Willard has often said there are levels to humor.
1: Funny to anyone.
2. Funny only to someone who's been in the military, or someone who is very close to someone who has.
3. Funny only to someone who's been in combat.
4. Funny only to someone who was in combat with you.
I remember telling a joke that really offended the fiance of a friend.
A joke I thought nothing of because the color of military humor is BLACK!
Worried that I'd mistaken the situation, I told the same joke to several aviators and pilots, and one astronaut.
They all laughed.
Being a category 2 joke, she's never going to understand.
Now that I know that there's category 2 jokes, I don't tell them in mixed company any more.
I also cherish the day I was allowed to have a beer with my uncles and exchange category three stories.
And fuck! I'm the only one left. How did that happen?
All hard professions, the military, firefighters, cops, coal miners, railroad people, sailors (both gun sailors and cargo sailors) etc, all have dark senses of humor.
ReplyDeleteSickest I ever heard were butchers trading jabs in an old-school meat market.
It's sad that hard professions have been infiltrated by the sjw who fight the dark humor worse than that profession's enemies.
Hi Angus.....,
ReplyDeleteI needed that!! It explains a lot of "Stuff!!"
Besides being a Vietnam era WESTPAC Sailor I am an Old "SKYDIVER!!" First leap... 08MAY1964 and still have not found a reason (Good, Bad or Otherwise) to quit!!!!!!!
Skydiving "Humor" like the Military.. is Very Black!!!!!! Skydiving is heavily seeped with Military influence... eg "Airborne Paratroops!!!" Listen to the Airborne Choir doing "Blood On the Risers!!"
On occasion someone... "Goes In!!,".. "Bounces!!" and of course it's never pretty!! Whether it is a plane crash or parachuting ... there will be "Comments!!"
Go to www.dropzone.com ... go to the forums and down to the History and trivia form scroll down till you find (it is usually within a couple of pages) "Scary Stories from the old Days!!" by "Steve1" .. it has been around for a while and is up to 62 pages long now... about page 10 I published a few under my handle "skybill" ... while yer at it there's a few by my friend Jim "airtwardo" ... make sure you have enough whiskey and beer handy... you will be reading for a while!!
Somewhere in that post I think is the story of "The Bird Bath!!!" ... This kid made a rally nice Ginger Bread Man, Cookie Cutter Crater .. feb. of 83 at Scare-Us-Valley in the plant nursery on the other side of the canal after it had rained for a few dayz... the ground was really "SOFT!!' Needless to say he made a "Lasting impression!!" After he got peeled out.. that evening there were many "Crater Lurks!!!" Ol' "DOC!!" saw the Crater and got a wild idea.. went to town and bought all the "Plaster of paris" he could find,,, mixed it up and made a "Cast" of the crater from which he then made a "MOLD!" which became a "Bird bath!!!!!!!!!!!!
As we say in Skydiving... This is a "No Shit Story!!"
BLUE SKYZ,,,,BLACK DEATH!!!!!!!!,
skybill... PCA/USPA B-4240, C-3114, D-6009, Double Diamond Wings..3000 freefall skydives #451, Quadra diamond freefall badge "60 hrs, cumulative free fall time # 230.. SCR-2034, SCS-680 Member in Good Standing.. AIR TRASH!!!!!!"... www.airtrash.com head honcho of "DIXIE TRASH!!"
Song:
DeleteI once saw a pilot fall from 40,000 feet.
He kicked.
He screamed.
He clawed the air
My God, it was so neat...
My oh my, what a hell of a way to die...
"ANGUS!!!!!!!"
ReplyDeleteYou have awakened a "Sleeping Giant!!!!"
Picture if you will a bunch of WWII VETS who "WALKED THE WALK and "JUMPED!!!!"
Vince "Nuts" Speranza WWII Class ADT 2016-03
watch this!! Make sure your whiskey on ice is full-tilt-boogie!!!
youtube.com/watch?v=XayVafPHfgQ
Should work....
skybill....
PS Not quite, but I'm getting to the point where the "Cane" will be necessary to navigate tera firma!!
BLUE SKYZ...
BLACK DEATH!!!!!!
skybill
Angus,,,,,
ReplyDeleteVince "Nuts" Speranza leading his WWII buddies in "Blood on the Risers" as only those who were There Know it!!....
youtube.com/watch?v=XayVafPHfgQ
Then!!!!!
youtube.com/watch?v=XQ-eevJHMV0&feature=em-share_video_user
at the 1:42 mark is "Bob Burmaster" he just made "Captain USARMY!!" 1:51 mark is "ME!!" SEPT 1996!!!! Tony said ," Let's make a set of flyin' "Captain's Bars!!" so what you see is 2 groups of 10 troops 5 and 5 side by side connected at the center by cross grips.. when Tony and I let go the dive is complete!!! And Me!! "Blue skyz, Black Death!!!!!
skybill
PS what ya' think??????