Posted on 03/08/2025 10:30:50 AM PST by buwaya
Also, “The last Adventurer” Rolf Steiner
Pour Les Belges y en a plus
Ce sont des tireurs au cul
Funniest bit. Its the sort of ball-breaking done to this day.
Q: Why are the red & blue sections of French flags attached on with velcro?
A: So they can be quickly converted into all-white flags of surrender.
.... And other ones I can't remember, that were posted on FR some decades back.
Which reminds me of a joke shared by members of German Panzer units in the WWII N Africa campaign:
"Did you know that Italian tanks have 6 speeds? One forward, and 5 in reverse."
This joke caused a German Minister of Defense to almost lose his job in the 70s, when he was reviewing a NATO forces parade as the tanks rolled by, and he turned to someone sitting next to him to say, "The tanks remind me of a joke we used to tell in the Panzers...." A nearby journalist overheard the joke, published it, and the Italian Govt called for this guy's head: "How *DARE* a high official of one of our allies disparage our military?!?"
What seemed to be lost on the Italian Govt was that this joke referred to an alliance long preceding NATO. One known as The Axis.
That makes me think of Earl Butz for some reason.
Read, “Mouthful of Rocks “ by a Brit who joined the Legion in the 80s. The title references a means by which recruits were discouraged from speaking their native languages in training...
Wikipedia's re-telling of the joke is different than I remembered it (substitute "pair of knockers" for "shoes").
I thought I also once heard that he reached the highest GS rating of any government employee ever (like 30-something?), but can find no mention of that now.
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