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Weekend Open Thread

Weekend Open Thread

Weekend Open Thread

62 thoughts on “Holiday Open Thread”

    1. This was the inflight movie on my way from Philadelphia to San Diego 27 Dec 1983. Seeing Jamie Lee Curtis’ fun-bags was an added bonus to an already great movie. Its on of my “Christmas Movies” along with:

      Die Hard
      National Lampoon: Christmas Vacation
      Home Alone 1 & 2
      A Christmas Story
      The Santa Claus
      Scrooged
      Battleground

      3. The inflight version was not “edited”? Back when everyone watched the same film on one screen in the cabin, any “offensive” content was deleted from the film. Hack recalls flying to Okinawa for the second time, and one of the films was Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter Is Dead. There was one scene where some transvestites steal the kids automobile, but that scene did not make the inflight version.

      4. That final scene in “Battleground” when the squad gets themselves sorted and turns from shambling along to marching past the new replacements may be one of the best one minute clips in military movie history.

  10. Present! No, presents! I hope Santa was good to all you miscreants, dickweeds, grumpy old bastards, and lovely lionesses! Short roadtrip to the kids house to feed him and his friends. D’s Mobile Cantina is ready to roll! Merry Christmas to all!

      1. More of a metaphor, but MRS D’s Jeep is loaded to max with Christmas food and goodies! We love to cook but doing it as a living sucks the fun out of it.

    1. I’ll never forget my first black ice experience, on a bridge in Arkansas. You have NO control over the vectors your vehicle will assume.

      I was going relatively slow, maybe 45. There was oncoming traffic but they were at the other end of the bridge and I think that they saw me episode from beginning to end.

      On the uptick, the truck didn’t hit anything though we traveled in multiple directions.

      Have also had that experience on a motorcycle and lived to remember it. That was real scary.

    1. I saw bob hope on the above link from USO in Viet Of the Nam and he did a USO on my old ship while it was over their after I was separated stateside in Nov of 1966. We did have the Lennon Sisters USO act onboard when when we were down in Santo Domingo in May of 1965 during the revolution.

      1. The 1971 Bob Hope USO show I was able to go to at Camp Eagle was pretty good. He usually had some hot chickees for us to look at, but that year we got Johnny Bench and Vida Blue. /s

    1. Michael Scott’s Christmas parties were with epic or disasters, depending on how you looked at them.

    1. KABOOM!

      🫡😆

      Bagram…2002…SFC D and I remember those Kabooms very, very well…😉

      Thank You for sharing a wonderful memory, SFC D!

      1. I’ve just never looked at that movie same since then. Although, I believe BG Stewart would approve of our sick humor!

        1. SFC D is 100% spot on and nailed it about life in Bagram in 2002. No BK trailer. No fast food. Consumed lots of MRE as well as mystery meat from the canvas covered Mess Hall supported by the 1st COSCOM out of Fort Bragg.

          Good Times. IMHO, better than Baghdad, Mosel, Kandahar or even K2 at Uzbekistan.

          2. McCrystal got rid of all the fast food on Bagram right before we got there. The trailers were all gone and the Popeyes was a turned into a Green Bean with the Popeyes wallpaper still up. If you ever needed to shit, a frappe from Green Bean would have you on the can in under 30.

    1. Yep. I’m sure he’s talking Jesus’s ear off while offering up some smoked pork shoulder, boiled peanuts, and sweet iced tea to all assembled in celebration of our Lord and Savior’s birthday. Who knows, there may even be some Yuengling Lager to wet their whistles along with ice cream floats made with Yuengling Hershey’s Porter for dessert. Here’s to you, Junior. I’ll see you when I get there…FIRST round is on me.

      1. I’m absolutely sure all of that is true, but I guarantee one thing. He won’t give away his cat head biscuit recipe away, not even if Jesus asks nicely.

        1. Looking at that whole money-changers-in-the-temple incident, he damn sure fought like an engineer!

    2. It’s gonna be interesting if Johnny Jihad pulls his shit in Arizona and gets shot to shit by the local populace.

    1. Who don’t flying on a moonlitey night? Probably became disoriented from one of those BP medicines

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