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Gents, This is an instructional message, complete with visual aids, on how to get a group of Marines, all of whom are combat veterans with several obviously having been wounded, to smile for a photograph. These photos were taken this past Thursday at a cookout (steaks, burgers, hot dogs, all the sides) which the Marine Corps League does monthly at Bethesda National Naval Medical Center. You will please note that in the lower of the two photos that upon the photographer's request, several of the Marines actually managed to crack a smile prior to the shutter being loosed upon them. However, the majority of them maintain their warrior visage, the common term for said ferocious appearance being the "war face". Upon viewing the top photo (change slides if you please, perfesser), you will note that a general mien of mirth pervades the assemblage, something obviously having tickled their collective funny bone, thereby reducing these stoic warriors to a group resembling that of a gaggle of giggling teenage schoolgirls. What could have reduced them to such a state in an instant? Mayhap that it was their ol' Uncle Mikey, who snuck up behind the photographer an instant prior to his taking the "giggly" picture and uttered the magic word: "PUSSY" Mikey, Thane of Duninsane  |
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Ice, Well, I suppose that would be easier than shaking a leg to get it to come out your trouser cuff, but what about the poor fellows behind you in ranks? I'll be marching with the Escort to the Colors of the St. Andrew's Society of Baltimore at the Scottish Walk in Alexandria, VA next Saturday and it's bad enough when we have horse-mounted units ahead of us in the parade. ("Watch your step, second column! Horse doover dead ahead!") Imagine what it would be like if the literally thousands of kilted fellows in the parade just cut loose whenever the spirit (or their bowels) moved them? Not a pretty picture! Mikey, Thane of Duninsane |
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| | | From: Dick | Sent: 11/30/2008 11:12 PM |
Going commando with a kilt can be rough, even with the linen layer in front of the important parts. I suppose Mikey is all caloused up by now. Going commano in cold weather is more hazardous yet. I surley remember an FNG in our pipe band that slipped flat on his back on an ice rut and us and the parade viewers found out he was commando. Brrrr. It's hard to laugh will puffing on the pipes so there were a lot of clinkers for a measure or three. |
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Dick, We always called it "going regimental" because the Regimental Sergeants Major of some Scottish regiments have been known to have a mirror on a stick to check to ensure that the troops were properly unattired as they picked up their liberty cards. The only time I ever came to grief was a few years back when the St. Andrew's Society was doing our annual Pearl Harbor Day remembrance on the quarterdeck of the Coast Guard cutter Taney which is berthed in Baltimore's Inner Harbor as a floating museum. It is the only ship still afloat which was in combat at Pearl Harbor on 07 December 1941. It was a bitterly cold day with the wind blowing in off the harbor at about 30 knots. I was carrying the Marine colors with the group which had the service flags and we were seated on steel folding chairs. Just as I sat down, a gust of wind flipped up the back of my kilt and my bare butt hit that incredibly cold steel seat. To top it off, the guest speaker was a Coast Guard admiral who was in love with the sound of his own voice and droned on for about 45 minutes. I thought the poor old Pearl Harbor survivors who are the honored guests were going to freeze to death as we sat there shivering, but my greatest concern was that the chair was going to be frozen to my ass when we had to rise for the ceremonial part of the program. Fortunately, it wasn't, but it took an extra dram or two of the single malt to thaw out after that one. We'll be doing the ceremony again this Sunday and with snow flurries in the forecast, Ye Thane will be wearing a pair of tartan flannel shorts under his kilt. To hell with tradition and the RSM. Mikey, Thane of Duninsane |
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| | | From: Dick | Sent: 12/2/2008 4:30 PM |
Mikey, Ouch. I hate when that happens. My close call was on an old outhouse at about 5 below zero. I brushed off the snow that got in through the boards, sat down for a job and when I rose I left every hair on my ass on the wood. |
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Dick, Using an outhouse in 5 below zero weather would not be a problem for me. Just the very thought of it makes me constipated. Mikey, Thane of Duninsane  |
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Gents The soluyion to young's problem is carry a can of lighter fluid and "heat" the seat up. Just remember dn't use too much. AF Da Ole Dawg |
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Jack, Well, I actually know some guys who carried cans of lighter fluid with them at all times. However, most of them are now pulling long prison terms for arson and the rest are awaiting trial. Carrying lighter fluid with you can have its own hazards. I know from painful experience that if you overfill your Zippo and then stick it in your pocket, you'll end up with a painful chemical burn on your upper thigh when the petroleum distillates soak through your pocket. There must be a better way. Howz about eating lots of cheese and peanut butter when it's bitterly cold and then when you get to a place with a warm toilet, eat a bar of Ex-Lax and wash it down with a cuppa coffee? How's that old blues tune go? "Loose shoes, tight pussy, and a warm place to shit...." Mikey, Thane of Duninsane  |
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Mike I definitely used in Feb 59 at Pickle Meadows in cold weather training and winter mountain leadership Dawg |
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Jack, I nearly froze my pickle off yesterday doing the Scottish Walk in Alexandria. It was 17 degrees when we left Duninsane to go down there. Fortunately, it got up into the high 20's by the time the parade started and there wasn't any wind. It's blowing 20-30 mph today and since I spent most of last night trying to cough up my lungs from bronchitis, I'm passing up doing the Pearl Harbor Day ceremony in Baltimore today. I can handle bronchitis, but pneumonia will kill you. You passed "mountain leadership"? Does that mean that you can lead a mountain to Mohammed instead of Mohammed having to go to the mountain? Mikey, Thane of Duninsane  |
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Mike I hope yolu don't get pnemounia because I'm just finished getting rid of it I spent 3 days in the hospital last week. Wouldn't yuo know the Doc had me take the pnemouia vaccination and the flu shot. Every time I got yher flu shot in theCorps I got sick for almost the whole week. Believe me I have been miserable (even more so) this past week Dawg |
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this just came through the e-mail, had to
share it.
According to a
Marine
Pilot:
In addition to communicating
with the local Air Traffic Control
facility, all
aircraft in the Persian Gulf AOR are required to give the
Iranian Air Defense Radar (military) a ten minute 'heads up' if they will be
transiting Iranian airspace.
This is a common procedure for
commercial aircraft and involves giving them your call sign, transponder code,
type aircraft, and points of origin and
destination.
I just flew with a guy who
overheard this conversation on the VHF Guard (emergency) frequency 121.5 MHz
while flying from Europe to <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Dubai</st1:place></st1:City>. It's too good not to pass
along. The conversation went something like
this...
Air Defense Radar: 'Unknown aircraft at (location
unknown), you are in Iranian airspace. Identify
yourself.'
Aircraft: 'This is a <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
aircraft. I am in Iraqi
airspace.'
Air Defense Radar: 'You are in Iranian airspace. If
you do not depart our airspace we will launch
interceptor aircraft!'
Aircraft: 'This is a
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> Marine
Corps FA-18
fighter. Send 'em up, I'll
wait!'
Air Defense Radar: (no response ... total
silence)
Semper
Fi
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Jack, Colds and pneumonia present an interesting conundrum: Pneumonia is much more serious and literally can kill you - but the docs can cure it. A common cold will make you miserable, but it isn't fatal - but there's no cure for the common cold. Go figure. Maybe you should stay away from the flu and pneumonia shots if they make you sick. They change those things every year to fight what they think will be the particular strain of flu prevalent that year and I guess even the weakened strength of the vaccine makes you sick. Personally, I have what I believe to be incontrovertible proof that alcohol kills germs reagrdless of the strain and therefore will continue to consume prodigious amounts of it. I'll be healthy as a horse until my liver falls out. Mikey, Thane of Duninsane |
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| | | From: Dick | Sent: 12/9/2008 3:03 PM |
Ice, The old mine is bigger than yours ploy. I saw that a bit ago and wondered if the pilot got chewed out for IDing his plane. No matter, I suspect the Iranians are a little concerned that a plane might be Isralie after they bombed the shit out of their last nuke facility. SF, Dick |
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| | | From: Dick | Sent: 12/10/2008 4:42 PM |
Pneumonia!!! Don't be macho and wait to long to see the doc with chest colds you guys! It took my Mom in '99 and my older brother a few months ago. Glad Dawg got out of the hospital from it, nothing to mess with at our ages. I was told that it can stay dormant in the lungs for about two years after a bout with it and getting an xray in about 6 months or a year is good to see if it's still hangin around as a spot on the xray. Any chest colds or bronchitis in that period should be treated for Pneumonia just to keep it knocked down. As far as the frost bit ass on the outhouse, I was then working on a Bentonite strip mine that was close to a ghost town and the closer crapper. I was to lazy to walk back to the change house. Live and learn. That Bentonite might have been my constipation problem as I saw where dropping a tool into the snow/dust rusted them instantly and my suspicions arose from the logos on the railroad cars being filled with the product: Avon cosmetics, Bayer and even Hershey. Ate Nestlie's chocolate after that but I bet they use the stuff as a filler too. The main use for Bentonite was as a liner to seal ditches and ponds. It sure sealed me up good until an emergency dump forced me to the nearest facility and my ass hair loss on the frozen wood. Never thought of torching it a bit with some flammable fluid, didn't have any on me and was in a hurry. SF, Dick |
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Dick, Bentonite is one of the many things I've never heard of but in my never-ending thirst for knowledge, I Googled it up. Guess what? It's used for and with a great variety of things and among them is as a colon detoxifier. Mixed with some psyllium, it makes an absolutely dandy laxative and will leave your colon cleaner than a Silicon Valley chip-making room. See? Not only did you get all that nasty hair off your ass, you got cleaned out internally, too. Just don't ask me to verify that, okay? Mikey, Thane of Duninsane |
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