[via Very Demotivational]
To be bestowed only to honor acts of extreme bacon-worthiness.
Do not hand this out lightly like it’s some sort of Nobel Peace Prize.
[via Very Demotivational]
To be bestowed only to honor acts of extreme bacon-worthiness.
Do not hand this out lightly like it’s some sort of Nobel Peace Prize.
That is actually a Bacon Mobius strip. I still want it bad even if it is dimensionally challenged bacon.
“Do not hand this out lightly like it’s some sort of Nobel Peace Prize.”
No, but it IS an infinite “Noble Piece Prize!”
Ba da ding!
Excuse me. Some of us don’t EAT pork. Hateful, exclusionary racists the lot of ya.
Darn, liberals are so annoying it’s not even funny to imitate them sometimes.
That’s obviously much more valuable than a Nobel Peace Prize. I mean even Obama can get a Nobel Peace Prize, but how many can get the Infinite Bacon Award?
Jimmy brings up and interesting point. Is there an image with a negative infinity that we can give out for puns?
So if we get a liberal troll do we give them infinite broccoli?
hey hwuu,
Mobius bacon strip means you don’t have to flip it in the pan when frying it, cause it only has one side.
Some pig.
@rodney – only if you had a Mobius pan to fry it.
@Zach – the Puntato! (Irish ones are best.)
@CarolyntheBroccoliLover, I’m an expert on growing broccoli. You can’t have my broccoli!
Best of all, even when it shrinks with cooking, it’s still infinite!
Harvey, with respect, it’s not the “Congressional Medal of Honor”, it’s the “Medal of Honor”. Congress nominates a candidate; the President awards the Medal of Honor.
All MOH Citations are listed on the US Army site. Posthumous awards are denoted by a tiny asterisk.
Best not to sully the Bacon Medal of Honor with an association with Congress anyway.
No one at IMAO – not a commenter or blogger – has ever won the INFINITE BACON! award.
I’m not sure it’s winnable. I mean, that thing is out there.
Burma – duly noted.
I was inspired by all of this bacon to see what is at bacon.com
Nothing…a wasted domain.
🙁
It’s also Arabic for hell. But even better ‘cuz it’s in English.
@Keln: Now that you have extra bacon viewing time on your hands, do visit http://www.history.army.mil/moh.html
You’ll discover that they were all our greatest generations, especially the maligned generation who fought in the War in Southeast Asia. A large number of posthumous awards for that war were awarded to men who jumped on live grenades to save their men. That’s not exactly consistent with Oliver Stone’s slanderous work.
It’s obvious that this is one of my many soapboxes, but I think Americans should spend just a bit of time reading citations. The citations are more personal than a name etched in stone.
So, whenever I talk about the citations, I usually read a few myself. This is a small part of the first citation I read at random from the War in Southeast Asia:
Okay, #3, ya never heard of beef bacon? It’s all the rage at Johnny Rockets in Kuwait City, halal and all y’all.
Rooting around in MOH citations is quite illuminating. What behaviors do the services reward? For the Army and Marines, and Naval enlisted, it seems that most of the awards relate to saving fellow soldiers, not bringing death and destruction on the enemy, except as it relates to saving others. For Pile-its it’s mostly about racking up a score as that’s pretty much the only metric available and for senior officers (I’m looking at YOU, MacArthur, you bonus army bastard) it seems to relate to being too high up in the food chain to be cashiered. Since the egregious handing out of bling following the mini-campaign of Grenada it seems we’ve been pretty parsimonious in handing out serious attaboys. Given the number of troops involved and the length of time in action I find it odd that so few upper tier awards for gallantry in action have been awarded since 9/11. It’s almost as if we’re systemically trying to avoid being accused of handing out roadguard ribbons. Either that or SSG’s and LT’s don’t get taught how to wright acceptable award citations (they’re the folk most likely to be aware of the stuff their guys are doing). After 20yrs active duty I can guaran(coddam)tee that that’s the truth.
@Carolynthemommy you can have a Mutton, lettuce and tomato then. May the mutton be just right.
@jsallison: Thank you for your service. Not to blow any smoke, I do often tell folks that the non-coms are the backbone of our armed forces, and they are what has saved our bacon when liberals gut our military before committing them to combat later on.
As one who has not served, I do my level best never to personally question the service or citations of those who have served. I defer to the wisdom of those, such as yourself, to make fair judgments.
That said, I’d like to point to the heroism of FISHER, BERNARD FRANCIS (Maj., USAF), not to refute what you’ve said, but just because I know that Maj. Fisher had b*lls I could only wish for. To sum, his wingman was forced to parachute into enemy territory. Spotting a short, disused airstrip nearby, he motioned to his downed wingman — now being approached by VC — toward the airstrip. Maj. Fisher landed his Skyraider on the short strip, climbed out to help his wingman into his Skyraider and flew him back to base. His story is priceless.
His is listed on the MOH site for Vietnam A-L (If I link, I’ll be moderated)
The full story is at http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070228-013.pdf
One of my favorite pilot stories doesn’t involve an MOH, but it does involve my favorite handgun, the Colt model 1911A. Again, a link to the story sends me to the moderation bin, but go to ‘sightm1911 dot com’ and look for 2d Lt. Owen J. Baggett in the “Myths and Legends” category. 2d Lt. Baggett shot down a Japanese Zero with his Model 1911A while he was floating to earth from his parachute.
Obviously, I could go on. The thing is, I believe that Americans should hear more of these stories, and I love to share them.
Harvey & Frank J.: Blast! I did my best to avoid the moderation bin, but I somehow bounced it in.
Please moderate. I know this post has essentially passed into the Pleistocene era in terms of IMAO posts, but it’ll humor me nonetheless.
Does anyone else write longer “please moderate” comments?
Permit me to suggest that “Bacon!” be viewed as the equivalent of the Distinguished Service Cross and that the IMAO equivalent of the MOH be “Chuck!” (as in Norris.)
Bacon! is an impressive award, however, everyone, in possession of their faculties, would agree that it is trumped by the indisputable impressiveness of Chuck Norris. Only the highest display of blog intrepidity should be deemed worthy of “Chuck!”
I would also recommend that subsequent “Bacon!” awards be signified by steak clusters. Medium-well for the first subsequent, well-done for all other subsequents.