Please explain this bumper sticker: Too close for missiles;

blondeatlast

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Wed Sep-10-03 06:05 PM
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Please explain this bumper sticker: Too close for missiles;

use a gun.

I'm sure I hate the emotion, but I haven't got a clue about it. Saw it on my way home from work on a new, shiny, black Lexus ES300 (same car as my hubby, that's how I know).

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Kamika

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Wed Sep-10-03 06:06 PM
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1. *gone*

Edited on Wed Sep-10-03 06:20 PM by Kamika

I edited this because i gave the freepers way too much credit in their meaning of their stickers

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Demobrat

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Wed Sep-10-03 06:14 PM
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2. If I didn't know better

I would think that it was advocating shooting arabs.

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Kamika

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Wed Sep-10-03 06:16 PM
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3. thats horrible

If thats what it means .. isnt that against the law in some way?

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blondeatlast

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Wed Sep-10-03 06:18 PM
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5. Sad to say, that's what I thought. Surely not; God, I hope not.

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markbark

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Wed Sep-10-03 06:17 PM
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4. Think Air to Air combat.....

Edited on Wed Sep-10-03 06:21 PM by markbark

there is a minimum range for firing a missile. (Usually inside a mile)
When inside this range, you must switch to cannons (guns)

I'm not REALLY a pilot, I just play one online ;)
(Unabashed flight-sim junkie!)

Methinks this fellow is suffering from a wee bit of road rage.
My suggestion to him would be "Switch to decaf"

--MAB

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blondeatlast

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Wed Sep-10-03 06:22 PM
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8. Well, that is somewhat comforting. Thanks.

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HawkerHurricane

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Wed Sep-10-03 06:18 PM
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6. Top Gun reference

One of the lines in the movie, during one of the exercise dogfights, has Tom Cruise (Maverick) tell Goose
"Too close for missiles, switching to guns!"
with a close up of his thumb flipping the switch to do exactly that.

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MnFats

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Wed Sep-10-03 06:28 PM
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9. Speaking of Top Gun, help me ID the film in which Q. Tarantino..

....plays a guy at a party. he is ranting to a couple of party-goers, I think in the kitchen of some house, about the homosexual subtext between Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer. It's a riot, but I can't remember where it came from...

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rucky

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Wed Sep-10-03 06:34 PM
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11. Four Rooms?

i think...QT is a distant memory

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AGiordino

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Wed Sep-10-03 06:18 PM
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7. Refer(s) to Israeli Executive Actions?

i.e. the recent elimination of Hamas Officials by helicopter/jet delivered missles? Just a possibility. That is the only thing that it calls to mind.

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Kamika

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Wed Sep-10-03 06:31 PM
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10. not a chance

Thats a WAY too complex analogy for a freeper

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