Dwayne Ferguson http://www.whatashock.com "There is no wisdom or virtue in seeking unnecessary martydom or deliberately courting persecution..."
C.S. Lewis
But I do have another GREAT starter sentence! BACKSTORY!
Had an annoying butterbar (Second Lieutenant, the lowest rank of officer) whilst I was in the Army. She was fresh out of ROTC, and really had no clue what went on in the real day-to-day Army, even though she was "in charge". Of course, with my big mouth she had it in for me from the start, and I couldn't seem to get past my own mouthing off to stay on her good side for more than a week or so at a time.
After one particularly spectacular "co-thrashing", with about twenty people in our platoon watching, I said, "Lieutenant, did you ever stop and think....?" and I walked away!
But I do have another GREAT starter sentence! BACKSTORY!
Had an annoying butterbar (Second Lieutenant, the lowest rank of officer) whilst I was in the Army. She was fresh out of ROTC, and really had no clue what went on in the real day-to-day Army, even though she was "in charge". Of course, with my big mouth she had it in for me from the start, and I couldn't seem to get past my own mouthing off to stay on her good side for more than a week or so at a time.
After one particularly spectacular "co-thrashing", with about twenty people in our platoon watching, I said, "Lieutenant, did you ever stop and think....?" and I walked away!
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I think they take their brains away when they give them that commission and only give them back when they get their tracks. (if they've behaved themselves)
There is, of course, the eternal debate: West Pointers, OCS'ers or ROTC'ers? Oh the horror......
At least the West Pointers had some vigor injected into them, combined with intelligence. It didn't always make the difference, but....now that I think about it, I met two ROTCers that were pretty cool. Two out of....
Partial conversations, the snippets overhead in passing, can be strange and sometimes scary.
Case in point: A few years back I went out to dinner with a flock of people from a Con I was attending. Among the party were Bernie Wrightson and his ladyfriend, Joy. During one portion of the evening Joy got to talking about how Bernie got along with her son. Seems she had been married to a guy who went by the nickname "Satan". Her son and Bernie got along so well, she said that "now he calls Satan his 'other daddy'."
At precisely that moment one of the waiters stopped at the table with a fresh basket of bread.