Comments on: Happy Birthday, Marines!

By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:32:00 +0000

(Wing-wipers & zoomies) & (swabbies / swabbos & bubbleheads) & (jarheads).

By: DL Sly

DL Sly — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:28:15 +0000

Ms. Bookworm,
I was wondering if that was it was something along the same kind of lines as your *timely* postings of the Watcher’s Council awards.

Danny,
Marines are fondly known as Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children and are most commonly used in those times when it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight.
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By: suek

suek — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:18:11 +0000

Air Force: bus drivers

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:38:09 +0000

Book’s just following sage old military wisdom to get there first, with the mostest.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:59:57 +0000

I’ve been trying to collect the pejoratives that the various service branches lovingly cast at one another: can you all help me out?

Thus far I have:

Navy: Squiddies
Airforce: Chairforce
Marines: Muscles are Required, Intelligence Not Essential!
Army: Mud pounders, grunts

Any more?

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:01:17 +0000

I knew it wasn’t today, but as I am famous (or infamous) for forgetting birthdays, I figured better early than never.

By: DL Sly

DL Sly — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:55:07 +0000

Pssssst! Marine Corps birthday is the 10th.
Jus’, yanno, FYI.
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