• From An Army Girl

    From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to All on Thu Mar 4 00:04:16 2021
    Dear Ma and Pa,

    I am well. Hope you are too. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the
    Marine Corps beats working for old man Finch by a mile. Tell them to
    join up quick before all of the places are filled.

    I was restless at first because you get to stay in bed till nearly 6am.
    But I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you
    do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things. No hogs
    to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay.
    Practically Nothing.

    Men got to shave but it is not so bad, there's warm water. Breakfast is
    strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but
    kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and
    other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the
    two city boys that live on coffee. Their food, plus yours holds you
    until noon when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't
    walk much.

    We go on 'route marches,'which the platoon sergeant says are long walks
    to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different.
    A 'route march' is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city
    guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.

    The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The Captain is
    like the school board. Majors and Colonels just ride around and frown
    a lot, but they don't bother you none.

    This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals
    for shooting, I don't know why. The bulls eye is near as big as a
    chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the
    Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable
    and hit it. You don't even load your cartridges, they come in boxes.

    Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to
    wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they
    break real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ol' bull at home. I'm
    about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in
    Silver Lake. I only beat him once. He joined up the same time as me, but
    I'm only 5'6" and 130 pounds and he's 6'8" and near 300 pounds dry.

    Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers
    get onto this setup and come stampeding in.

    You loving daughter, Alice
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  • From Jimmy Anderson@1:116/18 to Daryl Stout on Thu Mar 4 17:31:00 2021
    Daryl Stout wrote to All <=-

    Dear Ma and Pa,

    This is great! I didn't read the subject first, so I was
    surprised at the end. :-)




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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Jimmy Anderson on Thu Mar 4 21:15:00 2021
    Jimmy,

    This is great! I didn't read the subject first, so I was
    surprised at the end. :-)

    Talk about putting the boys to shame. <G>

    Daryl

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to All on Fri Jun 4 00:03:50 2021
    Dear Ma and Pa,

    I am well. Hope you are too. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the
    Marine Corps beats working for old man Finch by a mile. Tell them to
    join up quick before all of the places are filled.

    I was restless at first because you get to stay in bed till nearly 6am.
    But I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you
    do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things. No hogs
    to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay.
    Practically Nothing.

    Men got to shave but it is not so bad, there's warm water. Breakfast is
    strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but
    kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and
    other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the
    two city boys that live on coffee. Their food, plus yours holds you
    until noon when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't
    walk much.

    We go on 'route marches,'which the platoon sergeant says are long walks
    to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different.
    A 'route march' is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city
    guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.

    The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The Captain is
    like the school board. Majors and Colonels just ride around and frown
    a lot, but they don't bother you none.

    This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals
    for shooting, I don't know why. The bulls eye is near as big as a
    chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the
    Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable
    and hit it. You don't even load your cartridges, they come in boxes.

    Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to
    wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they
    break real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ol' bull at home. I'm
    about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in
    Silver Lake. I only beat him once. He joined up the same time as me, but
    I'm only 5'6" and 130 pounds and he's 6'8" and near 300 pounds dry.

    Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers
    get onto this setup and come stampeding in.

    You loving daughter, Alice
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  • From George Pope@1:153/757.2 to Daryl Stout on Sun Jun 6 10:06:07 2021
    Dear Ma and Pa,

    [...]
    Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers
    get onto this setup and come stampeding in.

    You loving daughter, Alice

    I'm reading it as if Gomer Pyle write it home! (I still watch it, on Friday nights, just before Green Acres and a double shot of Hogan's Heros) then you
    h it me with the sign-off Got me!

    Did you hear about the new sitcom reboot with an all Hispanic cast?
    The Juander Years

    NBC is planning an old-fashioned sitcom about Abraham Lincoln.
    It will be shot before a live audience.

    Have you seen the new sitcom based around the sectarian Islamic takeover of
    the city of brotherly love?
    It's Always Suni In Philadelphia.

    Can someone tell me the name of the 80s sitcom set in a bar with Ted Danson?

    cheers,

    Me

    Q: What do you call a bad sitcom?
    A: A sh*tcom.

    A sitcom about Jesus...
    Wouldn't make it past the Pilate episode!

    "To alcohol! The cause of, & solution to, all man's problems!" --H. Simpson, 1997

    & one of my fave Senifeld routines:

    There are many things you can point to as proof that the human is not smart. But my personal favorite would have to be that we needed to invent the
    helmet. What was happening, apparently, was that we were involved in a lot of activities that were cracking our heads. We chose not to avoid doing those activities but, instead, to come up with some sort of device to help us enjoy our head-cracking lifestyles. And even that didnÆt work because not enough people were wearing them so we had to come up with the helmet law. Which is even stupider, the idea behind the helmet law being to preserve a brain whose judgment is so poor, it does not even try to avoid the cracking of the head itÆs in.



    Your friend,

    <+]:{)}
    Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to George Pope on Sun Jun 6 23:11:00 2021
    George,

    I'm reading it as if Gomer Pyle write it home! (I still watch it, on Friday nights, just before Green Acres and a double shot of Hogan's
    Heros) then you h it me with the sign-off Got me!

    All the great TV shows were back then...it's all trash now. Yet, to
    society today, it's the raunchier, the better.

    Did you hear about the new sitcom reboot with an all Hispanic cast?
    The Juander Years

    If you have a Tex-Mex Emergency, Dial Nine Juan Juan.

    NBC is planning an old-fashioned sitcom about Abraham Lincoln.
    It will be shot before a live audience.

    Only if they can a-Ford the theatre. <G>

    Have you seen the new sitcom based around the sectarian Islamic
    takeover of the city of brotherly love?
    It's Always Suni In Philadelphia.

    Except when it rains.

    Can someone tell me the name of the 80s sitcom set in a bar with Ted Danson?

    cheers,

    Me

    I was going to say "Taxi", but the meter was running.

    Q: What do you call a bad sitcom?
    A: A sh*tcom.

    The sign on a McDonald's Restaurant looking for new staff..."Now
    Hiring Smiling Faces For Afternoon $h!+$" (they forgot the F).

    A sitcom about Jesus...
    Wouldn't make it past the Pilate episode!

    They're watching it on the Barabbas Network.

    "To alcohol! The cause of, & solution to, all man's problems!" --H. Simpson, 1997

    "Inflation Has Gone Up Over A Dollar A Quart"...and "Someone Left The
    Cork Out Of My Lunch". - W.C. Fields

    & one of my fave Senifeld routines:

    They did one with Seinfeld, Billy Crystal, and someone else...a partial re-enactment of the classic "Who's On First?" routine.

    Daryl

    ... Happy Hallowthanksmasnewyearvalentinepatrickeaster.
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  • From George Pope@1:153/757.2 to Daryl Stout on Tue Jun 8 10:00:01 2021
    All the great TV shows were back then...it's all trash now. Yet, to society today, it's the raunchier, the better.

    Mostly, yup -- I find anything produced by Chuck Lorree is quality -- actual humour & the actors are all excellently versed in method acting (actually BECOMING the character they play)

    I love the great character development & dialogue in: "The Big Bang Theory," "Mom," & "United States of Al" (the first 2 are series ended, but the latter one is brand new)

    Any of his are well worth a binge watch. .

    > GP> NBC is planning an old-fashioned sitcom about Abraham Lincoln.
    It will be shot before a live audience.

    Only if they can a-Ford the theatre. <G>

    Nice!

    Can someone tell me the name of the 80s sitcom set in a bar with Ted Danson?

    cheers,

    Me

    I was going to say "Taxi", but the meter was running.

    Taxi was Danny DeVito. . .

    The sign on a McDonald's Restaurant looking for new staff..."Now
    Hiring Smiling Faces For Afternoon $h!+$" (they forgot the F).

    I have a photo of that sign somewhere on my HDD.

    "Inflation Has Gone Up Over A Dollar A Quart"...and "Someone Left The
    Cork Out Of My Lunch". - W.C. Fields

    Fields had some goodies!



    ... Happy Hallowthanksmasnewyearvalentinepatrickeaster.

    Got it, ow leave you alone until next year, as you've just done all your
    cards?

    Guess Who's playing at the arena tonight?
    Who?
    Yes!

    Sales are down, so my boss asked why the greeting cards aren't moving
    I told him it's because they are stationary

    In the store I saw some brightly coloured greeting cards that said, "I will always love only you "
    They sold them in packs of 12.

    They actually made a KFC movie on the Hallmark channel
    ItÆs suppose to be a romance but donÆt be surprised if thereÆs some Fowl
    play.

    IÆm an accountant for Hallmark... they throw me out of casinos now because
    IÆm a ôprofessional card counterö.

    As I handed my dad his 50th birthday card, he looked at me with tears in his eyes and said,
    "You know, one would have been enough." (Juan would do it, eh?)

    Your friend,

    <+]:{)}
    Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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