Posted on 09/08/2007 5:42:24 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
The popular all-American comic-book military man and action figure dating back to the 1940s is undergoing a significant transformation for the Paramount Pictures-distributed "G.I. Joe" film, which begins production in February and is scheduled for release in summer 2009.
No longer will G.I. Joe be a U.S. Special Forces soldier, the "Real American Hero" who, in his glory days, single-handedly won World War II.
In the politically correct new millennium, G.I. Joe bears no resemblance to the original.
Paramount has confirmed that in the movie, the name G.I. Joe will become an acronym for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity" — an international, coed task force charged with defeating bad guys. It will no longer stand for government issued, as in issued by the American government.
The studio won't elaborate, saying filming hasn't begun and details are still in the works, but the behind-the-scenes rumblings are that the producers have decided to change the nature of G.I. Joe in order to appeal to a wider, more international audience.
The word is that in the current political climate, they're afraid that a heroic U.S. soldier won't fly.
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GI Joe can STILL beat Ken! Barbie needs a REAL MAN! ;-)
they already cut is balls off..i can only imagine what kind of politically correct rest and relaxation gi joe gets now
They can let the Metrosexuals in NYC go watch it in big field trip groups, then retire to the nearest gay bar afterward.
GI Joe joins the dont ask dont tell army
It turns out my brothers and I were prescient. We were a little too old for the G.I. Joe cartoon and we used to tune in just long enough to sing our own version of the theme song: “GI Joe! The greatest American Homo! GI Joe is there, in some guy’s ***!”
Apparently the only Bomb in the movie will be the movie.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Let me guess he is gay and fighting the military to do away with dont ask dont tell. He also drives a Prius and he loathes the war in Iraq or anywhere else.
Perfect.
How do you figure out the head arrangements on a ship in the new Navy?
One for men (hetero)
One for men (homo)
One for women (hetero)
One for women (homo)
Hmmmm, that doesn’t work. That turns two of the heads into steambaths.
OK. Let’s put the homo women in with the hetero men, and the homo men in with the hetero women.
Whoops, somebody got raped. How could that be, since you have naked men and naked women running around in the same shower room on a steel can in the middle of the ocean? At least in prison you get let out in the yard for a few hours, right?
OK. Let’s build individual heads for every homo on board.
One for men (hetero)
One for women (hetero)
Crew/100 x heads for each homo. (census data says about 1/100 are gay)
Hmmmm, these reactors and turbines are getting in the way. And if we decide not to take on as many aircraft, we may be able to squeeze in the 500 heads it would take to go to sea with on our little aircraft carrier slice of social heaven.
Hmmmm, perhaps if we just decided not to turn the military into a social petrie dish, we may be able to kill some bad guys AND save a little room on our ship.
Pity though that every time we come home we see all those divorce lawyers lined up at the pier, and it is inconvenient to lose key people to pregnancy every time we throw off the stern line.
He will be saved by a woman,don’t ya know?
Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity" — an international, coed task force....
Your New World Order GIJoe comes with his/her own blue beret and black helicopter. Weapons not included. /sarc
LOL ~ Okay, you and I are probably in agreement on this thread. If I should happen to come across a thread in which a highly decorated female soldier is doused in gasoline and lit on fire for joining the Army, I’ll ping you to it. We would probably be in agreement on that too. It would bear no more resemblance to our disagreement than this story.
GI means General Infantry.
Interesting stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GI_%28term%29
I know, wiki, take with a grain of salt.
Cobra Commander will be portraed as the son of former snake worshipping Bible thumping nut parents who went crazy.
Agreed. Seeing as how it's not about creating a "commercial success", one can only conclude it's about redefining and diminishing an American culture icon and attempting to destroy it in the minds of future generations.
maggief, what’s the story behind that picture? I’ve never seen it before...
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