freecounterpoint: Life is getting tough for the marines

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Life is getting tough for the marines

The few, the proud, the fruitcakes.

14 comments:

Pepe le Pew said...: Dozens of Marines are reportedly queuing up at tattoo parlours to beat the deadline.
Not to worry: i heard that when the deadline falls, they'll still have access to manicures & bikini waxing.; 3/28/2007 10:09 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: ????? Tattoos go back for hundreds of years as war decoration, just ask the Maoris.....
Now, what exactly does a tattoo have to do with "manicures and bikini waxing"? It's not as if they are getting tatoos of Vile-Pain or Louis XV in Versaillian drag.
But perhaps we can scry Pepe's hidden "reasoning".

" Pepe has longed plumbed the bottom of Nawlins
In Nawlins' bottom the "youths" are all Liberaced
Liberaced Nawlins youth get Tatoos to accompany their bikini waxes and manicures
[ TYPICAL PEPEAN LOGICAL IDIOCY HERE]
Hence anyone who gets a tatoo must be like those liberaced Nawlins youth Pepe has gotten to the bottom of. "

Yet again, France is Proud; 3/28/2007 11:18 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: It seems the Thou Shall Not Damage Government Property clause was better rationale for discouraging young cadets to get inked.

"Traditional Values" smacks so much of Michael Moore and Bill O'Reilly, both who harken back to some kind of pre-Corporate/pre-Liberal Gilded Age in American History.

AA, have you been plumbing the depths of Canadian brew this evening?; 3/28/2007 11:45 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: ????? Tattoos go back for hundreds of years as war decoration, just ask the Maoris.....
Right, and when they wear leather miniskirts, you'll argue it's derived from the scottish tradition?; 3/28/2007 11:45 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Leather miniskirts? Tell that to the Maoris; 3/28/2007 11:54 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: This tattoo thing is kind of interesting, reminding me of the Ancient world.

Roman soldiers defending the frontiers around London would remember their comrades by recycling helmets (or using them after their former owners were KIA). The helmets would often be inscribed with the inscriptions of former owners/soldiers. Today in Britian, archaeologists are uncovering helmets with inscriptions from several such Ancient owners. Kind of interesting, at least to mft.

Looks like another case for the humanities, eh JJ?; 3/29/2007 12:17 AM
Mr roT said...: why, mft?; 3/29/2007 10:38 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: You're right, JJ: neither those Roman soldiers nor the historic-archaeologists who plotted the meter-by-meter test units to uncover and record the recovery of Legion helmets could ever build a jet engine.

Again you're right, JJ, the humanities is a waste of time! R.G. Collingwood, what a loser!

(1st, include sarcastic tone with above comments; 2nd, see your previous posts regarding how you intimated that philosophy and whatever else is a humanities is just a way for professors to sound smart — or "deep" — to hot undergrads. While this may be the case in some instances, to suggest the stereotype that all of us sit in black clothing, dye our hair black, read Schopenhauer in the back of dimly lit coffee shops while sipping herbal tea is, shall we say, a bit off the mark... then again, for engineers to bash the humanities is merely continuing what has turned into a National Pastime. Whatever.); 3/29/2007 11:15 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Or, in your own words.; 3/29/2007 11:17 AM
Pepe le Pew said...: Hey, i thought i had the monopoly of getting sarcastic shit from you people. JJ, out of my turf.; 3/29/2007 11:31 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: What do you mean by "you people"?

...bigot.; 3/29/2007 1:12 PM
Mr roT said...: I had dark hair once and read Schopenhauer. Got more stinky broads...; 3/29/2007 6:09 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Is the emphasis on "more" or on "stinky". It makes a difference; 3/30/2007 12:55 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: I agree with AA: word order is paramount.; 3/30/2007 1:59 PM