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Posted on 02/05/2005 7:06:23 AM PST by snippy_about_it
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 THE REAL NAVY! Here are a few suggestion for those people on how they can experience Navy life, right in the comfort of their own homes. Buy a dumpster, paint it gray and live in it for 6 months straight. Run all of the piping and wires inside your house on the outside of the drywall. Pump 10 inches of nasty, crappy water into your basement, then pump it out, clean up, and paint the basement " deck gray. " Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go to the scummiest part of town, find the most run down, trashy bar you can, pay $10 for a beer until you are hammered, then walk home in the freezing cold. Perform a weekly disassembly and inspection of your lawnmower. On Mondays. Wednesdays, and Fridays turn your water temperature up to 200 degrees, then on Tuesdays and Thursday turn it down to 10 degrees. on Saturdays and Sundays declare to your entire family that they used too much water during the week, so all showering is secured. Raise your bed to within 36 inches of the ceiling.  Have your next door neighbor come over each day at 5am and blow a whistle so loud that Helen Keller could hear it and shout, "Reveille, reveille, all hands heave out." Have you mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the next day and read it to you. Eat the raunchiest Mexican food you can find for 3 days straight, then lock the bathroom door for 12 hours, and hang a sign on it that reads "secured, contact OA DIV at X-3053." Submit a written request form to your father-in-law, asking if it's o.k. for you to leave your house before 3pm. Invite 200 of your not-so-closest friends to come over, then board up all the windows and doors to your house for 6 months. After 6 months is up, take down the boards, and since you're on duty, wave at your friends and family through the front window of your home.... you can't leave until the next day. Shower with above mentioned friends. Make your family qualify to operate all the appliances in your home, for example, become a dishwasher operator, blender technician etc... Walk around your car for 4 hours and checking the tires pressure every 15 minutes. Sit in your car and let it run for 4 hours before going anywhere. This is to ensure your engine is properly " lit off " Empty all the garbage bins in your house, and sweep your driveway 3 times a day, whether they need it or not. Repaint your entire house once a month. Cook all of your food blindfolded, grabbing for any spice and seasoning you can get your hands on. Now, chow down! you have 5 minutes.... Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month. losing every 5th item. Spend $20,000 on a satellite system for your TV, but only watch CNN and the weather channel. Have your 5 year old cousin give you a haircut with goat shears. Sew back pockets to the front of your pants. Spend 2 weeks in the red-light districts of Europe and call it "world travel ." " Needle gun " the aluminum siding on your house after your neighbors have gone to bed. When your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone, and shout at the top of your lungs that your home is under attack and order them to man their battle stations. Post a menu on the refrigerator door informing your family that you are having steak for dinner. then make them wait in line for at least an hour, when they finally get to the kitchen, tell them that you are out of steak, but you have dried ham and hot dogs. repeat daily until they don't pay attention to the menu anymore and they just ask for hot dogs. In the middle of January, place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have your family stand watches at the podium, rotating at 4 hour intervals. Lock yourself and your family in your house for 6 weeks. then tell them that at the end of the 6th week, you're going to take them to Disneyland for " weekend liberty ". when the end of the 6th week rolls around, inform them that Disneyland has been canceled due to the fact that they need to get ready for E-cert, and that it will be another week before they can leave the house.      |
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on February 05:
1626 Madame Marie de Sévigné Paris, celebrated letter-writer (Portrait in Letters)
1723 John Witherspoon clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence
1748 Christian Gottlob Neefe German composer/conductor/tutor of Beethoven
1788 Sir Robert "Bobbie" Peel British PM (1834-46), founded Tories
1810 Ole Bull composer
1833 John Watkinson founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess magazine)
1837 Dwight Lyman Moody US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)
1840 Hiram Stevens Maxim inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)
1840 John Boyd Dunlop Scotland, developer (pneumatic rubber tire)
1891 Karl L Schmidt German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum)
1900 Adlai E Stevenson (Governor-D-IL), presidential candidate (D) (1952, 1956)
1906 John Carradine Greenwich Village NY, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling)
1914 William S Burroughs St Louis, novelist/junkie (Naked Lunch)
1917 Zsa Zsa Gabor [Zsa Sari], Budapest Hungary, actress (Queen of Outer Space)
1919 Red Buttons [Aaron Chwatt], Bronx New York NY, comedian/actor (Sayonara, Poseidon Adventure)
1922 Bernard Kalb State Dept spokesman/actor (Dave)
1923 Stephen J Cannell TV producer/writer(Rockford Files, A-Team)
1934 Hank Aaron baseball player (record 755 home runs, 1957 NL MVP)
1939 Jane Bryant Quinn newscaster/financial writer (Everyone's Money Book)
1941 Rick Laird jazz musician (Gerry Niewood & Timepiece)
1942 Roger Staubach NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1944 Al Kooper rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
1964 Duff [Michael] "Rose" McKagan rocker (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child of Mine)
1978 Kristina Cherina Miss Croatia-Universe (1997)
good morning, Snippy and everyone at the Foxhole.
No humor thread would be complete without...
Murphy's Military Laws
Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.
No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
Friendly fire ain't.
The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map.
The problem with taking the easy way out is that the enemy has already mined it.
The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at.
The further you are in advance of your own positions, the more likely your artillery will shoot short.
Incoming fire has the right of way.
If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush.
The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.
If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap.
The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions.
The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss.
Don't be conspicuous. In the combat zone, it draws fire. Out of the combat zone, it draws sergeants.
If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy.
I think it's a law.
February 5, 2005
Through the years, the memory of our descent into that pit has reminded me again and again of Jesus' words concerning the lost, who are "cast out into outer darkness" (Matthew 8:12). As terrifying as it was to be in that cave for just a few moments, imagine what it would be like for eternity!
We don't hear much about hell these days. But that doesn't mean there is no such place.
Have you ever thought about where you will spend eternity? According to the Scriptures, you will spend it in one of two places-either heaven or hell.
If you have never made sure of heaven, why not pray something like this right now: "Lord Jesus, I believe that You died on the cross for my sins and rose again from the dead. I now receive You as my Savior. I don't want to be lost. I want to go to heaven. Save me!"
Jesus promised, "The one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out" (John 6:37). -Richard De Haan
Every sinner must be pardoned or punished.
free dixie,sw
Morning Snippy.
free dixie,sw
1967 "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)
Mom always liked you best.
Good Morning Feather.
Morning E.G.C.
We had a beautiful sunset last night. Overcast this morning though. :-(
Ain't that the truth!
We don't hear much about hell these days
Seems the Church is afraid to remind us about Hell.
Morning stand watie.
Free Dixie!
Well lets just say I have my ways and leave it at that.
There are somethings you don't want to know...trust me.
I agree, my Pastor doesn't shy away from it..
Well, we have rain the forecast but right now it's nice and sunny.
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