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Teufel Panzer MK4
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Re: Human Character
Posted: 27 Sep 06 9:35 PM

Ok, having been in the boy scouts, and gone out with the Soldier Boys that I call my brothers to go shooting at the range, I know I can hit the target. After having gone hunting with them, I know I can take a life, or at least, that of an animal in the form of a charging Elk with a rack about to skewer me... But given THAT senario, Erik, well... I'll leave that to Mr. Siggy Freud.
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Re: Human Character
Posted: 28 Sep 06 10:52 PM
 Finucane wrote
Mike:  A great story!  By the way, where did you pickup the phrase, "di di, mau"?


I was in the US Army in the immediate post-Vietnam-era, and there were lots of 'Nam vets in the infantry and field artillery units I was in.  "Di di mau" was a phrase used frequently by them, and consequently picked up by us newbies.
Finucane
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Re: Human Character
Posted: 29 Sep 06 3:14 AM
MC:  Interesting how language spreads from one generation and one enclave to another, isn't it?  The study of slang etymology is a long-standing hobby of mine that led to my contributions to A DICTIONARY OF SOLDIER TALK as well as Jonathan Lighter's RANDOM HOUSE HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG, and various articles in "Maledicta," "Verbatim," "Army Times," etc.
Teufel Panzer MK4
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Re: Human Character
Posted: 02 Oct 06 12:31 PM

'Chop Chop' meaning 'fast' or 'now' came from those silly Khmers, right? Cambodia?
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Re: Human Character
Posted: 04 Oct 06 6:23 PM
I think I will have to go find that dictionary for scrabble use and kick my families asses!
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