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cryptowonderdruginvogue 12.01.2006 04:16 PM

the troops need silly string!!!
 
http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_334011318.html

its fun.... and good for you!

king_buzzo 12.01.2006 04:18 PM

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Because it's light weight and it helps detect wires when they're going through a doorway without setting off the explosive ordinance,”

that was funny as hell

cryptowonderdruginvogue 12.01.2006 04:42 PM

rock on

gmku 12.01.2006 04:45 PM

This is going on a tangent, but you know one of my pet peeves? How the media changes words.

Troop is supposed to mean a group of soldiers.

For the longest time, when newscasters and even news magazines and such would use the word troops, I'd be confused. "3,000 troops." Wow, I'd think that's a lot of soldiers--3,000 groups of what, 50, 100, or more soldiers? Then I realized they meant 3,000 soldiers.

Troop is a collective noun. It means a group of soldiers. You have a troop of soldiers, or troops of soldiers, but it's technically wrong to call soldiers troops.

Please help me correct this irriitating mistake by using soldier when you mean one soldier, and troop when you mean a group of them. I'd really appreciate it.

!@#$%! 12.01.2006 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku
This is going on a tangent, but you know one of my pet peeves? How the media changes words.

Troop is supposed to mean a group of soldiers.

For the longest time, when newscasters and even news magazines and such would use the word troops, I'd be confused. "3,000 troops." Wow, I'd think that's a lot of soldiers--3,000 groups of what, 50, 100, or more soldiers? Then I realized they meant 3,000 soldiers.

Troop is a collective noun. It means a group of soldiers. You have a troop of soldiers, or troops of soldiers, but it's technically wrong to call soldiers troops.

Please help me correct this irriitating mistake by using soldier when you mean one soldier, and troop when you mean a group of them. I'd really appreciate it.


ha ha, you are right. they are probably playing into the hands of this bullshit:

 


see??? each fool is "an army", hence, ha ha, a troop

gmku 12.01.2006 04:52 PM

Yeah, I mean no disrespect to any of you in uniform out there, but the people who are your bosses are a bunch of dumb fucks, basically.

cryptowonderdruginvogue 12.01.2006 05:02 PM

hey hey!
watch it, mister!

Savage Clone 12.01.2006 05:09 PM

Truth hurts.

cryptowonderdruginvogue 12.01.2006 05:10 PM

..... i will not have this!

gmku 12.01.2006 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by cryptowonderdruginvogue
hey hey!
watch it, mister!


Oh, are you a general or something, crypto? Sorry, man. You're okay. It's the rest of you...

!@#$%! 12.01.2006 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku
Oh, are you a general or something, crypto? Sorry, man. You're okay. It's the rest of you...


he's joking. but given the history of some people on this board (the old board anyway), it was difficult to tell at first.

gmku 12.02.2006 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
he's joking. but given the history of some people on this board (the old board anyway), it was difficult to tell at first.


Sorry, I just didn't get why crypto was taken aback by my attack on army bosses (generals et al). Or do you mean he was joking? Then later I got to thinking maybe crypto's the son of an army general. In any regard, the use of troop that is still in vogue and the "army of one" branding slogan remain idiotic corruptions of English.

jon boy 12.02.2006 01:16 PM

anyone stupid enough to want to join the army should be let in. arnt they all just hired killers anyway?

cryptowonderdruginvogue 12.02.2006 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by jon boy
anyone stupid enough to want to join the army should be let in. arnt they all just hired killers anyway?


want to be ignore buddies?
you dont read what i say, i dont read what you have to say

gmku 12.02.2006 01:19 PM

Oswald, for instance. Tough I think he was a marine. Earned expert marksman when he served, I think.

jon boy 12.02.2006 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by cryptowonderdruginvogue
want to be ignore buddies?
you dont read what i say, i dont read what you have to say


who said that?

gmku 12.02.2006 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by cryptowonderdruginvogue
want to be ignore buddies?
you dont read what i say, i dont read what you have to say


Crypto, I love you. I'm just not understanding your connection to all this. Are an Army kid? In the Army? (If so, I think your haircut is out of regs, son!)

cryptowonderdruginvogue 12.02.2006 01:21 PM

no, but i respect the people who join the military.

and this "jon boy" guy has been on my case the past couple of days, im kind of sick of it.

cryptowonderdruginvogue 12.02.2006 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by jon boy
who said that?

:rolleyes:

Savage Clone 12.02.2006 01:22 PM

Crypto, why have you not joined the military if you support it so very much?
You are the right age, nothing holding you back....


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