From: rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor)
Subject: Re: Proof that the USMC is ToolOfTheDevil[tm]
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 02:36:38 GMT

In article <1992Aug23.214002.25676@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
>rip@sequent.com (Neader"jarHeaded"Man) writes:
>] In article <1992Aug16.212132.8582@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
>] >
>] >Since I have Yet to find:
>] >
>] >1. CAS: Close Air Support
>]
>] We all *know* that Marine CAS is the best in the World!!
>
>This statement is not correct.

Ok, I'll bite, what is the answer to the 64cent question...?

>] >2. MAF: Marine Amphibious Force
>] >
>] >In the Bible, this is therefore Clear Proof
>] >that the USMC is a ToolOfTheDevil[tm]?????
>]
>] And what is the problem with this?  After all we are also known as
>] 'DevilDogs', a nickname we wear with pride...
>
>Along with Fleas, lice, and little things that evolve
>upward from single celled organisms and are found
>in the Mud....

But Marines *like* fleas and lice and stuff like that!  Keeps the
squids from trying any rear maneuvers, I mean any service that would
have a 'RearAdmiral'...  And crawling through 8inches of mud and muck
just makes me feel like, well, like I am going to have an organism!

>{ those are the NotYetUSMCthingies.... }

No, but with the proper motivation, they *could* become Marines.  If
not they would make fine semen,  oops, *Seamen*.  :-)

>] >A point that is Intuitively Self Evidently Intrinsicly
>] >Obvious to the Casual Observer of the 'little green machine.'
>]
>] 'Casual'?  When the hell have *you* ever been 'JustaCasualObserver'?
>] Not bloody likely...
>
>"Oh I am Just SHOCKED that you would USE such Rude Course language....", he
>said, casually observing the rough edges around that neaderthalman.

Hey!  You leave NeaderthalMan out of this!  He didn't do anything to
you!  You are just a mean, cold hearted person to pick on someone with
such low mental capabilities!  Pick on someone your *own* size!  (Gawd
is that *loaded* or what?) :-)

>] >ps: Not that I would wish to suggest or allude to
>] >any form of intraservice rivalry.....
>]
>] Oh, sure.... Right... I believe ya....
>
>does the phrase,
>"go tell it to the marines,
>as the navy isn't buying it." [1]
>
>bring anything to mind?????

Well, 'Tell it to the Marines' does, but the other part don't sound
too familiar.  And if I remember the history behind that saying, the
reason they had to 'tell it to the Marines' is because no one would
believe the Navy guys!

>] By the way, me and LF kicked some butt on T2 at the MiniGolf place....
>
>"Oh My, Oh My, Oh My!", he said, becoming painfully aware
>that this young man suffered from unresolved violent
>tendencies and would most likely remain a threat to
>those around him......

Yeah, so what's your point?  Quite beating around the bush drieux,
what is it that you mean?


>ciao
>drieux
>
>[1] for those who are slow on the uptake,
>that IS the quote... and not that hunk of
>Junk 'John WayneIsm' that everyone has been
>confused about for years....

Well, the first part of it is the *real* quote.  'Tell it to the
Marines' came about along time ago when some Brit Navy Capt was
telling the King about his travels in the seas around the equaltor,
and in particular about seeing flying fish.  Well, the King asked the
old grizzled Marine Seargent who happened to have been on the same
ship if it was true.  The King knew that if the Marine said it was
true, then it must be true...  Hence forth if the King wanted to make
sure something was true he would 'tell it to the Marines'.


Note: The details of said story are shakey, but the meaning of the
works is there.  If you want to know the truth, ask a Marine...

rip
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