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The joke's ubiquity has led to real-life humorous consumption of crayons and has been referenced by the Marine Corps itself in celebration of National Crayon Day. Multiple products have capitalized on the trend, including two lines of edible crayons created by former Marines and a coloring book by Uriarte.
Military jokes might be sometimes quite blunt, e.g. British soldiers used to make a joke about the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) military decoration, to say of a comrade wounded down the belly that he had received DSO, DSO meaning "Dickie Shot Off." In other jokes however, the lack of seriousness is more subtle.
"Gee, Mom, I Want to Go Home" (also known as "I Don't Want No More of Army Life") is a traditional, humorous song satirizing life in the Armed Forces. Each verse has two lines relating what recruits are told, followed by an exaggerated description of the fact. For example: The biscuits in the Army They say are mighty fine, One rolled off the table
During his half-decade with the Marines, he served as an embassy guard in Russia during the Cold War and fought in Vietnam, earning accolades for rescuing a wounded marine while under enemy fire.
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's King Charles joked he had been "allowed out of his cage" on Thursday as he visited a military training college on his latest engagement since returning to public duties ...
The best corny jokes, knock-knocks, one-liners and dad jokes for kids, adults and everyone else in need of a good laugh. The best corny jokes, knock-knocks, one-liners and dad jokes for kids ...
Terminal Lance is a comic strip and website created in 2010 by Maximilian Uriarte that satirizes United States Marine Corps life. Uriarte publishes the strip in the Marine Corps Times newspaper and on his own website, TerminalLance.com. The name is a slang term for a Marine who finishes an enlistment (i.e. terminates) as a lance corporal (E-3).
[6] Most reference works, including the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, supply an origin date of 1940–1944, generally attributing it to the United States Army. [citation needed] Rick Atkinson ascribes the origin of SNAFU, FUBAR, and a bevy of other terms to cynical G.I.s ridiculing the Army's penchant for acronyms. [7]