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Happy Saint Paddy's Day

By Boquisucio on March 17, 2010 | | Comments (14)
To everyone OCONUS,  may you drive away the snakes from your Operating Zone.


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By Kevin on March 17, 2010 11:35 AM

Happy St. Paddys Day!  And for your listening pleasure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbrzZWLu6Qw&feature=grec

Warning.  NSFW lyrics, it is afterall... a drinking song....

 
By BillT on March 17, 2010 1:18 PM
And an appropriate theme song for the November elections, too...
 
By Kevin on March 17, 2010 2:08 PM

I like BillTs comment.  I hadn't thought of it in that way.... but it seems very appropriate.  Esp the hook and chorus.

Okay now... Just the boys "All you bassids bugger off"!

Just the girls "F you"!

Now everybody sing!
 
By Saker on March 17, 2010 10:11 PM
I like that song! Happy St. Paddy's Day to you too.

I suppose there are a lot of people in uniform who can't celebrate in the traditional way tonight. Does anyone think it would be a good idea to remove the alcohol ban in warzones?

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/03/military_webb_alcohol_warzones_031010w/
 
By BillT on March 18, 2010 1:17 AM
DLS, Saker -- in Boz, I used to send two of my section for ten days at a time to Banja Luka, which was under Canadian Rulez. They augmented our Northron cousins' flight ops section and got to have beer. In return, I got a Canadian corporal for ten days to help with keeping my intel map and ATO (Air Tasking Order) current.

My guys got to have beer after work and the corporal got to eat real cheeseburgers. Everybody rotated through at least twice, and no one ever abused the privilege -- except for the time Corporal McK_____ challenged the entire Portuguese QRF to a snowball war and decided to make his Last Stand behind my desk.

Heh. I still need to do a post on The Great Camp Comanche Beer Massacre...
 
By Justthisguy on March 18, 2010 4:03 AM
Those big healthy-lookin presumably-Irish gals look like they could kick the ass of that guy with the mouse ears.  I mind a rasslin match I had years ago with a gal of Irish extraction. It was fun. Rules I insisted on were no blows, and no bending joints the wrong way. I forget who won.  No, it did not lead to getting mutually nekkid, but I still remember it fondly.
 
By Justthisguy on March 18, 2010 4:17 AM
Chief Bill, were you there when Skippy, of His List, was there?  He has a website, you know. I shudder to think of meeting you, and Skippy, and Madmike Williamson at an SF convention with alcohol present. No, I 'm not drinking out of any bottle not first opened in my presence.
 
By BillT on March 18, 2010 4:46 AM
Yeah, *that* Skippy was in Sarajevo -- I was in Tuzla, with the Other Skippy, who was our POL Officer.

My battalion commander once accused me of being *that* Skippy, purely in jest, of course.

At least, I presumed it was in jest...
 
By John of Argghhh! on March 18, 2010 6:53 AM
JTG, DADT not yet having been repealed, I'm pretty sure the "guy with teh mouse ears" is a girl - given the earring, hair, and, um, bumps up front. Yer ISR assets need some tuning. Or yer analyst does.
 
By BillT on March 18, 2010 7:25 AM
I'm pretty sure the "guy with teh mouse ears" is a girl

Them's the typical shamrock antennae of an Eire-ish elf...
 
By Saker on March 18, 2010 9:10 AM
Time for a TINS, Bill!
 
By Justthisguy on March 18, 2010 7:22 PM
No, I mean the one in back.
 
By John of Argghhh! on March 18, 2010 7:45 PM
JTG- the guy in the back isn't wearing ears.  If you mean the one on the right...  what I said.
 
By Justthisguy on March 18, 2010 8:55 PM
I do mean the one on the right, in the rear as they are advancing. I'll take yer word for it, you must have a higher-def larger version of the pic or something.  I prefer the healthier-lookin Irish gals like the ones in the van and, well, yours.