Comments on: Okay mom, I godda go…

By: ILikeShinyThings

ILikeShinyThings — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:53:51 +0000

No, it hasn’t. My son is in Afghanistan and there’s at least a 5 second delay.

By: 龚汉军

龚汉军 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:28:32 +0000

我爱你，妈妈。我不要手爸爸。不要，妈妈. 我不恨你！
Translation: I love you, mom. No, I don’t want to talk to dad. No, mom, i don’t want to. I don’t hate you!
Language: Mandarin Chinese （汉语）

By: Danbala

Danbala — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:30:16 +0000

That they were “worried” sounds like the understatement of the year. ;p

By: Deacon Blues

Deacon Blues — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:28:27 +0000

Reminds me of an incident in Iraq a couple years back. A soldier was heading into a firefight, when he accidentally hit “redial” on the cell phone in his pocket. It called his folks’ house back home. They were out, so the answering machine got the call. The recording ended as its time ran out – and as the soldier in question was shouting for reloads, and someone nearby was shouting, “Incoming!”

Fortunately, the young soldier called home later, when his team returned to base. He was fine, none of them had actually been hit in the battle – but boy, were his folks worried!

By: Keith Hackney for President

Keith Hackney for President — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:12:52 +0000

He who calls his mother-in-law shall be punished: Back to the house of pain!

By: KAmiu

KAmiu — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:45:23 +0000

why is the wood smoking? xD

By: Justacarolinan

Justacarolinan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:46:36 +0000

Sorry Ivan, I thought you would catch the movie quip. It wasn’t saying anything about you.
Just channeling Sgt Hartman.
Now eat. They are paying for it, you eat it.

By: Roxie

Roxie — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:26:49 +0000

That’s the first time I’d ever seen it spelled with “dd” instead of “tt”

By: dissodatore

dissodatore — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:50:36 +0000

“Yes Sargent, we are here, Yes the smoke bomb went off, Yes, we are moving into position, No Please don’t put the General on. . . . . . Yes Sir the thingy is going well”

By: Isildo

Isildo — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:16:49 +0000

I’m afraid to ask. How old were they?

By: Squid

Squid — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:44:53 +0000

Makes perfect sense

By: Squid

Squid — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:43:25 +0000

The acts like a televangelist, I have not heard him utter anything other than fear mongering. He has my mother-in-law convinced that everybody who looks Mexican is an illegal alien and if you’re driving next to them they will try and hit your car for some obscure reason. BillO and Beck bring out the worst of politics and play on peoples fears and prejudices to get ratings.

By: Rando the Floydist

Rando the Floydist — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:40:02 +0000

Why don’t I find that reassuring?

By: CyanEyed

CyanEyed — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:29:57 +0000

Umm… ^makes no sense.

By: CyanEyed

CyanEyed — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:27:03 +0000

Not really, Glen Beck is muck less crazy than he used to be.

By: Rando the Floydist

Rando the Floydist — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:13:16 +0000

I was lost until the “Ein-Knie-Methode.” High school German kicked in. “Oh, one knee method. I know what scene that is!”

By: Rando the Floydist

Rando the Floydist — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:10:30 +0000

LMAO

By: fish eye no miko

fish eye no miko — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:37:55 +0000

Heh.. I was just thinking how I liked how the captioner wrote it, since, despite how it’s supposed to be spelled, it often comes out sounding just like he wrote it;”godda”. (“Ina Godda Divida”?)

By: fish eye no miko

fish eye no miko — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:34:13 +0000

No, my weapon rack would be up on my chest…

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:27:17 +0000

I used to have that rule with my kids, who also had a very broad definition of “emergency”….my favorite being the “peanut butter incident.”

By: Isildo

Isildo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:23:55 +0000

That doesn’t work on my mom… she has a very broad definition of “emergency.”

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:29:59 +0000

That was bugging me, too, but I thought maybe I was just being too picky.

By: EddiePscetti the Floydist

EddiePscetti the Floydist — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:25:46 +0000

Just a minor annoyance, but shouldn’t it have been ‘gotta go’?

By: EddiePscetti the Floydist

EddiePscetti the Floydist — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:23:46 +0000

Not necessarily a satphone, but more than likely a satlink. And because the 3 second delay, it was probably a double bounce (i.e. up, down, up, down.)

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:12:43 +0000

“Of course I’m being careful, Ma.

I gotta go.”

By: Schmoe

Schmoe — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:24:45 +0000

No, the “tough conservative warrior” is back in the states urging others to actually risk their lives while he sits at a keyboard bragging how brave he is for saying he’s brave.

By: Schmoe

Schmoe — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:22:10 +0000

“Lookadda grouse! Lookadda grouse!”-Jerome “Curly” Howard, ca.1931

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:54:59 +0000

Is it possible that whether it’s “rifle” or “weapon” is dependent on branch of service or even the personal preference of the guy yelling at you (drill sergeant or whoever)? I mean, it seems possible that you could BOTH be right.

By: Squid

Squid — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:52:51 +0000

Did you serve Sqwirk? If not, that soldier on the right, whom you are trying to insult, puts you to shame.

By: Squid

Squid — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:49:47 +0000

Glen Beck and BillO don’t have comebacks, they have screaming, hang-ups, and mic cuts, then they use mature name calling like “pinhead” and such once they’re safe from being called a name back. Those two offer nothing of value to the political world and they make their living by selling fear and hate.

By: Captain Wow

Captain Wow — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:16:38 +0000

Show us on the doll where Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck touched you.

By: The Steve

The Steve — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:01:07 +0000

One would think weapon would be correct….don’t soldiers carry a sidearm as well as a rifle?

By: The Steve

The Steve — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:59:57 +0000

Hey, do you happen to have a weapon rack in that fox hole? I’d like to stow my gun there overnight…

By: Ivan The Floydist

Ivan The Floydist — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:53:01 +0000

And 25 years ago, we said “weapon”. If it’s changed to “rifle” I wasn’t aware of it.

By: Ivan The Floydist

Ivan The Floydist — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:51:07 +0000

Wow, your dickishness is reaching new levels. Don’t make me unfriend you!

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:41:55 +0000

FTW! I like that.

By: Justacarolinian

Justacarolinian — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:38:33 +0000

Fox hole?

By: Justacarolinian

Justacarolinian — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:38:00 +0000

Rifle, not weapon. This is my rifle, this is my gun. You grabastic piece of …… Did your parents have any children that lived?

By: viking gal

viking gal — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:46:05 +0000

Totally. I had to create a hard and fast rule about NEVER calling me at work, unless it was an emergency. Fortunately, that one still holds!

By: viking gal

viking gal — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:44:50 +0000

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:40:23 +0000

I’d agree it looks most like a CAR-14; all I meant was that the SA-80 is the rifle it looks most like, and you can’t see the end of the mag slot on an SA-80 that well from that angle. It’s amazing just how much people on here know about any weapon (system) from a Derringer pepperpot up to an Iowa class battlewagon or a Nimitz flat-top, isn’t it!

By: Seattle_Al

Seattle_Al — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:31:29 +0000

(derailed:-) Looks more like a CAR-14, the shortened version of the M-16A2(3?) the fellow on right has.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:17:46 +0000

If the one on the left is carrying a rifle and not a carbine, it’s a British SA-80 (but the front sight is wrong for that), in which case the magazine is in the butt.

By: Seattle_Al

Seattle_Al — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:10:31 +0000

No worries. Them boys ain’t gonna cause too much trouble, there are no magazines in those rifles…

By: Lucy's mom

Lucy's mom — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:56:15 +0000

What if you’re in the military and you don’t have a “gun” hanging between your legs? Have they got a mnemonic for us yet?

By: Lucy's mom

Lucy's mom — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:54:42 +0000

Ah! Don’t do this to us, Cuddlee, I beg you! I’ve seen ID four zillion times. If you tell me what was on the screen when when the lines were delivered, I have maybe one chance in three of figuring it out. Please!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:51:47 +0000

A 3s delay sounds like your friend in the Sandbox was using a satellite phone (I know the transmission delay is less than that, but there are processing delays too).

By: Sqwirk

Sqwirk — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:48:25 +0000

GET OFF MY RADIO STATION!

SCREAM!

By: ElbieSee

ElbieSee — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:43:28 +0000

Reminds me when my good friend was in Iraq and gave me a phone call. Just a quick “still alive, how are things, love ya bye!”

The relay kinda sucked. About three seconds between saying something and it being heard on the other end.

O’course, that was about ten years ago, and technology might have changed things…

By: ElbieSee

ElbieSee — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:41:09 +0000

*punch* “Welcome to Earth!”