I don't posses the talent of David Letterman and thus, I am struggling to come up with a top 10 list. I'll just settle on the 60% solution.
On a routine basis we interact with members of the Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army. It is always a pretty entertaining affair b/c of the language barrier. Naturally, we strive for common themes and both sides understand some of the basic terminology of the others language. Nevertheless, here is my top 6 list of English words that my compatriots know quite well ... I hope that you find them very entertaining :
6. Chocolate
5. All of the standard curse words (they might as well make the complete list)
4. Israeli’s
3. Hollywood - in the context of that is where all the hot women are
2. Cigarette
1. Ice Cream
The other facet of this affair is the difference in animation of the speaker. The Arabs seem like they are always yelling and making wild gestures with there arms/hands. Writing about it doesn't do any justice. I think that it would be fun to tape the event w/out sound and do a little Mystery Science Theatre 2000 action.
Some various other in's and out's of the day follow:
On Monday's the military TV stations replay the Sunday Morning news shows. Naturally, the talks focus on Iraq. It is surreal to watch people talk about Iraq especially when you consider that only a very precious few have even been to Iraq. To follow that - the ones that have been to Iraq get the VIP tour. Its hard to watch.
New policy on Camp is that you have to work out in the standard green over green outfit. I'm not sure that some of you want to even picture me in that outfit. Let's just leave it at this: the green shorts are made to fit Carmen Electra - not my husky build. I'll expand it to say that I am not thrilled. Despite this policy, I was able to do my best Sean-like work and create a work around - I get to wear my Navy PT gear, as I am not even an attachment to the Battalion. Screw it - who cares USNA still writes my FITREP. It works out well for me ... thank goodness the Navy doesn’t have a standard PT uniform. I guess as long as it says something about Navy or is blue or gold - I'm good to go.
Tomorrow is Turkish Haircut day - fun and exciting times.
Meg, your comment about Muggles - Priceless. Duane, PB4T - quite possibly ones of the funniest things I've heard in a while. Dad - I'm just about out of crayons. BTW spell check isn't working right now - so bare with my less than typing skills. Further, I don't feel like proofreading tonight. I'm going to watch Jackass 2.
One of my favorite places
A new appreciation for Plumbing
6 comments:
I thought you lived with a lot Jackasses; so why more torture?
You should PT plebe year style... a blue rim tucked into your shorts and your socks hiked up to your knees... hell, you are already got the haircut, motivator.
If you didn't pack a pair of White Works Echo into your seabag before deploying, you are remiss my friend. As far as I'm concerned that's the only authorized PT uniform for IA'd USNA personnel around. Let me know if you need Katie to make a midstore run for you...
Also, what's up with the Iraqi's number one English word being "ice cream"? That seems a little, well, not straight? Don't tell them that though, I'd imagine they'd get a little more animated than usual...
spoke to Sean today, he said "me like the weight room, they give me big guns. Like the big guns the Merchant Marines have."
at first i found it incredibly hard to believe that you ever watched MST3K... then i realized you had typed 2000, and it all became clear.
you never did. nerd poseur.
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