Ahem. And, hairless. Do you suppose they wax?

-- bystander

That's too painful. Depilatory.

Enjoy your freedom to be ignorant. Someone has to guarantee it.

-- HornetDriver

The guy who claims to drive a funny car is the guy who will save me from Osama? Oh, oh.

A lot of 'chopper, chopper, chopper ends up being the death of farmers and mules. But Hornet Driver is here only to save my "ignorant" ass. What a guy, gal, bot.

..visions of dead Arabs dancing in your head.

Let us know which portion of the Constitution you're willing to fight for back here at home. Yeah, I know the 2nd amendment, but what else...

More hornet-driven than hornet driver, doncha think?

That's the problem with giving big toys to little boys. It curdles 'em. Look at John McCain, or Randy Cunningham. They just can't tell one stick between their legs from another.

A sheeple (I hate that term) to believe modern Iraqis needed anyone's help making copper discs for EFPs.

Technology

Babylonians invented many technologies, which include metalworking, copper-working, glassmaking, lamp making, textile weaving, flood control, and water storage, as well as irrigation. Earlier on they used copper, bronze and gold, and later they used iron. Palaces were decorated with hundreds of kilograms of these very expensive metals. Also, copper, bronze, and iron were used for armor as well as for different weapons such as swords, daggers, spears, and maces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonia

I'm sorry. There is no other way to put it. Sadly that does describe far too many Americans. I blame American Idol, the MSM and Fox News.

It's an old SNL skit, Dan Akroyd days, a parody of an auto ad with the moyle perfoming a circumsision in the back of a brougham. Not a parody anymore. Some car company is actually using a similar premise.

Ah, yes, that's what I was thinking of. Thanks. IIRC, it was a spoof on a real car commercial at the time, with some diamond cutter in the back seat.

And nowadays, there's a couple knock-offs as well, but not spoofs. The KFC one is of the same vein, but I think Toyota has a similar one. Why bother thinking up an original idea when you can steal someone else's ... and hope that everyone has LTM deficits and doesn't see what you did....

Cheers,

Thank you for your service. I do have a question for you about Naval slang though.

Now, I know what a gedunk is. I also know what "Sweepers Man Your Brooms" means. Things like bulkhead, topside, deck, "birdfarm", and "pogeybait" are easy.

I'm having trouble with the meaning of the term "wet start". Can you help?

Thanks in advance.

I'm awfully proud to stay that one stick holder, my Dad, is a true-blue Obama man; clearly able to understand the difference (now) between protecting our freedoms and waging unprovoked war, of being a leader instead of a bully. Perhaps tough guy stinger bee, who fights dirty war for pudgy, gluttonous, rich, chicken-hawks, will come around in another 40 years. If he lives that long.

Unless you're testing Hornetdriver to see if he's what he says that he is, I can tell you about wet-start, Jebbie.

I had a father-in-law like that. Marine combat pilot, fixed-wing and helicopters (in Viet Nam.) Was also the Marine Commandant's pilot for a while. Salt of the earth. I don't know how some folks remain centered even in their youth, but the phenomenon of the arrogant and callous boy wonder is by no means universal, even in a military which encourages it. Could it be their upbringing, I wonder?

I don't know why you guys don't believe he is who and what he says he is. I completely believe it, but then I spent 6 years of my life with feeble brained, morons like him who had been propagandized to the very top of their high and stupids.

Sir -- and I call him Sir because a) I believe he is who and what he says he is and b) because I had to actually get a sat. haircut, fucking work for a living and carry pack and hump my ass to and fro, so...

Sir, I would recommend you not continue to embarrass the Marine Corps (or the Squidly's as the case may be) by taking on your intellectual superiors in this fashion. Now I am not advocating that you retreat... no, no... just fight in a different direction because, right now, my learned compatriots (or just patriots for short) are turning this place into the Frozen Chosin. Perhaps if you read some books other than those on the Recommended Reading List for Marines (excepting Gen. Butler's of course... that is if it was ever listed, I can't recall), perhaps if you read a few books like the aforementioned All the Shah's Men, Overthrow (by the same author, Kinser) and War Is A Racket by our very own Gen. Butler, you might be able to then move on intellectually and eventually even locate, close with and destroy the true enemy to the "American way" (which I promise you is not these "liberals").

Just a few friendly suggestions... Sir.

You gotta be saving the world from tyranny, else you're just dropping bombs on poor people. Damn, that would suck.

That's too painful. Depilatory.

Brought to their knees by strips of hot wax. ;-}

He knows. He's just tweaking Buzz Operator's little stinger thingie.

sux to be him

You gotta be saving the world from tyranny, else you're just dropping bombs on poor people. Damn, that would suck. -- karrsic

It does (not that I ever dropped bombs on anyone)... but the realization that you are/were, by and large, an enforcer for the moneyed elite and corporate America is an incredibly painful shock to the system. It gives any person with even the least bit of humanity pause. The question is does Hornet Driver have that least bit of humanity? If he does can he get in touch with it? I am not sure because I have several buddy's that have never been able to find theirs.