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Paper Tank Only Fires Cheap Furniture, Supermarket Coupons
Posted by Jesus Diaz at 4:30 AM on October 11, 2008
Being the blind bat that I am, I first got excited when I saw this M1 Abrams tank made out of paper because I thought those were comic-book pages. Is that Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos? Maybe coloured Milton Canniff's Steve Canyons? Doug Murray's 'Nam? Then I zoomed in and I realised what it was.
Catalogs schmatalogs and newspapers ads. A good metaphor of the brutality and power of marketing. Maybe the killing nature of consumers markets getting into recession. Or the need for war economy these days. Whatever it is, it looks pretty. [The Contaminated]
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t3knomanser
Posted 5:47 AM 11/10/08
Yeah, the comic books would be way cooler.
t3knomanser
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
Posted 5:43 AM 11/10/08
@OMG! Ponies!: Hey, well they sort of used paper weaponry in Clear and Present Danger. :P
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
RE-L
Posted 5:40 AM 11/10/08
Fireball!
RE-L
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 5:38 AM 11/10/08
Sen. Obama's Plan To Cut Military Spending
(sorry, I'm a Dem but that is too damned easy)
OMG! Ponies!
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
Posted 5:37 AM 11/10/08
Oh DARPA, you cheeky bastards.
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
SomeoneUKno
Posted 5:35 AM 11/10/08
Quick! Get the water grenades!
SomeoneUKno
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 5:32 AM 11/10/08
Does it have ablative armor?
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
PipeRifle
Posted 6:41 AM 11/10/08
@CaliBoom: Yeah, I don't see the idea going anywhere. :D
Alternate joke: they proposed a stealth paper airplane idea but no one saw it taking off.
PipeRifle
CaliBoom
Posted 6:28 AM 11/10/08
it's definitely stealthy
CaliBoom
cancrman
Posted 7:03 AM 11/10/08
This is ancient. Even for non-Internet news:
[gargles.net]
cancrman
EricAlder
Posted 6:58 AM 11/10/08
They even had enough newspaper ads left to make a nifty backdrop!
EricAlder
balloondoggle
Posted 6:46 AM 11/10/08
Death by a thousand paper cuts!
balloondoggle
[x7productions]
Posted 7:21 AM 11/10/08
war economy ftw. it worked in mgs4 should work irl.
[x7productions]
Kanon
Posted 7:10 AM 11/10/08
Could have been a Paper King Tiger....
Kanon
peetar
Posted 9:20 AM 11/10/08
It is probably a cliche' statement about how consumerism drives war or something equally as lame.
peetar