BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter

Subject: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: Fossil
Date: 11 Feb 04 - 01:20 PM

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?

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Feb 04 - 01:37 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: Gervase
Date: 11 Feb 04 - 01:45 PM

He was priceless - Staff Sgt S.Laughter is clearly to military public relations what Douglas Bader was to tap-dancing!

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 Feb 04 - 08:09 PM

Doctor D'eath!

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: LadyJean
Date: 12 Feb 04 - 12:42 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 12 Feb 04 - 12:56 AM

Once knew a Royal Naval Gunnery Chief called De'Ath.

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 12 Feb 04 - 12:59 AM

Is he any relation to "Corporal Punishment", or "Major Cock Up"?

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: HuwG
Date: 12 Feb 04 - 09:30 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Feb 04 - 11:19 AM

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....

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: GUEST,G-string
Date: 12 Feb 04 - 11:37 AM

When I was in the Marines we had a Major Alan Peter Ness.

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Feb 04 - 11:46 AM

"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...

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: GUEST,Colonel Chinstrap
Date: 12 Feb 04 - 12:03 PM

Sergeant,
         We are going on a joint services exercise. Would you alert Major Larf and Seaman Staines.

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: Billy Weeks
Date: 12 Feb 04 - 12:52 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 12 Feb 04 - 02:57 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 13 Feb 04 - 03:23 AM

Maybe he's relative to General Desaster?

Wilfried

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: Bobjack
Date: 13 Feb 04 - 04:12 AM

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Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: GUEST,09086532
Date: 13 Feb 04 - 09:51 AM

Indeed Norton1, they're marching alright.

But if you take away the cause, you remove the symptom.

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 14 Feb 04 - 05:47 AM

There was a great pro wrestler from Halifax called Shirley Crabtree,
no one took the piss out of him at all.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: alanabit
Date: 14 Feb 04 - 07:49 AM

...without a dialysis machine... "Big Daddy", wasn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 14 Feb 04 - 09:42 AM

Correct, ex Sgt Major in the Guards. I'll bet they didn;t take the piss either.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: Jim McCallan
Date: 14 Feb 04 - 09:51 AM

Well, when you are 'a boy named Sue', you have to sink or swim

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 15 Feb 04 - 04:46 AM

Then you had better keep out of the water sue.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Staff Sergeant Slaughter
From: Fossil
Date: 16 Feb 04 - 05:12 AM

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....