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As I think I have mentioned beofre, I was scheduled to travel to China over Easter, as part of a school trip for those studying the Chinese culture. Anyway, SARS kicked in, and the trip got cancelled, I was down about $3000, I was not happy.
But then a rumour grew, one that we could move the trip to Vietnam, and for a few hundred bucks, we move the trip and all our travel arrangements. So, in a little over a month, I'll fly to Vietnam. I'll see Saigon and basically the whole country.
Unfortunately there is no helicopter ride through the villages with 'Ride of The Valkyries' playing.
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Watch out, those gooks are sneaky bastards. Bayonet every corpse and shoot the trees, but be sure to have fun!
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Sea Skimmer wrote: Bayonet every corpse and shoot the trees, but be sure to have fun!
I seriously doubt they'll let him do this on a school trip. They certainly never let me.
OK, there never were neither gooks nor corpses on our school trips anyway, but there were enough trees to easily compensate for that.
Well, if I ever had had anything to shoot them with.

Anyway, good to see you get to go on your trip, afterall,Gandalf.
Have an interesting and hopefully gook-and-corpse-free trip :wink:
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Have fun and take care but don't play with the hookers :D
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Faram wrote:Have fun and take care but don't play with the hookers :D
Most of those are probably left overs from the war.
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Watch out in the woods Gandalf!

I've left some Claymore mines there... :lol:
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If you wanna make that 3,000 back plus about 10,000$ more just get some Cambodian Red and smuggle it back with you and sell it for a few hundered bucks a ounce :D

Also search crashed helicopter sites for old US military surplus! sells good!
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Re: Nam

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Jaris Merc wrote:If you wanna make that 3,000 back plus about 10,000$ more just get some Cambodian Red and smuggle it back with you and sell it for a few hundered bucks a ounce :D
It is agains the policy of this board to advocate smuggling, selling or using controlled substances.
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I've been to Vietnam, luckily I can blend in better than the average American :D

It's a good place to visit, though I spent half the time at my grandfather's farm in the Mekong Delta.
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Vympel wrote:"Me fucky sucky. Me love you LONG time"
I thought of this exact line. :D
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errr ummm

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sorry.... forgot and i cant edit this on this board! quick some admin delete it!

anyways... get surplus or snag a AK-47 or two on the way.
If I die in Vietnam.
Write a letter to my mom.
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Putting smoke on Ho Chi Minh!

Im a sore loser, ok? We need to stop the Iraq and Korea shit and go re invade Vietnam and kick some commie ass!
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Gandalf wrote:
Faram wrote:Have fun and take care but don't play with the hookers :D
That was never an option, my gf's best friend is coming.

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What a bunch of cliched stereotypes in this thread.

Aww, fuck it!

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Ok, how many of you have seen Travel Sick? Is it Vietnam where there's the golf course right on the DMZ? I SOOOOOOOO want to do that one day! Too awesome!
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Zaia wrote:Ok, how many of you have seen Travel Sick? Is it Vietnam where there's the golf course right on the DMZ? I SOOOOOOOO want to do that one day! Too awesome!
Isn't that South Korea? Vietnam doesn't have a DMZ. Unless there's one on the border with China or something that I'm not aware of. :P
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Zaia wrote:Ok, how many of you have seen Travel Sick? Is it Vietnam where there's the golf course right on the DMZ? I SOOOOOOOO want to do that one day! Too awesome!
If you want to keep all your limbs intact, whatever you do.... stay on the course.
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Remember: shoot everybody.

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There, I think that just about exhausts the supply of relevant Vietnam War movie quotes.
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Vympel wrote:
Zaia wrote:Ok, how many of you have seen Travel Sick? Is it Vietnam where there's the golf course right on the DMZ? I SOOOOOOOO want to do that one day! Too awesome!
Isn't that South Korea? Vietnam doesn't have a DMZ. Unless there's one on the border with China or something that I'm not aware of. :P
Oh, werd, you're right. Sorry. I is smrt. :D
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Zaia wrote:
Oh, werd, you're right. Sorry. I is smrt. :D
For a second I thought you were gonna say duh Vym, it's from a movie- coz I don't know what travel sick is :)
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Vympel wrote:
Zaia wrote:Oh, werd, you're right. Sorry. I is smrt. :D
For a second I thought you were gonna say duh Vym, it's from a movie- coz I don't know what travel sick is :)
Oh, no, I wouldn't say such things to you, dahlink. :wink:

Travel Sick is an awesome British TV show that's on Comedy Central sometimes (I don't know when it comes on, but I watch it whenever I stumble upon it). It's really fucking hilarious. The host is sent to different places around the world and given things he needs to pass off. It sounds like a reality TV show or something, but it's not.

Gah, it's just really damn cool. 8)
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