Heads Up, Sonny

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  1. Eric Blair10:25 PM

    Totally don't get the joke.

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  2. That's great.

    Eric, What makes the grass grow? Blood! Just ask any infantryman.

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  3. Eric was an infantryman -- mechanized, if I recall.

    It turns up in Full Metal Jacket, too, which is probably why most people really know it.

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  4. Gads, that's embarrassing. My apologies.

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  5. Well at least those of us who weren't in the infantry and don't remember lines from a movie we saw thirty years ago now know the answer. And I see the grass has sprouted in Raqqa, and a few other areas nearby last night. 31 strikes.

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  6. I was MI and I knew this from Basic Training (Fort Jackson, SC 1992).

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  7. Eric Blair5:47 PM

    Germany, 1991: "Kill! Kill! Kill! Blood makes the oil flow!"

    I did see Full Metal Jacket (in a theater with 400 other screaming GI's--When Ermy came out doing his thing everybody lost it), but I don't remember that line.

    Maybe it's a Marine thing.

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  8. I had to ask my husband, but he knew.

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