ANY kind of quote, even serious ones.
Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
-- John Adams
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
-Second Witch, Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Benjamin Franklin
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
-Frank Sinatra
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
-George Santayana
"Look what I can do!"
Stuart from Mad TV
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
-George Santayana
I've always heard the Santayana as:
"Those who refuse to remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Either way, it's a powerful quote. When you tour the museum at the Dachau concentration camp just outside Munich, Germany, this quote is on a large display as you leave the museum. I have remembered it, and the lessons learned, ever since...
Bob and Dave are a$$hole$!!!
- Tony Rogers (circa 2005)
How many Krystals did he get ?!?!?
-Anonymous PMEL Technician (circa 2005)
"Who's Pele?"
- Quote from an airman during a Phase II exercise at Holloman AFB
"Nobody is a patriot on an empty stomach." - Thomas Jefferson
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
-Plato
Quote from: Thraxas on 04-04-2006 -- 18:04:46
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
-George Santayana
Quote from: flew-da-coup on 04-05-2006 -- 06:48:52
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
-George Santayana
I guess this thread proves it. :-D
"You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hands".
Jesus is coming - look busy.
I bet you'd drive better with that phone stuffed up your a$$!
If we stopped voting, would they go away?
"Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up..."
- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
—Ronald Reagan, Remarks at a business conference, Los Angeles, March 2, 1977
Disco sucks!
"Disco is not dead! Disco is life!" :mrgreen:
"Welcome to my underground lair"
"Never send a Ferret to do a Weasel's job"
--- Budweiser Frogs
Its all fun and games till someone loses an eye!
"Storm. Cyclops. What do they call you- 'Wheels?'"
- Wolverine in X-Men
"Is that a mouse in your pocket?" Or are you just happy to see me....
"But...why is all the rum gone?"
- Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."
-Batman, Batman Begins
Famous last words of a good ole boy
"Hey! watch this"
When some guy walks in and smacks the back of your favorite head up against a bathroom wall and asks if you have paid your du's, you just remember what old jack burton says at a time like this. Have you paid your du's, yes sir the cheque is in the mail.
-big trouble in little china-
Get away from me, you lazy-eyed psycho!
I'd rather Dodge 'em them drive 'em!
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"Gilligan little buddy" are you alright!
"I've come to chew bubble-gum and kick @ss, but I'm all out of bubble-gum"
Roddy Piper
"They Live"
Hopefully I got it close enough
"If you die, were splittin up your gear"
No good deed goes unpunished.
From Herman Munster: "Darn! Darn! Darn! Darn! Darn!......
"Dont touch that you fool!! Its the history eraser button!!
"An army of deer being led by a lion is to be feared more than an army of lion being led by a deer."
-Phillip of Macedonia
"Can't polish a turd..."
-My drill indtructor referring to a recruit who just didn't get it.
"You gotta be sh*tting me! There's more of you?!"
-My drill instructor in referring to the same recruit in last post. We was having an inspection. You have to state your name when the inspector gets in front of you. Just so happens his name was James Johnson, III.
"I'm ya Huckleberry..."
-Doc Holiday, Tombstone
"Marines know how to use their bayonets. Army bayonets may as well be paper-weights."
Navy Times; November 1994
"Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.?"
Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, USA; 12 February 1918
"I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!"
General of the Armies Douglas MacArthur; Korea, 21 September 1950
"We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?"
Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., USA, Chairman of the the Joint Chiefs of Staff
during the assault on Grenada, 1983"
"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem."
Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985
"Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat."
RAdm. "Jay" R. Stark, USN; 10 November 1995
"They told (us) to open up the Embassy, or "we'll blow you away." And then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns, and they said in Somali, "Igaralli ahow," which means "Excuse me, I didn't mean it, my mistake".
Karen Aquilar, in the U.S. Embassy; Mogadishu, Somalia, 1991
"Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly, USMC
near Lucy-`le-Bocage as he led the 5th Marines' attack into Belleau Wood, 6 June 1918
"Gone to Florida to fight the Indians. Will be back when the war is over."
Colonel Commandant Archibald Henderson, USMC
in a note pinned to his office door, 1836
"Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever."
the mythical GySgt. Hartman, USMC; portrayed by GySgt. R. Lee Ermey, a Marine Corps Drill Instructor using his own choice of words in Full Metal Jacket, 1987
"You'll never get a Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!"
Capt. Henry P. Crowe, USMC; Guadalcanal, 13 January 1943
"There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion."
Gen. William Thornson, U.S. Army
"Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share."
Ned Dolan
"I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold."
1stLt. Clifton B. Cates, USMC
in Belleau Wood, 19 July 1918
"Courage is endurance for one moment more..."
Unknown Marine Second Lieutenant in Vietnam
"My only answer as to why the Marines get the toughest jobs is because the average Leatherneck is a much better fighter. He has far more guts, courage, and better officers... These boys out here have a pride in the Marine Corps and will fight to the end no matter what the cost."
2nd Lt. Richard C. Kennard, Peleliu, World War II
"A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors."
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
"Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's fire, when it comes to deterring a crisis. And the ships and Marines may not have to do anything but lie offshore. It is hard to lie offshore with a C-141 or C-130 full of airborne troops."
Gen. Colin Powell, U. S. Army
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
During Operation Desert Storm
"You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth- and the amusing thing about it is that they are."
Father Kevin Keaney
1st Marine Division Chaplain
Korean War
"There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better, tougher training, more marksmanship on the firing range, the instant obedience to orders seared into men in boot camp."
James Brady, columnist, novelist,
press secretary to President Reagan, television personality and
Marine
"The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world. "
Admiral William Halsey, U.S. Navy
"I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well."
General Robert E. Cushman, Jr., USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 17 May 1974
"I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world."
Prime Minister of Britain, Sir Winston Churchhill
" Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army."
Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War;
shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered
to not wear their khaki leggings.
"The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it."
General Mark Clark, U.S. Army
"Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary."
Gen. A. M. Gray, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps
"A Ship without Marines is like a coat without buttons."
Adm. Farragut
"If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war."
General of the Armies Douglas McArthur in Korea,
overheard and reported by Marine Staff Sergeant Bill Houghton, Weapons/2/5
And people think the Marine Corps brainwashes troops....Yeah right. :wink:
""I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the Pacific to kick the s**t out of the purple-pissing Japanese, before the Godda**ed MARINES get all the credit!" Lt General George Patton, US Army 1945
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." GEORGE ORWELL
"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer!"
MAJ. HOLDREDGE
"The MARINES have landed and have the situation well in hand!"
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
"I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence."
GEN. JOHNSON, U.S. ARMY
"We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in a different direction!"
GEN. OLIVER SMITH, USMC
"Teufelhunde! (Devil Dogs)"
GERMAN SOLDIERS, WW1 at BELLEAU WOOD
"So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those bastards won't get away this time!"
CHESTY PULLER, USMC
"Retreat hell! We just got here!"
CAPT. LLOYD WILLIAMS, USMC
"The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of MARINES. LORD, how they could fight!"
MAJ. GEN. FRANK LOWE, U.S. ARMY
"Panic sweeps my men when they are facing the AMERICAN MARINES."
CAPTURED NORTH KOREAN MAJOR
"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!"
LT. GEN. LEWIS "CHESTY" PULLER, USMC
:evil:
WE STOLE THE EAGLE FROM THE AIR FORCE, THE ANCHOR FROM THE NAVY AND THE ROPE FROM THE ARMY.
ON THE SEVENTH DAY WHILE GOD RESTED, WE OVERRAN HIS PERIMETER, STOLE THE GLOBE AND WE'VE BEEN RUNNING THE WHOLE SHOW EVER SINCE.
:evil:
WE LIVE LIKE SOLDIERS, TALK LIKE SAILORS, AND SLAP THE HELL OUT OF BOTH OF THEM.
Come on Devil Dog. You carried a set of leads and a multimeter, not Barrett 50cal.
:-D
Quote from: flew-da-coup on 04-21-2006 -- 11:55:14
Come on Devil Dog. You carried a set of leads and a multimeter, not Barrett 50cal.
:-D
They're weapons nonetheless....Coup, you HATER!!!! :wink:
I'm with Flynn- anybody can kill the enemy with a gun; it takes a skilled agressor to take 'em out with a Simpson (I'm thinking he takes the threaded alligator clips off the test leads so he has the nice, sharp pointed ends available for penetration...)
Of course, I'm ex-Air Force PMEL, so what in hell do I know about killing the enemy?? I just worked on the meter that worked on the test set that worked on the plane that delivered "shock and awe."
Quote from: docbyers on 04-24-2006 -- 07:15:51
I'm with Flynn- anybody can kill the enemy with a gun; it takes a skilled agressor to take 'em out with a Simpson (I'm thinking he takes the threaded alligator clips off the test leads so he has the nice, sharp pointed ends available for penetration...)
Of course, I'm ex-Air Force PMEL, so what in hell do I know about killing the enemy?? I just worked on the meter that worked on the test set that worked on the plane that delivered "shock and awe."
I've killed a man with less: 1 fuse, a 175k ohm resistor, and a bottle cap....
Ah hell, who am I fooling...
I was a new tech in Wyoming when TSgt Ron Roe would regale us new guys on his exploits during the Viet Nam war. "There I was, traipsing through the jungle outside of Phan Rang with an AN/USM 37 by my side..." We would sit there, wide-eyed and slack-jawed, awe-struck at this "war hero," when we realized he was "embellishing" his wartime service just a little bit, and a good laugh was had by all...
I myself have killed many of VC in the jungles of Nam with just a RG-58 and a BNC to Type N adapter. I would always leave a "K" Pro or a NAVAIR behind as my calling card. Yeah, that used to scare the crap out of those little people. Let me tell ya, there is nothing more terrifiing for a VC than to come across 33K4-4-269-1 laying on top of their strangled buddy. Those were tough times for calibrators. Hell, we had a lean too for a cold room and had to actually stand up to do our job because we had no lab chairs. I remember one night me and my fellow calibrators had to do a on-site near DaNang. We HALO jumped with test equipment strapped to our backs from 40 thousand feet into the jungle. We had heavy resistance, but we calibrated like no one had ever seen before or since. Then all hell broke loose. I got shocked with 12 VDC and had to be MediVac'd out. That's how I got my Purple Heart, and that's no lie. :evil:
I'm kinda scared of K4 procedures myself! I'll stick to the K8s, thank you very much!
You know we could use a good K8 writer up here at the AFPSL too...
ok...I know this had nothing to do with the post...just couldn't help myself
You want me to move from the comfy environs of suburban Cincinnati to the wilds of Newark? Not to mention the cut in pay...! If Arnie Alpert and Marc Lemert were still there, I might consider it, but Arnie has retired and Marc moved on to greener pastures years ago...
See, then there would be no preconceived ideas about why you're coming up...just for the love of the job....I'm I killing you with kindness yet?! Or am I just giving you colon cancer!?!?
Love of the job is a very important aspect, and one of the reasons I love my current job is that they pay me $40/hour to do it! Match that, and you and I will have a more serious discussion about K8 procedures!
Heck...if they paid that here, we'd already have filled the darn slots. problem is no one want to make $25 to $30...and that's more than most labs pay.
Quote from: flew-da-coup on 04-24-2006 -- 08:16:21
I myself have killed many of VC in the jungles of Nam with just a RG-58 and a BNC to Type N adapter. I would always leave a "K" Pro or a NAVAIR behind as my calling card. Yeah, that used to scare the crap out of those little people. Let me tell ya, there is nothing more terrifiing for a VC than to come across 33K4-4-269-1 laying on top of their strangled buddy. Those were tough times for calibrators. Hell, we had a lean too for a cold room and had to actually stand up to do our job because we had no lab chairs. I remember one night me and my fellow calibrators had to do a on-site near DaNang. We HALO jumped with test equipment strapped to our backs from 40 thousand feet into the jungle. We had heavy resistance, but we calibrated like no one had ever seen before or since. Then all hell broke loose. I got shocked with 12 VDC and had to be MediVac'd out. That's how I got my Purple Heart, and that's no lie. :evil:
Very nice....
Reminds me when I was doing a covert recon mission in Tijuana. The mission: To infiltrate the local clubs and engage the local, young, hot chicks...hummm....I mean enemies, with automactic tequila shots and bazooka bombs while avioding the FUC's (Fat, ugly chicks). One of my Marines fell casualties to a FUC...A really big FUC....And now I'm stuck with the sad task of telling his son. That hurts....
Meanwhile, at LZ Pedro's, I encountered a VHC (very hot chick) ambush...Oh man it was intense. Alcoholic gun fire, coupled with the fact that her "uniform" revealed the fact that this was going to be a tuff battle. I was catured...Damn...And couldn't resist her vicious interragation...and when it was all said and done, I woke up on the beach, naked except for my boxers, one sandal on one foot and a footie with a fuzzy purple ball on the other, a chicken bone across my chest, along with a note saying,"I'm a chesse omlete" in spanish...No lie....got the pictures to prove it.... :-(
I Like Chickens. :-o
Flew-da-Coup ( circa April 2006 )
"Krystals taste pretty good for kangaroo meat. Mmmmmm...good!"
-Flew-da-coup (circa 2005)
"Hey, hey, 1st of May! Outdoor necking starts today!"
Thaxas thanks for quoting me. May those words ring true for ever... I do like Kangaroo meat. It's delicious. :-D
"I'm more qualified to be senior tech!!!!"
-Anonymous (circa 2005, early morning)
"I'm more qualified to be senior tech!!!!"
-Anonymous (circa 2005, early morning, second session)
"I'm more qualified to be senior tech!!!!"
-Anonymous (circa 2005, mid-morning)
"I'm more qualified to be senior tech!!!!"
-Anonymous (circa 2005, late morning)
"I'm more qualified to be senior tech!!!!"
-Anonymous (circa 2005, noon)
"I'm more qualified to be senior tech!!!!"
-Anonymous (circa 2005, afternoon break)
"I'm more qualified to be senior tech!!!!"
-Anonymous (circa 2005, end of shift)
"I'm more qualified to be senior tech!!!!"
-Anonymous (circa 2005, overtime)
"I'm more qualified to be senior tech!!!!"
-Anonymous (circa 2005, early the next morning. Rinse and repeat.)
"Just kidding...kinda."
-Thraxas, now
"Put your gun collection away, flew-da-coup!"
-Thraxas, typing while running...
alright. we're talking about the two wonderboys of metrology ( the wood worker and the God of Metrology.) When you pick any one of those two people for a Senior Tech position you just told me that you are a idiot or you just like someones nose shoved up your butt. :-D
"God of Metrology" sounds so ominous. Say it out loud. You can hear the capital letters when you do. :-D
Statistically speaking of course. :lol:
yes, statistically..
yeah, marines are handy. Although, I keep getting jarhead mixed up with swabby, lol
Course when they really wanted the job finished they always use the army.
Isn't the army the last to show up and the first to leave? :-D
Quote from: flew-da-coup on 05-03-2006 -- 11:57:01
Isn't the army the last to show up and the first to leave? :-D
Well, I do believe you're right, Mr. Coup! :-D
Least we remember the Chosin Resoivor during the KoreanWar....hmmm, very embarrassing for the Army, and to say the least, America...
And what about the present war? Remember when the Army had their BDUs stolen in Iraq by insurgents after they had them shipped to the cleaners? First of all, I only could have wished I had the luxury of shipping my cammies off to get washed and cleaned whenI was there (HELLO, WE"RE IN FRICK'EN HERE, PEOPLE!!!!!!!!) The army tried to keep it a secret until we where killing Habib the Insurgent and all of his pals, wearing army BDU's with like, First Sgt. chevons....WTF?
But hey, I love yall anyway! :wink:
The highway of life is full of flat squirrels that couldn't make up their minds.
Yes, but the reason the marines are first in and last out is because of their attention span. We have to be careful not to overextend them and just use them on certain occasions. lol
Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair or f$%king beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
-Al Swearengen, Deadwood