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Jack Webb in The D.I.
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Posted on 06/06/2014 9:30:23 PM PDT by DemforBush
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    I imagine a lot of FReepers have seen this one before, but for those who haven't, it's really quite a treat.
To: DemforBush
    Does he have any copper clappers?
 
To: DemforBush
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posted on 
06/06/2014 9:37:38 PM PDT
by 
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
 
To: DemforBush
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posted on 
06/06/2014 9:41:44 PM PDT
by 
Morgana
(        Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
 
To: nickcarraway; DemforBush
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posted on 
06/06/2014 9:50:11 PM PDT
by 
NoCmpromiz
(John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
 
To: DemforBush
    I recall that movie from when I was a boy. It presented a most appealing picture of what it was like to be in the military and what it was like to be a man.
What was the sex of that flea you just killed?
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posted on 
06/06/2014 9:59:57 PM PDT
by 
Robwin
 
To: NoCmpromiz
    A classic. However, I’m not going to show it to my Thai wife. I’d literally never hear the end of it.
 
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posted on 
06/06/2014 10:03:46 PM PDT
by 
JimSEA
 
To: DemforBush
    I loved this film (they never seem to show it on television anymore). Jack Webb in one of his best roles (did they ever find that dead sand flea?).
 
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posted on 
06/06/2014 10:05:53 PM PDT
by 
teeker
 
To: DemforBush
    LOL. Many contemporary Marines—including my son—don’t know what pogey-bait is.
 
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posted on 
06/06/2014 10:11:22 PM PDT
by 
righttackle44
(Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
 
To: teeker
    That was then. Today it would be male, female, other.
 
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posted on 
06/06/2014 10:12:30 PM PDT
by 
glyptol
 
To: DemforBush
    My father wrote the screenplay. One of his first.
 
To: teeker
    You never see “The Sergeant” with Rod Steiger either,
 
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posted on 
06/06/2014 10:27:13 PM PDT
by 
Clemenza
(Lurking)
 
To: Lizavetta
    Wow. That is something! You rightly honor him as we approach Father’s Day in little more than a week.
 
To: DemforBush
    S^%$ can reveille. Usually the container is thrown across the barracks.
 
To: DemforBush
    One thing jumped out at me.
The recruits are calling Sergeant Jack Webb, “Sir.”
Is that a script error, or was the military protocol different in those days?
 
To: DemforBush
    I actually had a DI that was often hilarious, to the detriment of the platoon. If we laughed, hell would descend on us.
 We lived in Quonset huts, so rousting out at 0430 or whatever was not the raucous routine as Webb did here. It was a trash can tossed into the hut.
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posted on 
06/07/2014 12:42:24 AM PDT
by 
Rodney Dangerfield
(Has any President in history sunk to such a level of self-flattery & validation-seeking?)
 
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posted on 
06/07/2014 12:45:42 AM PDT
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Rodney Dangerfield
(Has any President in history sunk to such a level of self-flattery & validation-seeking?)
 
To: DemforBush
    Rifles stowed in racks in the middle of the bay. Not in todays military when tyrants fear the military and make war on them while they serve and after.
 
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posted on 
06/07/2014 1:08:39 AM PDT
by 
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
 
To: NoCmpromiz
    Webb was also pretty funny on the film “Your in the Navy Now”.
 
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posted on 
06/07/2014 1:26:14 AM PDT
by 
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
 
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