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ironhold
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Skippy's List Mar 2, 2014 3:12:33 GMT

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Post by ironhold on Mar 2, 2014 3:12:33 GMT

For those of you who do not know, there is a little thing circulating around the internet known as "Skippy's List"; there is even a website, but I shall not link to it as just about everything on there is NSFW.

According to the website, every item on the main list is either something that:

1. Skippy did during his time in the Army
2. Skippy saw someone else do during his time in the Army.
3. Skippy was randomly told not to do.
4. Skippy asked for more information about #3 and was given more information than he wanted.

Between the original list and the "Friends of Skippy" list, I figure that there should be some interesting things to test.

Skippy's list:

183. My chain of command has neither the time, nor the inclination to hear about what I did with six boxes of Fruit Roll-Ups. ®

As later clarified on the "about" page:

10. Skippy was a weird little cuss.
Look, if spending your leave assembling a kilt out of fruit roll-ups in order to be the world’s first “Edible Scot” makes you weird…on second thought, that is kinda weird, so yeah, I guess that one stands.

So - can you really make a wearable kilt out of six boxes (or less) of fruit leather?

Friends list:

Combining blanks and cleaning rods in the M16A2 rifle is not an acceptable means of acquiring “meat for the tribe.” It should be noted it’s a [censored] unpinning a squirrel from a tree and you NEVER get your cleaning rod back.

So - "blank" + "cleaning rod" = squirrel sticker?

memeengine
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Skippy's List Mar 2, 2014 10:26:27 GMT

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Post by memeengine on Mar 2, 2014 10:26:27 GMT

Mar 2, 2014 3:12:33 GMT ironhold said:

So - can you really make a wearable kilt out of six boxes (or less) of fruit leather?

I would think that the first step would be forming an acceptable definition of "wearable". Something that you could put on once? Put on and move around? Put on, move around, take off, put on again...etc ? How much coverage would the kilt need to provide?

So - "blank" + "cleaning rod" = squirrel sticker?

Sounds very much along the same lines as the "musket + ramrod" myth, which I believe appeared more than once on the old boards. Although, presumably, the cleaning rod might engage the rifling and therefore benefit from some spin as it left the barrel. It would be interesting to see if that was enough to overcome a rod's tendency to tumble end over end.

mrfatso
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Skippy's List Mar 2, 2014 12:36:22 GMT

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Post by mrfatso on Mar 2, 2014 12:36:22 GMT

Mar 2, 2014 10:26:27 GMT memeengine said:

Mar 2, 2014 3:12:33 GMT ironhold said:

So - can you really make a wearable kilt out of six boxes (or less) of fruit leather?

I would think that the first step would be forming an acceptable definition of "wearable". Something that you could put on once? Put on and move around? Put on, move around, take off, put on again...etc ? How much coverage would the kilt need to provide?

So - "blank" + "cleaning rod" = squirrel sticker?

Sounds very much along the same lines as the "musket + ramrod" myth, which I believe appeared more than once on the old boards. Although, presumably, the cleaning rod might engage the rifling and therefore benefit from some spin as it left the barrel. It would be interesting to see if that was enough to overcome a rod's tendency to tumble end over end.

Given that a kilt consists of about 4-8 yards of cloth in a bolt about 34 inches wide, that's quite a few fruit roll ups, and if they are what I presume they are,msimilar to Kellogg Fruut Winders in this country, would be impossible to pleat in the correct manner to make a true kilt.