Discuss: Between Iraq And A Hard Place

Ever have that situation? That one where you know you're totally screwed, yet you somehow manage to put on an idiotic grin and somehow make it through, proving that God does indeed love a fool?

So here's mine...

We were in the local mayor's office for the largest city in our sector. The commanding officer wanted to do a 'meet-and-greet', along with several other officers and other self-important apparatichix. My duty was to make sure they didn't wander off and get lost, or get themselves shot. It's a full-time job.

So, the 'space ants' (plus yours truely) went into the mayor's building, and those wonderful officers went t the mayor's office to shoot the shit. My job was to guard outside a thick metal door that locked on the inside.

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1- Tracey on Dec. 10 2007

Jersey, we may never meet in person but I tell you, I know how much I care about you and Chris as I read this feeling as sick as any "real world" friend would and then as f'n ecstatic as any friend would.

Divine intervention? Your wits on high-test auto-pilot? Your dad's genes in all their glory? Whatever it was, I'm so glad you and your humor prevailed.

Here's to you,

Tracey

----- "WWJerD?," said Toad.

2- Leanne on Dec. 10 2007

Laughter is the only true democracy.

I can't remember the exact quote, but Machiavelli says something about in order to breed killing hate in war, you have to make the enemy inhuman. "They're all going to bomb our buildings"... "The infidel eat their babies"... both sides in any war engage in propaganda. But once you tell a joke, and strike that chord, humanity wins through. Now if only someone would tell the humourless fucks at the top about that.

I get pissed off when someone uses my coffee cup without my permission. I can only imagine how I would feel if someone did that to my entire country. But I'd be equally pissed off if my boss told me I had to use someone else's cup and hold a gun to their head while I did it.

So, my solution to the war is -- tell jokes, and shoot anyone who doesn't laugh, because they're the real problem.

3- Caelanwolf on Dec. 11 2007

I guess I wish I could say that this made me laugh, or even smile. All it really does, as your spouse, is make my stomach and my head hurt simultaneously. FTA come home. sigh.

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