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PostPosted: Thu May 27, 2010 5:29 pm 
Another John Wayne film that we failed to mention was one of the classics he made with Howard Hawks - Rio Bravo. Any film with the Duke and Dean Martin is bound to be entertaining!

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Big John Wayne fan here, always have been. My all time favorites are almost anything he was in that John Ford directed. I'm not such a fan of his later films, mid 60's and afterwards. Although, I have always enjoyed his Rooster Cogburn movies.

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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 2:03 pm 
Seabees are like educated marines. CE4 Groce <blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by cameronm</i>
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PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2010 6:42 pm 
Gentlemen,

We are gathered here today to honor a fine new officer to our Army -

Major Joe Medeiros! Front and Center!

Since the start of the Army's new award system there has not yet been a major army award given to any officer (according to Army records). These awards were created to recognize officers in our Army of merit and talent.

Major, you have shown yourself to be a fine addition to this Army and your victories against two Yankee generals in your short time in the Club is a remarkable feat and worthy of high recognition! It is with great happiness I announce that the Army Commander and the I Corps Commander have bestowed upon you the Old Reliable Medal of Service. This award is presented to officers who display "exemplary conduct, efficiency, and fidelity in the performance of their duties while actively engaging the enemies of the CSA." Congratulations to you, Major Medeiros, for being the first recipient of the Old Reliable Medal and we expect many more such honors to be placed on you in the future!

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<i>"DETAAAAAAIL, HALT! DISSSMOUNT!"</i>

<i>"Sergeant Haggerty, keep that Flag-of-Truce guidon visible, and don't let the escort detail stray too far. I'll have Captain Jessup bring the boys out a few bottles of beer, if our Southern friends mind their manners. Captain Jessup, come with me!"</i>

GREETINGS, BOYS! I just rode over to pay a courtesy call and take a look around...<i>("Damn, it's dark and musty in here! Captain Jessup, go ahead and kick out some of the sideboards if you will, and wake up those two slumbering over there at that corner table.")</i>...and I brought something with me that you might find useful! Now take it easy, we're not here to harm anyone.

The thing is that while we've got our fair share of respect for this here Rebel army that we're starting to hear a lot of bragging concerning an upcoming tournament in the Western Theater! Now we've always...<i>("What's that, Captain? You say that's McOmish and Hooper over there in the corner?!! Dead drunk are they? Alright, just let 'em sleep it off.")</i>...as I was saying, we've always figured that about half of what you fellas say is true. It's the other half of your pronunciations that we have a problem with.

No, no! I ain't seen no nuns eat'in any rations! I said, PRO-NUN-CI-A-TIONS! That's a big word that means, in this case, telling fibs! <i>("Captain Jessup, watch that young lieutenant at the bar!")</i> Now come on, boys, I know you're probably upset at my walking around in here, kicking up dust from your dirt floor and letting in a lot of obnoxious fresh air, but you've got to hold on for a minute while I show you what I've got.

First, though, I'm going to have Captain Jessup get some bottled beer from the bar there and take it out to my escort detail. We've rode hard and we're kinda thirsty ourselves...and we didn't do no shoot'in on the way in. What <i>you</i> should do now, if you know your manners is to offer that beer free of charge!

Well, I can see some of you are shaking your heads, "Yes," and some of you shaking your heads, "No." Kinda like a bunch of bewieldered, bobble-headed dolls. HOLD IT, HOLD IT! I DIDN'T MEAN NOTHING BY THAT! PUT THAT PISTOL BACK IN YOUR HOLSTER! JUST WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO, START A WAR?! That's better, that's better...let's all just simmer down for a minute and take a look at what I brought you.

Now I'm going to reach in my coat's breast pocket here and show you what I've brought. There, there it is...it's a little <u>Book of Manners</u>!

HERE, HERE...DON'T YA ALL BE CROWDING AROUND LIKE THAT! I'LL LET EVERYONE TAKE A LOOK AT IT IN GOOD TIME! NOW MOVE BACK A BIT!

OK! That's better! Now I'm going to hold it up so you can all see it and open it up to the title page. Now that big, black word there in the middle says, "Manners"...What's that? Yes, there are other words on the other pages...No, there're not in different colors and there ain't no pictures! Look, boys, in order to understand what the rest of these words all say you got to be able to read, you got to be educated! What? NO, I AIN'T SEEN ED, KATE OR TED! NO, now let go of the...

LOOK WHAT YA DONE NOW! You torn the book in two and...stop ripping those pages out! OK, OK! Look, maybe you can get someone from VMI to take a look at everything and explain it all to you. But Captain Jessup and I, here, we've got to be leaving now...SAY, ISN'T THAT MISS CLARISSA FROM THE AOG OVER THERE BY THE BAR? She ain't changed much since the last time I saw her...same toothless grin behind that rotten old corncob pipe and hair sticking straight up out of that hole in her hat. Lord, a'mighty,...if they ever put her into the ranks we'd all die out of sheer fright!

Boys, I'm leaving ya with a little something that the Cavalry Divisions from the good, old Army of the Tennessee wanted you to have.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVnq-vNKDps

("Captain Jessup, watch you step on the way out of here. There's been reports of gators in these places.")

"MOUNT 'EM UP, HAGGERTY! LET'S HEAD BACK HOME! COLUMN OF TWO's, FORRRRWARD, HO,OOOOH!"



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 1:02 pm 
Remain seated, boys, let them ride away in peace. Lord knows they need the head start! The affectation they proclaim with their book of manners is hardly apparent as they arrived both unannounced and uninvited! They would do well to read that little book of theirs before seeking to preach to others. But, then again, that’s what the Yankees do best – try to tell others how to live! The virulent nature of their cacophony will not be lost on us here today. Let it be a reminder to us all of why we are fighting our war for Independence!

Their jaundiced nature is simply a product of the many defeats we have handed them over the past years. Caution! We mustn’t judge them too harshly. After all, the moribund nature of the Union Armies is becoming more evident every day and the war of attrition within this Club is quickly swinging to our advantage! As the years go past and the Union ranks dwindle we will soon, at last, win the victory we have fought for all these years!

I will say it again, for those who fail to catch my meaning, the Union Armies are defeated! They now have only a few boasting braggarts left to try to carry on their battles. Behind their facade are armies of uncommitted members, poor mustering, weak participation, and high desertion. We now have only to keep pouring the fight into them and they will wither away.

Look now at the opponent finder forum and you will see more evidence of the collapsing Union Cause. We seek them everywhere but find fewer and fewer men willing to meet us in battle. Let them come at us with their books and manners until hell freezes over! We will come at them with the sword and a Dictionary! Their poor Yankee educations must be stretched to the breaking point by the nature of the conversation in this tavern. We must remember to use smaller words in the future when we speak with such veracity of the Union Cause so they will understand.

Now, gentlemen, mount up! Let’s go corner that band of renegade Yankees and teach them how manners are observed down South!


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HUH???? They don't teach that at MTSU!

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 4:14 pm 
You are mistaken, sir. I did learn such things at MTSU. This is the same school that prides itself on maintaining the Nathan Bedford Forrest ROTC despite all of the attacks on it by liberal name-changers! They arm us well to go out into the world and fight to maintain our rights [:)]

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Personally I'd rather practice attrition upon -well - thou, as opposed to any sort of niceties ... it just seems disingenuous to do anything else.

I don't even care about causes - seems that if you de-Southerner the South it makes it a more livable place -and mind you, apparently years later Ned Beatty won't be called upon to bend over and squeal like a pig -so I reckon "manners" as you define them are a bit of a relative thing.

:] Being Aussie -I don't salute my own side too often, you got next to no chance with getting one ;)

See yaz in line of fire ... come on over - the ANV you ain't ;) .



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 3:11 am 
De-Southernize the South, sir? What a crying shame that would be. If you wipe life out in the South imagine the changes in world History. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gen. George Patton, Gen. William Westmoreland, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Pesidents Woodrow Wilson, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, the first female Justice on the Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor, Martin Luther King, and Louis Armstrong (just to name a few) would all never be born. Can you imagine the world today without such figures?

But, then again, you saw 'Deliverance.' So obviously your correct about the South. God knows Hollywood never seeks to make the South look ridiculous....

I'm off to watch 'Crocodile Dundee' and learn all about Australia now [:D]

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 7:24 am 
Officers of the Army of the Mississippi,

We are assembled today to honor those officers who received awards during the month of May. It was a tough month for us on the battlefields as we posted an 8 - 12 record. Nonetheless, we remain ahead for the year with one more victory than defeats! We also had no lack of officers bringing more glory to our Army during the last month.

To begin -
Hampus Drott has earned his three-year service ribbon for his time spent with the Army. Congratulations, sir, and thank you for your continued service!

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Drott also earned his first Citation for a Victory against a Union opponent (since the new award system began) and has thus earned another ribbon.

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Finally Drott completed his fifth maneuver against another Army member and has been awarded the ribbon for this achievement. Joe Medeiros, Robert Hardee, and Blake Strickler also earned this ribbon in May.

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Officers earning their first ribbon for completing a maneuver include Mike Laabs, Bill Keys, and Earle Cook.

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The Award for the Purple Heart in May goes to Blake Strickler for a 50-turn losing effort against a Union General.

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Strickler also earned the Outstanding Brigade Award for May by completing eight battles, yes eight, against Yankee opponents. In this he posted a 3-1-4 record.

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Kennon Whitehead was awarded his second citation for Gallantry in May for having the most turns completed in a victorious effort against a Union opponents.

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Congratulations to all the officers earning awards this month and let’s continue to battle against the Yanks with the same fine spirit that has helped to make this Army the finest in the Confederacy!

Dismissed Gentlemen!


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Actually I lived in MOKAN area for 16 years and noticed the parallels with that movie (visiting the Lake of the Ozarks area ... toilet bowl planters, bath tub shrines ... and lots of defunct rusty vehicles -and guys that wrestle channel cats from their mud holes) , not to mention Jeff Foxworthy jokes having a distinct ring of truth to them. (In other words I did know of people who could reassemble a carburettor while sitting on the "throne"). . .

Not so much of a film buff, but more of a PTSD sufferer ;)






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PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 2:23 pm 
Yes, I agree Stephen, lots of Rednecks out there. Oddly though, and I have lived alot of places in America, they aren't just in the South. I am living up in Pennsylvania right now and I saw a man walking a pig the other day on a leash. I dont know why or what for but there he was doing it down a residential street. Generally I classify people, and this comes from many years in retail, into two groups: the Respectable Group and the Trash. Economics, race, religion have nothing to do with the groups at all I have discovered. It just goes back to how people were raised by their families if you ask me. Thats just my opinion though. I am sure I have offended someone now [:p]

MOKAN area? No wonder you were traumatized with all those St. Louis Cardinal fans. I would be to! Lets Go Cubs!





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Ok for us real Southerners - southern hemisphere - what are "channel cats"[?]

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