I saw this from Twitchy, and it is admittedly one of the best covers evah…..
So, it got me thinking, what if we take other famous quotes, and Petraeusize them.
So, I’ll get you started (with some from Brown Neck Gaitor):
“Booty is the sublimest word in the English Language.” – Robert E. Lee Petraeus
“Love is a better teacher than Booty” – Albert Einstein Petraeus
“Booty, Honor, Country” – Doug Mac Petraeus
Go forth and pun….
Update:
I won’t say who said this without his permission, but this one wins….
“Veni, Vidi, Veni.” — Julius Caesar Petraeus
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“David! What is best in life?”
“To crush your enemies — See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their booty!”
Patraeus the Barbarian
“Come on, you sons of bitches-do you want booty forever?” Gunnery Sergeant Dan Petraeus, USMC.
Saw this one on another thread…
Call of Booty: Modern Whorefare….
“There is not not enough booty in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they wont to go”
– Lewis B. “Chesty” Petraeus
Well, it looks like someone else was also having fun with this – and pulled one over on a Denver’s ABC-TV station:
http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/abc-affiliate-ran-phony-cover-broadwell-book_663264.html
“Cry booty–and let slip the dogs of war!”
“Act 3 Scene 1, Julius Petraeus”
–William Petraeus Shakespeare
“I think when you spread the booty around, it’s good for everybody.” Barack Hussein Petraeus.
“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or booty”.
Barack Hussein Petraeus
Achilles addresses his Myrmidons: You are lions! (Noise from Mymidons) You are animals! (More noise) There is booty over there! It’s yours! Take it!!!
(Myrmidons exeunt boat, kill priests take booty and prisoners)
@56
LOL. I was thinking that exact thing.
“Double, double, booty and trouble”
– Wm Shakespeare “MacBeth”
Spartans? What is your Booty???
“Ahoo Ahoo Ahoo”
– David Petreoidas
@61
Piggybacking on that one…
“This is BOOTY!!!”
– David Petreoidas
@55 Hondo
Wow, just wow…what is seen cannot be unseen.
“It follows then as certain as a night in bed succeeds the imbed, that without a decisive semen force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything booty and glorious.”
– President George W. Petraeus
@64
I heard a clip of her talking last night. She was speaking about having been embedded with Petraeus. Of course my mind heard it as “in bed” with Petraeus.
My inner 13-year old was appeased.
I know of only one booty, and that is to love. Albert Petraeus
“Booty. Honor. Country. These three hallowed words revertently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”
“A general is just as good or just as bad as the booty under his command make him.”
Gen Douglas McArthur Petraeus
” And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his booty as God gave him the sight to see that booty.”
Gen Douglas MacArthur Petraeus
Still can’t top the New York Post’s original headline:
“CLOAK AND SHAG HER”
61 and 68 have my vote as #1
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentation of MY women…
Conan “The Barbarian” Petraeus
” The Midnight Ride of Paula’s Rear”….Staring General PP
Mike Work here is done.
Long time Lurker.
Wheatthins
Give me catnip or give me booty. — Mikey the Large and In Charge
….Or better….”the midnight ride of Paula’s rear” a Biography of Paula Broadwell. Written By General Petraeus. Forward by Jill Kelly.
Now my work here is done.
Stay Classy
You didn’t tap that booty yourself. – Barack Petraeus
What light through yon wondow breaks? It is the East, and that booty is the sun! – Shakespetraeus
Two booties diverged on the hershey highway, and I, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frosty Petraeus
All In. – Paula Broadwell (still the number one quote for this whole thing, IMO)
For what it’s worth, TSO: I think your “best quote” in the article is a bit out of order and may be incomplete.
In this case, I think it ought to be “Vici, vidi, veni – abii”. I saw, I conquered, I came – I went. (smile)
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of booty.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I regret that I only have but one booty to lose for my country – Nathan Patraeus Hale