25 Mar 03 07:03, Mad Moose Mike wrote to The Three Mooseketeers:
 MMM>>> Why jump out of a perfectly good, correctly-operating airplane?
 MMM>>> This is one Moose that doesn't feel any great urge to trust his
 MMM>>> life to a silk hanky; and that's despite the Rocky & Bullwinkle
 MMM>>> cartoons...

 TM>> You would be surprised what is considered to be a
"perfectly good"
 TM>> airplane!

 MMM> True enuff; until recently, the Canuckian government was claiming 
 MMM> that the Sea Kings were "perfectly good" aircraft...

We're trying to pawn off the Sea Kings on the folks fighting the
"irregular forces" who are wreaking havoc in southern Iraq.

From watching the ads on the evening news we know what "occasional
irregularity" can do to make one grouchy and warlike, so we don't take
this stinky question of irregular forces lightly. 

We had considered firing laxatives into stubborn pockets of resistance in
Iraq from guided missiles, pruning away resistance or even launching a
full-scale "Operation Bran for Basra" or "Operation Ex-Lax
Storm", but then we realised what a truly powerful weapon resides
unheralded in the northern arsenal.

Forget about ambush suicide bombers and all the rest, when these Iraqi
"irregular forces" see a Sea King suddenly falling out of the sky
at them from tens of thousands of feet overhead, they'll soil their armour
in no time.

--- Army Surplus