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8/6/2008 5:27:21 PM EDT
This stems from watching Generation Kill.  the Marines say they are bad luck.  I googled and it says the same thing. they are bad luck, but never goes into why.  What happened that made them unlucky?  
8/6/2008 5:28:15 PM EDT
[#1]
they ain't skittles
8/6/2008 5:29:42 PM EDT
[#2]
Have Charms been pulled from MRE's yet?
8/6/2008 5:30:07 PM EDT
[#3]
Because the plastic wrap sticks to them, is impossible to get off and results in you getting drilled in the brainpan because you were picking at a piece of candy and not paying attention?


Or not.
8/6/2008 5:30:48 PM EDT
[#4]
I guess they've been in a bunch of ration packs over the years, and naturally, people who ate during war died in combat.
8/6/2008 5:33:35 PM EDT
[#5]
Because when you're in the field and someone eats them it always pours down rain on your ass and you're completely soaked!!
8/6/2008 5:36:00 PM EDT
[#6]

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Because when you're in the field and someone eats them it always pours down rain on your ass and you're completely soaked!!


Dont eat the charms!!!  Or do it and see what happens to you at the hands of your own platoon!
8/6/2008 5:37:34 PM EDT
[#7]
They're bad luck cause they taste like shit.
8/6/2008 5:38:19 PM EDT
[#8]
Never heard this. I dont think they are bad luck, but they certainly aren't worth taking the energy to open either
8/6/2008 5:39:50 PM EDT
[#9]
Because they don't have canned apricots anymore.  
Something has to take the blame for the bad juju.
8/6/2008 5:40:29 PM EDT
[#10]
because the kid from the Life cereal commercial choked to death on them.  
8/6/2008 5:43:02 PM EDT
[#11]

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Never heard this. I dont think they are bad luck, but they certainly aren't worth taking the energy to open either


+1  Who was the moron that designed the packaging on them?
8/6/2008 5:45:59 PM EDT
[#12]
Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.
8/6/2008 5:53:03 PM EDT
[#13]

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Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.



Are you trying to tell me Chuck Norris DOESN'T have a third fist under his beard?  
8/6/2008 5:56:14 PM EDT
[#14]

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Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.



The charms superstition didnt come from the internet.
8/6/2008 5:58:10 PM EDT
[#15]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Because when you're in the field and someone eats them it always pours down rain on your ass and you're completely soaked!!


Dont eat the charms!!!  Or do it and see what happens to you at the hands of your own platoon!


Budda got no balls.  We ate charms all the time and we never got rain when we wanted it.
8/6/2008 5:59:08 PM EDT
[#16]

Quoted:

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Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.
The charms superstition didnt come from the internet.
+1
But the guys I know that've been in the sandbox would peg the kids that got too close to the HMMWVs in the head with Charms.

Kharn
8/6/2008 6:00:17 PM EDT
[#17]
becasue there is no such thing as a "lucky" charm...
8/6/2008 6:01:15 PM EDT
[#18]

Quoted:

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Because when you're in the field and someone eats them it always pours down rain on your ass and you're completely soaked!!


Dont eat the charms!!!  Or do it and see what happens to you at the hands of your own platoon!


Budda got no balls.  We ate charms all the time and we never got rain when we wanted it.


Its not just rain, its bad luck.  The catch is that bad things ALLWAYS happen when youre a Marine Corps grunt.  But its conveinient to blame it on the charms.
8/6/2008 6:02:51 PM EDT
[#19]

Quoted:

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Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.



The charms superstition didnt come from the internet.



You left out a part of your explanation there.
8/6/2008 6:05:15 PM EDT
[#20]

Quoted:

Quoted:

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Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.



The charms superstition didnt come from the internet.



You left out a part of your explanation there.


I have no Idea where it came from, but I'd be willing to wager that it came from before 'teh internetz'
8/6/2008 6:15:29 PM EDT
[#21]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.



Are you trying to tell me Chuck Norris DOESN'T have a third fist under his beard?  


No, that one is true.  I saw it on "Family Guy".
8/6/2008 6:17:32 PM EDT
[#22]

Quoted:

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Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.



The charms superstition didnt come from the internet.


I didn't say it did.  I said the internet makes silly shit become legend.

BTW, where, exactly, are we discussing this topic?
8/6/2008 6:31:35 PM EDT
[#23]
They are bad luck cause everytime with the exception of once that I was eating an MRE even CONTAINING Charms...we got mortared.
8/6/2008 6:34:21 PM EDT
[#24]

Quoted:

Quoted:

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Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.



The charms superstition didnt come from the internet.


I didn't say it did.  I said the internet makes silly shit become legend.

BTW, where, exactly, are we discussing this topic?



1st: I'm not sure Im following you.  You are saying that your first post didnt have any bearing on the OP?

2nd: What did you mean by where?
8/6/2008 6:36:25 PM EDT
[#25]
Yeah, I googled it too and found some obscure Marine webpage that said that, and also that apricots were forbbiden in tanks.
8/6/2008 6:39:23 PM EDT
[#26]
Ive never even heard of charms candy?
8/6/2008 6:45:00 PM EDT
[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:

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Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.



The charms superstition didnt come from the internet.


I didn't say it did.  I said the internet makes silly shit become legend.

BTW, where, exactly, are we discussing this topic?



1st: I'm not sure Im following you.  You are saying that your first post didnt have any bearing on the OP?

2nd: What did you mean by where?


OK:

Silly shit ("Charms are bad luck") is developed, however.  Silly shit makes it's way onto the internet.  Silly shit gets repeated, over and over.  Silly shit becomes legend.

1. OP mentioned googling, the source of all things internet.

2. Where are we discussing this?  The INTERNET.
8/6/2008 6:45:50 PM EDT
[#28]

Quoted:
Ive never even heard of charms candy?


Charms Blow Pops?

They are made just north of here, in Covington, Tennessee.
8/6/2008 6:46:00 PM EDT
[#29]

Quoted:
Yeah, I googled it too and found some obscure Marine webpage that said that, and also that apricots were forbbiden in tanks.


The YATYAS boys would have fits if you had apricots.

We grunts didn't care.
8/6/2008 6:47:54 PM EDT
[#30]
I have no idea but after I got through ROTC there will be no charms allowed in my platoon.
8/6/2008 6:48:39 PM EDT
[#31]

Quoted:

Quoted:

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Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.



The charms superstition didnt come from the internet.


I didn't say it did.  I said the internet makes silly shit become legend.

BTW, where, exactly, are we discussing this topic?



1st: I'm not sure Im following you.  You are saying that your first post didnt have any bearing on the OP?

2nd: What did you mean by where?


OK:

Silly shit ("Charms are bad luck") is developed, however.  Silly shit makes it's way onto the internet.  Silly shit gets repeated, over and over.  Silly shit becomes legend.

1. OP mentioned googling, the source of all things internet.

2. Where are we discussing this?  The INTERNET.



Thanks for clearing up the second one.

I still stand by my assertion that charms were "bad luck" well before the internet.
8/6/2008 6:52:06 PM EDT
[#32]

Quoted:

Quoted:

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Quoted:

Quoted:

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Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.



The charms superstition didnt come from the internet.


I didn't say it did.  I said the internet makes silly shit become legend.

BTW, where, exactly, are we discussing this topic?



1st: I'm not sure Im following you.  You are saying that your first post didnt have any bearing on the OP?

2nd: What did you mean by where?


OK:

Silly shit ("Charms are bad luck") is developed, however.  Silly shit makes it's way onto the internet.  Silly shit gets repeated, over and over.  Silly shit becomes legend.

1. OP mentioned googling, the source of all things internet.

2. Where are we discussing this?  The INTERNET.



Thanks for clearing up the second one.

I still stand by my assertion that charms were "bad luck" well before the internet.


Yeah, googling it indicates it goes back at least to Gulf War I.  And, those aren't "Blow Pops", they look like Jolly Ranchers or something.  I got out in 1989, I never saw any of them when I was in.
8/6/2008 6:55:53 PM EDT
[#33]
8/6/2008 6:56:07 PM EDT
[#34]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.



Are you trying to tell me Chuck Norris DOESN'T have a third fist under his beard?  


Nope. Charms. Even more deadly.
8/6/2008 7:18:39 PM EDT
[#35]

Quoted:

Quoted:

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Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.



Are you trying to tell me Chuck Norris DOESN'T have a third fist under his beard?  


Nope. Charms. Even more deadly.




good one!
8/6/2008 7:20:02 PM EDT
[#36]
I know that Charms have been around for a very long time in US military packages.

My dad had some sort of Army Air Corps survival pack that he brought home from WWII.  In it were signal mirror, box kite for radio antenna, machete, other rations, first aid stuff, and CHARMS.  I remember eating some of them in about 1960-62.  There were terrible and very stale, but free candy for a kid..........
8/6/2008 7:20:48 PM EDT
[#37]
Skittles are way better.  
8/6/2008 7:21:53 PM EDT
[#38]

Quoted:

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Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.



Are you trying to tell me Chuck Norris DOESN'T have a third fist under his beard?  


Silly you, it's just below his bellybutton.
8/6/2008 7:25:02 PM EDT
[#39]

Quoted:

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Thanks to the internet, every time someone comes up with silly shit nowadays, it tends to become legend.



The charms superstition didnt come from the internet.


I didn't say it did.  I said the internet makes silly shit become legend.

BTW, where, exactly, are we discussing this topic?



1st: I'm not sure Im following you.  You are saying that your first post didnt have any bearing on the OP?

2nd: What did you mean by where?


OK:

Silly shit ("Charms are bad luck") is developed, however.  Silly shit makes it's way onto the internet.  Silly shit gets repeated, over and over.  Silly shit becomes legend.

1. OP mentioned googling, the source of all things internet.

2. Where are we discussing this?  The INTERNET.



Thanks for clearing up the second one.

I still stand by my assertion that charms were "bad luck" well before the internet.


Yeah, googling it indicates it goes back at least to Gulf War I.  And, those aren't "Blow Pops", they look like Jolly Ranchers or something.  I got out in 1989, I never saw any of them when I was in.



Same company makes both blow pops and these..
8/6/2008 7:38:06 PM EDT
[#40]
So no one really knows?

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