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Navy Sells Itself with Song and Dance Ad

Thu Feb 26, 8:05 AM ET

TOKYO (Reuters) - Seven actors dressed as sailors strut across the deck of a ship singing "Nippon Seaman Ship, Seaman Ship, For Love...For Peace."

A revival of the disco group "Village People?"

No, a new commercial by Japan's navy aimed at boosting its popularity as the military embarks on a risky operation in Iraq  in which ground troops have grabbed most of the attention.

The ad begins with a close-up of the navy's rising sun ensign, then shows the singing sailors gyrating.

"I Love Japan, I Love Peace. The Maritime Self-Defense Force," says a voice-over at the end.

A spokesman for the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF), as the navy is known, said some feared the ad might seem frivolous, but market research converted the naysayers.

"Awareness of the Self-Defense Forces...is growing along with the dispatch to Iraq," said Lieutenant Commander Akira Ohta.

"But how many are actually aware of the MSDF? There are a lot of young people and women who don't seem interested," he said, when asked to explain the reason for commercial. It will be aired from Monday on giant street screens in central Tokyo.

Army, air force and navy personnel are being dispatched to help rebuild Iraq in the Japanese military's biggest and most dangerous mission since World War II. Critics say the operation violates the nation's pacifist constitution.

In The Navy

The Village People

Where can you find pleasure

Search the world for treasure

Learn science technology

Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true

On the land or on the sea

Where can you learn to fly

Play in sports and skin dive

Study oceanography

Sign of for the big band

Or sit in the grandstand

When your team and others meet

In the navy

Yes, you can sail the seven seas

In the navy

Yes, you can put your mind at ease

In the navy

Come on now, people, make a stand

In the navy, in the navy

Can't you see we need a hand

In the navy

Come on, protect the motherland

In the navy

Come on and join your fellow man

In the navy

Come on people, and make a stand

In the navy, in the navy, in the navy (in the navy)

They want you, they want you

They want you as a new recruit

If you like adventure

Don't you wait to enter

The recruiting office fast

Don't you hesitate

There is no need to wait

They're signing up new seamen fast

Maybe you are too young

To join up today

Bout don't you worry 'bout a thing

For I'm sure there will be

Always a good navy

Protecting the land and sea

In the navy

Yes, you can sail the seven seas

In the navy

Yes, you can put your mind at ease

In the navy

Come on now, people, make a stand

In the navy, in the navy

Can't you see we need a hand

In the navy

Come on, protect the motherland

In the navy

Come on and join your fellow man

In the navy

Come on people, and make a stand

In the navy, in the navy, in the navy (in the navy)

They want you, they want you

They want you as a new recruit

Who me?

They want you, they want you

They want you as a new recruit

But, but but I'm afraid of water.

Hey, hey look

Man, I get seasick even watchin' it on TV!

They want you, they want you in the navy

Oh my goodness.

What am I gonna do in a submarine?

They want you, they want you in the navy

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something my sis emailed me

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P 101503Z FEBRUARY 04 PSN 740648J31

FM COMNAVSURFORCE SAN DIEGO CA//N001//

TO COMPHIBGRU

NAS KEY WEST FL//90//

NAS BRUNSWICK ME//60//

NAS KEFLAVIK IC//70//

NAS KEFLAVIK IC//50//

CINCLANTFLT NORFOLK VA//N11//

CINCPACFLT PEARL HARBOR HI//N1/N21/N11//

ALNAVSURFPAC//JJJ//

ALNAVSURFLANT//JJJ//

NAVAIRWARCENWPNDIV PT MUGU CA//311200E/31410E//

NAVORDSAFSECACT INDIAN HEAD MD//N2//

NAVORDSAFSECACT ESSOLANT NORFOLK VA//N712A//

NAMTRAGRU PENSACOLA FL//2206//

USSTRATCOM OFFUTT AFB NE//J416// BT

UNCLAS

SUBJ/ SAFE WORK PRACTICES IN POTENTIALLY FLAMMABLE ATMOSPHERES//

MSGID/GENADMIN/CNSF/-/MAY// RMKS/

1. A PETTY OFFICER WAS TREATED AT A MILITARY TREATMENT FACILITY (MTF)

AFTER COMPLAINING OF SHORTNESS OF BREATH AFTER WORKING IN AN ENCLOSED

WORKSPACE WITH SEVERAL OTHER PERSONNEL. THE DINING FACILITY HAD SERVED A MEXICAN MEAL FOR LUNCH, CAUSING SUSPECTED HIGH METHANE AND SULFITE LEVELS IN THE ATMOSPHERE FROM THE CREW'S FLATULENCE.

2. MANY NAVY PERSONNEL WORK IN FACILITIES AND ON SHIPS WHERE FLATULENCE MAY EXIST, AND, DUE TO MISSION URGENCY, ARE NOT ABLE TO IMMEDIATELY VACATE THE SPACE SHOULD THE AIR BECOME FOUL. THIS MISHAP SERVES AS A STRONG REMINDER THAT THE EXPRESSION OF FLATULENCE CAN BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IN THESE AREAS, UNLESS THEY ARE SPECIFICALLY LISTED AS INTRINSICALLY SAFE. THE NAVY HAS DEVELOPED THE FOLLOWING SAFE WORK PRACTICE TO ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM: EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, THE PRACTICE OF EXPELLING FLATULENCE, COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS "FARTING," "BREAKING WIND," OR "PASSING GAS," IS PROHIBITED ABOARD ALL NAVAL SHIPS, BOATS, VEHICLES, AIRCRAFT, AND SHORE INSTALLATIONS.

3. THIS REGULATION APPLIES NOT ONLY TO AUDIBLE FLATULENCE, OR INCIDENTS THAT ARE CLAIMED BY THEIR PERPETRATOR, BUT ALSO TO COVERT EVENTS SUCH AS "DEADLY WHISPERS," "CHEEK SNEAKERS," "AIR DUSTINGS."

4. UNAUTHORIZED EXPULSION OF FLATULENCE IS TO BE PUNISHED UNDER THE UCMJ. "HE WHO SMELT IT DEALT IT" IS CONSIDERED SUFFICIENT BASIS FOR PROSECUTION. "I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS GOING TO STINK" OR "I ATE AT THE GALLEY" IS NOT TO BE ACCEPTED AS AN EXCUSE FOR FAILURE TO CONTROL ONESELF.

5. COMMANDS ARE INSTRUCTED TO ENSURE KNOWN GAS PRODUCING FOODS ARE AVOIDED AT THE DINING FACILITIES. MEXICAN THEME MEALS, NAVY OR BAKED BEANS, CHILI, CABBAGE, AND EGG SALAD ARE NO LONGER AUTHORIZED MENU ITEMS.

6. THE LIGHTING OF FLATULENCE WITH ANY TYPE OF OPEN FLAME IS STILL

PROHIBITED.//

BT

0769

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this just came down the wire.

Try this soon, before Google fixes its site: =A0

1) Go to www.Google.com.

2) Type in (but don't hit enter): "weapons of mass destruction".

3) =A0Hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button, instead of the normal "Google search" button.

4) READ CAREFULLY what appears to be a normal ERROR message.

Make sure you read the whole error message. Someone at Google apparently has a sense of humor.

Kinda lame but was for a good chuckle.

Robert

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No offence but i found that google thing out a few months ago, very funny though.

There was a really funny video clip called Mentos, but the site is down.

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Secret strange Belarus Modern Army weapons - after last modernization its new  battlefield unit : Commander and four soldiers.

It is no funy because NATO have nothing in oposite for this.

1997298.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=C56E7E4EBD8E3C9203DF3FB363249274.jpg

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It is no funy because NATO have nothing in oposite for this.

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp....274.jpg

pfft.

10-11%20inch%20bone.jpg

of course, it depends on how NATO will go about acquring this counter measure. if gone through normal channels,

1. there will be announcement for the countermeasure project

2. grants are offered

3. scientist/engineers work

4. first trial held - fails miserably

5. second grant, bigger

6. fails.

7. repeat process a few more times, add some political wrangling.

8. finally gets M k-9 countermeasure after 10 years.

or just use what's available in private sector wink_o.giftounge_o.gif

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If you look around the text when the pic has been zoomed in, your can see tiny distortions which is typical of 'shopped text in pictures.

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Yeah, it looks like it took a short trip through a photo editing program before it was uploaded tounge_o.gif . Always look carefully before unleashing the attack dogs.

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