'Scuse Me, You're right, I was confusing you with Straightup. I was wondering where the 49 came from. I have a memory like a sieve except for political things, so you may notice elements appearing as being dazed and confused. But I do have it right that you two are of the same ilk and I can clean the clock of either one of you in a political debate. You might want to check out what I had written to him including what I posted on the middle of page 9. I would imagine you two agree on the refugee issue, which means you would need a little educational straightening out as well as he. I have long since realized the dark netherworld part of truth is something liberals are unwilling to realize or come to terms with. To be liberal is to have a problem with reality.

Nope. 'Sub'marine same as 'under' Marine. 'Under' same as 'less than'. 'Less than' is not Marine. Sorry, you don't get. Only 'standard' Marine qualifies and only then if he answers the question correctly. Woe betide the Marine who fails the question. 'Sides, you Navy, you got the drink. Not as secret as the noise, not as hard-core as the tool is for the Army, or as profound as the word is for the Air Force, but it's all you got.

There's a reason the Navy don't get to know about the noise, the tool or the word, because the Navy don't know how to keep a secret. Case in point, everybody knows about the drink. That's an exclusively Navy thing yet the whole world knows about it.

I couldn't even cut you slack and ask the question because that's against the rule and if I break the rule, SSGT Good USMC will be obliged to kill me on sight to defend the noise. You see how this could get out of hand?

Just to show that it is not just a Marine joke, I was the engineman on a lcm that took the seals out off the coast of Coranado great bunch of guys and they had a joke just about like this Marine one. Hell week we took them out any where form a mile to some times more not much but a real test to find that light on the beach they had to swim to, never would they tell the answer to us swabies. I don't remember the the full joke but i will never forget those seals, and it brings tears to my eyes every time i hear a seal dies. obumer and hellary need to answer for their lies and the death of Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.

Here is a classic joke for any Marine. Tell this joke to someone who is not a Marine:

A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a U.S. Marine Corps base.

He goes to the front gate, and says to the sentry, "My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the night?"

To his surprise, the Marines accept him enthusiastically. They feed him at the officer's club, they fix his car at the motor pool, and they even allow him to sleep in the VIP quarters.

But, as the man tries to fall asleep that night, he hears a strange sound. All through the night, he hears this sound.

The next morning, he asks the Marines what the sound was, but they say, "We can't tell you. You're not a Marine."

The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his merry way.

Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same Marine Corps base. Again the Marines accept him enthusiastically, fix his car, and allow him to stay in the VIP quarters. That night, he hears the exact same strange noise that he had heard several years earlier.

The next morning, he asks what it is, but the Marines reply, "We can't tell you. You're not a Marine."

The man says, "All right, all right. I'm dying to know. If the only way I can find out what that sound was is to become a Marine, how do I become one?"

The Marines reply, "You must go to Parris Island, there to undergo several weeks of torturous behavior. You will be yelled at, put down, cut down, and physically exhausted.

From there you will go on to receive infantry training. You will learn how to fight, fight to survive, and fight to win. You will learn how to act the Corps, breath the Corps, eat the Corps, sleep the Corps, be the Corps. When you finish these trials, you will be a Marine."

The man sets about his task. He goes through boot camp, advanced infantry training, and is assigned to an MEU. While part of the MEU he is sent to fight in two small wars, and three "police actions."

Three years later, while on leave, he returns to the Marine Corps base where he last heard that strange, strange sound. Standing there in his dress uniform, he says, "I have joined the Corps, and I have paid my dues. I have fought for the love of God, Country, and the Corps".

The Marines reply, "Congratulations. You are now a Marine. We shall now show you the way to the sound."

The Marines lead the man to a wooden door, where the Base Commander says, "The sound is behind that door."

The man reaches for the knob, but the door is locked.

He says, "Real funny. May I have the key?"

The Base Commander gives him the key, and he opens the door. Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The man demands the key to the stone door. The Commander gives him the key, and he opens it, only to find a door made of ruby. He demands another key from the Commander, who provides it. Behind that door is yet another door, this one made of sapphire. So it went until the man had gone through doors of emerald, silver, topaz, amethyst...

Finally, a golden door. The Commander says, "This is the last key to the last door."

The man is relieved to no end. He unlocks the door, turns the knob, and behind that door he is amazed to find the source of that strange sound.

But I can't tell you what it is, because.... You're Not A Marine!