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Wonder how many kids cried after getting the Dan Quayle card.

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Big Mo"

Who? What the fuck.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The USS Missouri was known as Big Mo, apparently. I guess the guy in the pic was on that ship idk shrug-outta-hecks

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Could also be that they call him that for short since his name is Mubarak.

He's from the Kuwaiti Air Force. He gets a mention in this WaPo article:

https://archive.is/C0ORN

[–] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As a kid I never knew who Dan Quail was except that his name was used for the lowest rank in Civilization II. I never usually scored higher than this.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember that, pretty solid burn from the usually lib Civilization series.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

The severity of the Civilization series's global warming effects got less severe as global warming became more politicized.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most fampusly known for cirrecting a child's spelling at a spelling bee to "Potatoe"

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And beefing with television characters

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

H.W. Bush: owned by Bart Simpson

Quayle: owned by Murphy Brown

Wonder why they didn’t get re-elected

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

He was basically Kamala Harris for Gen Xers

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

That Dan Quayle card is no Jack Kennedy card

[–] DerEwigeAtheist@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is an extremly fascinating piece of nedia, I only ever knew these for the football world coup, or the like. Did they sell these to children?

[–] btfod@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Children of all ages, yes

[–] someone@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

My brother, last I checked, still has two mint Saddam Hussein cards.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Colin Powell was OP with his anthrax false flag attack.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

This is an earlier version, they introduced that buff in 2003.

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

You can debuff him with Gulf War Syndrome, it stacks. It's balanced if you play right, just saying.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I feel like the actual demo for this kind of shit back then was like retired enlisted, that after spending 20 years on military bases, eating powdered eggs, handing out socks and inventorying laundry detergent, don't really know what to do with themselves or their days, so they buy shit like this, curate it, and keep it in a memorabilia area of the room their wife isn't allowed to clean.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Verhoven media are just documentaries from a slightly different timeline that leaked into our reality.

[–] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

No baudrillard emote, damn

[–] neroiscariot@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a Stormin Norman card...but, as any MTG fan knows, Storm is OP

[–] WELCOMETHRILLHO@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

The Extended Perfect (Desert) Storm.

Playing against Mind’s Desire back in the day was one of the most demoralizing experiences I’ve ever had, and I’ve been playing competitively since ~Planeshift.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

The Gulf War Did Not Take Place by Jean Baudrillard explores how the media spectacle took over and became "the war" as much as the real war.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Every Westerner a little Eichmann

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Wonder how many kids cried after getting the Dan Quayle card.

Literally

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Can we get each card as an emoji please?