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Overheard at a parade in Mexico City...

By The Armorer on December 22, 2008 | | Comments (14)
Overheard at a parade in Mexico City...
H/t Boquisucio for the pic.

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By Grumpy on December 22, 2008 9:38 AM
I wouldn't worry, it'll come out at the end. OH BOY, it'll come out! 
 
By Josh on December 22, 2008 10:45 AM
What's "damfino"?  I looked it up on the intarwebs, but all I found was a really creepy picture of Buster Keaton looking like a pedophile.
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 22, 2008 11:03 AM
Say it out loud, Josh. Several times.  That might help.
 
By Josh on December 22, 2008 11:07 AM
*facepalm*

Who's worse, the guy responsible for the dumb joke, or the guy too dumb to get it?
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 22, 2008 12:01 PM
Nothin' wrong with my joke, Josh.  "Damfino" wasn't the joke, anyway.

The green-visaged Mexican soldiers were.  Just in  case you were still not there yet.
 
By BillT on December 22, 2008 2:34 PM
Mexican *paratroopers*, by the look of the rig they're wearing.

I'm surprised Boq didn't -- ahem -- jump all over that one...
 
By jim b on December 22, 2008 2:39 PM
My son asks the question:

What do you call a squad of Mexican Infantry?

An Army of Juan.
 
By Josh on December 22, 2008 4:51 PM
Oh.

Jeez.

I'm having an "off" day.
 
By Boquisucio on December 22, 2008 5:56 PM
*Jumpitty - Jumpjump*

This is what happens when Crazy Frogs get all Marcial.
 
By Papa Ray on December 22, 2008 7:23 PM
You picked a bad day for this joke.

They just found 9 Mexican Soldiers without their heads and a note attached to them that said:

'For every one of ours that you kill, we will kill ten of yours'

Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 22, 2008 7:41 PM
Well, that truly sucks, Papa Ray but no, I don't scan the news everyday for the bad news that may make it unfunny to people too close to an event when I'm going to post something.

And I'm not going to pull this now, with a caveat I'll get to later.

In context, it's still funny, and isn't really mocking the Mexican Army in terms of fighting prowess or their successes and failures in their very real war on the narcotraficantes.  And certainly not in any more than I've mocked our own Army, which also happens to be at war, and in which I know people who have died.

Now, if you can tell me that one of the troops in that photo was among the casualties, I'll yank it in a minute.

Otherwise, I'd expect the "Crazy Frogs" as our resident spanish-speaker calls them, to cammie up, check their kit, and go break up some drug gangs.

Which will probably result in some more dead soldados.

It goes with the job.

 
By Josh on December 22, 2008 10:01 PM
They just found 9 Mexican Soldiers without their heads and a note attached to them that said:

'For every one of ours that you kill, we will kill ten of yours'

Um.  I honestly don't mean to make light of the soldiers' deaths, but uh...was this a retaliation for killing 0.9 narcotraffickers?
 
By Barb on December 22, 2008 10:17 PM
Actually, if you read the back story, there were a total of 12 dead soldiers, if I recall correctly.  So the drug-trafficking bastards are still math challenged, in the other direction.
 
By Grumpy on December 23, 2008 1:03 PM
John, If I were you, I wouldn't take this post down. It could actually be the very thing to bring these Mexican Soldiers respect. To those who have done this, beheading sounds great. I have a few questions, how do you define "beheading"? Which one? Knife, sharp or dull? I figure they will be put in the men's prison. They should stay in the same cell for the rest of their lives. With the right hormone injections, these individuals could live a long life of "SERVICE" to their nation. Note, the term "SERVICE", would be most definitely NOT in uniform of ANY kind. What do you think?