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This tv show was a comedy series about a con man Army Sergeant who used his position as leader of a motor pool to earn money via various underhanded schemes. He regularly ran illegal poker games, would sell Army tires and other supplies to local mechanics, etc. Sgt. Bilko's commander, Colonel Hall is constantly trying to catch Bilko and comes close but is never successful.

This site has the complete casting and episode list for the 1955-9 seasons.

I watched Bilko on the Philco.

Thirty years ago up in the mountains in Carson Forest a friend's two hundred acres was the scene of several cabins with stories.

Rudy was an Army lifer with more stories than Bilko.

He and an Army buddy had contrived to get inside the base warehouse where overnight they loaded the liquor for the officers club onto a deuce and a quarter, then drove it out in the morning, with all the booze.

He had lots of those stories, but ran out of liver and died before they could all be told.

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Tehran is terrified by Bush's pronunciamento.

Cheney says we're pursuing the diplomatic angle, but he can't guarantee those wascally Iswaelis won't act yoo-nih-laterally.

Khatami is in full-throated Ceausescu mode, being the very model of a dead man talking.

I suspect you are right about Khatami, and, for that matter, the entire Iranian ruling class. What happened to the old Hussein ruling class in Iraq? All grateful to get a job cleaning toilets nowadays, hey?

Lots of chest beating (like Tarzan of the movies) and cries of "I'm Bad! I'm Bad!" coming out of Teheran these days. Fear, naked fear.

Wait till the Israelis nuke the Iranian nuclear facilities. The B-52s circling in the neighborhood probably won't even have to follow up with the big ones. And if they do have to clean things up, well, the Israelis must have done it, don't you know.

Morning Phil Dragoo.

Thanks for bringin up Sgt. Bilko, A thread on Military Humor wouldn't be complete without him. We had a Philco too. Hard to remember watching b/w on a small round tube. :-)

I'll bet there are millions of stories like your friends out there, known only to those who participated in them or those lucky enough to have heard about them from the source. Sounds a little like my 300 cases of C-Rats story only I managed to have the Supply Depot people load them in my Duece and a half for me ;-).

"Dead man talking", from your lips to God's ears.