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11 Feb 04 - 01:20 PM (#1114174) Subject: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: Fossil Did anyone else hear the BBC's "Today" programme this morning? The abovementioned Staff was speaking as the US Army's spokesperson on the news item about the latest car bomb in Bagdad. Apart from the ghoulish quality of his name (surely destined to be one of the legendary job/name matches), this individual appeared to be utterly tongue-tied and when he did say anything he was clearly an honours graduate from the Donald Rumsfeld School of Rhetoric... Is there no-one in the US Army who's capable of giving a coherent explanation of what they are doing there? |
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11 Feb 04 - 01:37 PM (#1114188) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: Charley Noble You would be more pleased if Staff Sergeant Slaughter were replaced by Staff Sergeant Dudly Duright? Well, you're right. They could do better. Charley Noble |
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11 Feb 04 - 01:45 PM (#1114193) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: Gervase He was priceless - Staff Sgt S.Laughter is clearly to military public relations what Douglas Bader was to tap-dancing! |
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11 Feb 04 - 08:09 PM (#1114497) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: The Fooles Troupe Doctor D'eath! |
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12 Feb 04 - 12:42 AM (#1114611) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: LadyJean There was a pro wrestler called Sergeant Slaughter. I think he even became a GI Joe action figure. I wonder if this spokesman gave a fictitious name. |
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12 Feb 04 - 12:56 AM (#1114612) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: Shanghaiceltic Once knew a Royal Naval Gunnery Chief called De'Ath. |
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12 Feb 04 - 12:59 AM (#1114613) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Is he any relation to "Corporal Punishment", or "Major Cock Up"? |
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12 Feb 04 - 09:30 AM (#1114835) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: HuwG When I was in the (British) Armed Forces, half a lifetime ago, I briefly found myself in a Signals Squadron to which some wit had posted a Sergeant SMART and a Corporal DAFT. |
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12 Feb 04 - 11:19 AM (#1114907) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: GUEST When the bullets fly around you, and death stares you in the face, it's men like him you will be bloody glad are protecting you. Nuff Said.... |
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12 Feb 04 - 11:37 AM (#1114918) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: GUEST,G-string When I was in the Marines we had a Major Alan Peter Ness. |
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12 Feb 04 - 11:46 AM (#1114926) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: GUEST "When the bullets fly around you, and death stares you in the face, it's men like him you will be bloody glad are protecting you". I'm sure the Iraquis feel better, already. Nuff Said... |
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12 Feb 04 - 12:03 PM (#1114942) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: GUEST,Colonel Chinstrap Sergeant, We are going on a joint services exercise. Would you alert Major Larf and Seaman Staines. |
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12 Feb 04 - 12:52 PM (#1114976) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: Billy Weeks When I was in the army (good thing for them and me that it was for a relatively short time) I knew a Corporal Hole. He was not a nice man. No prizes for guessing his nickname. |
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12 Feb 04 - 02:57 PM (#1115058) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: Steve in Idaho Are we killing the messenger here? He's a troop with a tough enough job - It's just a name - And yes I reckon the Iraqis are celebrating - I see them on the television each day marching for their rights and working on change. Don't recall that being a thing of the past - Steve |
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13 Feb 04 - 03:23 AM (#1115172) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: Wilfried Schaum Maybe he's relative to General Desaster? Wilfried |
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13 Feb 04 - 04:12 AM (#1115193) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: Bobjack c.Nile R.Sole Hugh Jarse C.Lion T.Pott G.Raff S.Perm Lou Roll C.Mann Miss Shapen Rhoda Horse Juan Kerr P.Niss Ben Dover Dee St.Meal A.Nuss |
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13 Feb 04 - 09:51 AM (#1115232) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: GUEST,09086532 Indeed Norton1, they're marching alright. But if you take away the cause, you remove the symptom. |
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14 Feb 04 - 05:47 AM (#1115723) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: Dave Hanson There was a great pro wrestler from Halifax called Shirley Crabtree, no one took the piss out of him at all. eric |
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14 Feb 04 - 07:49 AM (#1115765) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: alanabit ...without a dialysis machine... "Big Daddy", wasn't it? |
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14 Feb 04 - 09:42 AM (#1115824) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: Dave Hanson Correct, ex Sgt Major in the Guards. I'll bet they didn;t take the piss either. eric |
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14 Feb 04 - 09:51 AM (#1115829) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: Jim McCallan Well, when you are 'a boy named Sue', you have to sink or swim |
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15 Feb 04 - 04:46 AM (#1116218) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: Dave Hanson Then you had better keep out of the water sue. eric |
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16 Feb 04 - 05:12 AM (#1116794) Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter From: Fossil Just to close off this thread. Guest - once the maddened hordes are marching up my street waving copies of the Al Quaeda Manifesto and demanding blood, the last person I'd want standing between me and them would be an inarticulate US Army PR flack, even if he was wearing a uniform. What would he do? Hurl copies of "MS Word for Dummies" at them? We haven't heard from S.S.S. since last week. Being a devotee of the cock-up theory of history, I reckon that he had nothing to do with the military press office and just happened to be the one standing next to the phone in an otherwise empty office when the BBC called. But I'm *still* waiting for a coherent explanation of what the Allied armies are doing there in Iraq.... |