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WCDT Strips 3971-3975 (April 1st-5th)
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: SeaWoodStage on 01 Apr 2019, 11:49 ---I've never been in the military or been close to anyone who was, but I suppose a certain type of joke gets very old very fast. I imagine humour is extremely important in military relationships, and it must keep evolving.
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In the US military a good joke or prank is nearly immortal. There's a constant turn-over of personnel and the victim can always look forward to pulling it on some poor Sad Sack who takes their place as the newbie, so classics are constantly recycled. For example, the Air Force and aviation branches of the other services all take fiendish delight in sending new arrivals for ten gallons of prop wash or a few hundred feet of flight line. There's a female civilian employee at many facilities named Ms H. Wate, usually in the supply or personal equipment section. Noobs and even others who become a little too impatient to obtain a popular given item or items of issue will be told to go to Helen Wate.
hakko504:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 01 Apr 2019, 23:54 ---Noobs and even others who become a little too impatient to obtain a popular given item or items of issue will be told to go to Helen Wate.
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I assume she's a (distant) relative of Michael Hunt?
traroth:
Is taring and feathering some kind of tradition? We don't do that on our side of the Atlantic. Well I sure heard about it in comics or western movies, but it really seems kind of unhealthy, or even deadly. Isn't the tar hot? Can such an ordeal be survived?
BenRG:
Tarring and feathering is a traditional US means for communities to express extreme disapproval of certain individuals who have caused (or are believed to be causing or likely to cause) great harm to the community. Traditionally, it's aimed at con-artists and persistent low-level troublemakers. However, it can also be targetted at unpopular travelling preachers, vagrants and members of minorities that the community rejects.
Yes, it is dangerous and can be deadly. The tar will cause body-wide burns and people have lost large chunks of skin and been permanently scarred and crippled. Think of it as a method of lynching that is not at least intended to be lethal.
traroth:
Ok, after a quick search, it seems that we do that on this side of the Atlantic, too. The last reported case was in Ireland in 2007...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarring_and_feathering
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