Quotes and Jokes (2 Viewers)

special ed · Feb 25, 2022

I have had this joke a long time from my Marine friends' military emailings and didn't use it because of our French members. I decided only because we needed to lighten up. I mean no insult as I live in the French Acadian part of Louisiana. Besides, it could have been Italian... oh, did it again.

DerAdlerIstGelandet · Feb 25, 2022

special ed said:
I have had this joke a long time from my Marine friends' military emailings and didn't use it because of our French members. I decided only because we needed to lighten up. I mean no insult as I live in the French Acadian part of Louisiana. Besides, it could have been Italian... oh, did it again.

No worries my friend.

Snautzer01 · Feb 25, 2022

Snautzer01 · Feb 25, 2022

Gnomey · Feb 25, 2022

Greg Boeser · Feb 25, 2022

special ed said:
I have had this joke a long time from my Marine friends' military emailings and didn't use it because of our French members. I decided only because we needed to lighten up. I mean no insult as I live in the French Acadian part of Louisiana. Besides, it could have been Italian... oh, did it again.

The two-hand salute may have been popularized by the French, but, as with all French fashions, it quickly spread. By mid 1945 even the Germans were doing it.

Snautzer01 · Feb 26, 2022

Greg Boeser said:
The two-hand salute may have been popularized by the French, but, as with all French fashions, it quickly spread. By mid 1945 even the Germans were doing it.

The Germans were experts in it. But to be fair had lots more expierence then other players.

Marcel · Feb 26, 2022

Change of subject. I thought this was appropriate for the current situation.

special ed · Feb 26, 2022

GTX · Feb 26, 2022

Marcel said:
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Amen brother!!!

MiTasol · Feb 26, 2022

MIflyer said:
A friend of mine who was in the USAAF in WWII, trained to be a B-32 gunship gunner, said that he and another enlisted man were at a base around the end of the war and watched a helicopter take off. The other guy uttered one of the all time best quotes about rotary winged flying machines;

"I would not be too scared to fly in one of those but I would be too embarrassed."

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Everything old is new again

Gnomey · Feb 26, 2022

ThomasP · Feb 26, 2022

If, as mentioned by Rod Serling up-thread, in another world YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook merged to form YouTwitFace - does that mean that in some other world YouTube, Meta, and Twitter have merged to form YouMetaTwit?

NOTE: In this case the definition of Meta is today's colloquial meaning of about itself, ie "meta-X equals X about X." So, if we take the word "data" for our X, and add the prefix meta- to it, we get metadata, or "data about data." A meta-text is a text about texts, metacognition is thinking about thinking, . . .

ThomasP · Feb 26, 2022

SaparotRob · Feb 26, 2022

ThomasP said:
If, as mentioned by Rod Serling up-thread, in another world YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook merged to form YouTwitFace - does that mean that in some other world YouTube, Meta, and Twitter have merged to form YouMetaTwit?

NOTE: In this case the definition of Meta is today's colloquial meaning of about itself, ie "meta-X equals X about X." So, if we take the word "data" for our X, and add the prefix meta- to it, we get metadata, or "data about data." A meta-text is a text about texts, metacognition is thinking about thinking, . . .

My head hurts now.