1940-1989)
6. Woody Woodpecker (1940)
7. Cecil Turtle (1941)
8. Tweety Bird (1942-1989)
9. Private Snafu, numerous World War II related cartoons (1943)
10. Yosemite Sam (1945-1989) ("Hare Trigger")
11. Pepé Le Pew (1945-1989)
12. Sylvester (1946-1989) aka Thomas (1947) in some films
13. Foghorn Leghorn (1946-1989)
14. The Barnyard Dawg (1946-1989)
15. Henery Hawk (1946-1989)
16. Charlie Dog (1947)
17. Mac (of Mac & Tosh) (1947)
18. K-9 (1948) (sidekick to Marvin the Martian)
19. Marvin the Martian (1948)
20. Road Runner (1949)
21. Beaky Buzzard (1950)
22. Elmer Fudd (1950, 1958, 1970s and 1980s)
23. Bruno the Bear (1951)
24. Wile E. Coyote (silent until 1952, first spoke in the short "Operation: Rabbit")
25. Speedy Gonzales (1953)
26. The Tasmanian Devil (1954)
27. Barney Rubble (1960-1989)
28. Dino (1960-1989) (Fred Flintstone's pet.)
29. Cosmo G. Spacely (1962)
30. Hardy Har Har (1962-1964)
31. Secret Squirrel (1965-1966)
32. Bubba McCoy from "Where's Huddles?"
33. Chug-a-Boom/The Ant Hill Mob/The Bully Brothers from "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1969)"
34. Speed Buggy (1973)
35. Tucker the Mouse from "A Cricket in Times Square (1973)"
36. Captain Caveman (1977)
37. Twiki from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
38. Heathcliff (1980, appeared in syndication from 1984-1987)

And by the way, uhhhh, isn't the point of assigning specific discussion, regarding a channel, to that channel's discussion forum, a way to keep the main sift talk page, for, as you stated above gorgonheap, "general discussion concerning VS or related topics?"

Then there's joedirt's little sacred cow, election 2008, which I for one, wish would be that last of this exercise in a nation's circle-jerking, ineffectual, business SNAFU'ed as usual.

But, who has the time to reform a completely fucked government, when there are all these toys to buy, and all these distractions to keep our jellied, aspic shrouded minds, busy?

Heard about 2 mins. of some talk show, with some tool, talking the same old bullshit story, that pit bulls, are inherently dangerous. This coming from a person who, like most who ascribe to similar nonsense, has no clue as to the workings of the animal mind, which is very simple to control.....bullshit in, bullshit out, for the most part.....this is the same dynamic at work, in an un-trained mutt, or a neurotic chihuahua that licks its defective owner's legs obsessively, or a Dalmation that runs in circles and barks, or a thousand other iterations, of the same, OWNER-GENERATED dysfunction.

The pit bull is an extremely sharp breed-loyal, dedicated to their keepers, and will die trying to please that keeper, regardless of how snafu the domesticated primate is. Would own one, raise it near infants, other animals, etc., with absolute confidence that MY dog, regardless of breed, would harm no-one, unless commanded....except in the case of an attack upon my person, then......fuck the world, the pit will become your nemesis.

Quite frankly, there is no meaning to these types of banter back n' forth, pep-rally, pick a side ramblings on these shows, left,right,black n' white, gray or otherwise, they all share a single distinction....Diversion. Issues are discussed, according to symptomology, not root cause. The pundits, easily forgettable, boorish, ass-hats. Name one, you state simply a name, of an idelogue , making money talking shit.....worse than a happy jello commercial, or being sold some fake gold at a flea market.

Hanratty, Lameballs, they have their pathetics, as do the other end, of the sprectum, all the wannabe actors, their causes, Al Gore and his spin-cycle, Clitless for president of United Ingrates, boy, you should have listened to your grandmother.....

Both camps, have emperors with no clothes, and basic common sense and a little history reading, should be all it takes, but of course, the media moguls in the world, are seeing to its demise, while building their little empires....Jeffersonian model would have worked fine......until that got snafu.....its the paradigm to cure, not the results of it.......

did never once call it conspiracy.... it's what you'd call in the Navy, a SNAFU
as situations like this go....(damned is not dead, unlike this stream)

can't believe he gave him the prize! and yeah, composure, should have call him a dumba**, not a trouble-maker. oh, it's "snafu" by the way, not "snafoo." as in "situation normal, all f'ed up"

Winston examined the four slips of paper which he had unrolled. Each contained a message of only one or two lines, in the abbreviated jargon -- not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words -- which was used in the Ministry for internal purposes. They ran:

times 17.3.84 bb speech malreported africa rectify

times 19.12.83 forecasts 3 yp 4th quarter 83 misprints verify current issue

times 14.2.84 miniplenty malquoted chocolate rectify

times 3.12.83 reporting bb dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling

With a faint feeling of satisfaction Winston laid the fourth message aside. It was an intricate and responsible job and had better be dealt with last. The other three were routine matters, though the second one would probably mean some tedious wading through lists of figures.

-excerpt from "SNAFU Earth".-2008, by Jorge Orwellios

Here we go again!!

1 Apr 27 VideoSift SiftBot ( 0.5K) Dead Video "Fast Food Nation Trailer"
2 Apr 27 VideoSift SiftBot ( 0.6K) Dead Video "Ashcroft's Singing on CNN: Let The Eagle Soar"
3 Apr 27 VideoSift SiftBot ( 0.5K) Dead Video "Touchscreen Boombox"
4 Apr 27 VideoSift SiftBot ( 0.7K) Dead Video "Lego Clock Part 1 -- The clock works by using s
5 Apr 27 VideoSift SiftBot ( 0.5K) Dead Video "Indian Superman"
6 Apr 27 VideoSift SiftBot ( 0.6K) Dead Video "Iran Air 747 TV Ad. from the late 1970s."
7 Apr 27 VideoSift SiftBot ( 0.5K) Dead Video "Chimp Playing Ms. Pac-Man."
8 Apr 27 VideoSift SiftBot ( 0.6K) Dead Video "Top Gun: A Requiem For Goose"
9 Apr 27 VideoSift SiftBot ( 0.5K) Dead Video "Bob Cat vs. Rattlesnake"
10 Apr 27 VideoSift SiftBot ( 0.6K) Dead Video "The Jeffersons 1st Season Opening"
11 Apr 27 VideoSift SiftBot ( 0.5K) Dead Video "Linux-Powered Cat Feeder"
12 Apr 27 VideoSift SiftBot ( 0.5K) Dead Video "Private SNAFU: Spies"
13 Apr 27 VideoSift SiftBot ( 0.6K) Dead Video "1982 - Carvel Cookie Puss and Cookie O'Puss"
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15 Apr 27 VideoSift SiftBot ( 0.6K) Dead Video "Sexy Ms./Miss/Mrs. McDonald TV Ad from Japan."

Man, was hopin' that jet was not gonna crash.....Whew!

This coulda been a fubar but was only a snafu....

Alright, I'm not one on stupid conspiracy.

But the speculation is started by the US crusade against the middle east benefiting haliburton.

Follow my logic here:

1) Terrorist Attack - world trade centers blow!
2) Smoking gun tape arises.
3) tali ban accused, harboring terrorists.
4) Attack Afghanistan. (Coalition Troops are still there)
5) Win! Now we attack Iraq in the ongoing war on Terror.
6) No WMDs - Habeas Corpus Destroyed.
7) Troops keep dying in the middle of a civil war.
Spending more money, and loosing controll.
9) Sending more Troops over to "help", (more like putting gas on a fire)
10) Mission Accompolished? Missions accompolished means major troop movement in a place are over, and they can begin to come home!

Last but not Least: All these bullshit excuses. I think that this situation is FUBAR, and SNAFU. It is all a complete Lie! Conspiracy or not, it smells pretty fishy to me.

Colin Powell Resigns, after lying to the UN about false Intelligence, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld says that WMDs are North South East, and west of Tikrit. HOLY crap he just said the cardinal directions. Forgive me but any one who doesn't believe that there is something else going on here is completely hypnotized by prime time television.

My feeling is: There house of cards is built on a foundation of lies, and its about to start raining fiery truth. The lies cannot last another term.

I don't know about this controlled demolition stuff, but a military demo team can demolish a building easy in a matter of hours. Even less, they do it all the time in controlled exercises. and this stuff about it needing to be controlled? Two very large buildings have fallen, and some more around it have been destroyed, an explosion to implode another building is something that wouldn't really matter.

But i have to say that this whole situation is a SNAFU, FUBAR, and Clusterf*ck. There are to many lies and not enough truth, so what ever is true we will never really know. So if there is a conspiracy then it is extremely well covered over by lot of other conspiracies. So i dont see a reason to worry about it any more, its the past we should worry about here and now. The future.

...realize this is an older story, I was looking for a clip of the Senior's recent on-air schizm, blubbering on camera for all nations to see, as he speaks of his progeny's sucess, yadda yadda, how he's "so proud".....THESE GUY ARE MORE DANGEROUS NOW THAN EVER!
Do not be naive sifters, this is public display of weakness
to most world leaders, and a real SNAFU of true colors by Herbert Walker Beast-Scary thing is, he's been in world politics long enough to know better...

this posted viddy is one of many examples of their insidious lack of dacor , not to mention, every time they open their mouths, a swarm of demonic wasps and flies pour out....

Peter Wallsten is a legally blind reporter, for the LA Times
abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2077873&page=1

...above link is the way it played out later.....

...I'm as conservative as they come, in many ways, which is why I think it proper to make a public spectacle of these guys, stocks are this sifter's suggestion, (not the insider-trading type) and now, more than ever, "Can we impeach this dangerous mthrfkr, and replace him with a Snowglobe, or a Cray....... SOMETHING????!!..