Homestead wrote:
I don't remember John Wayne ever saying lock and load.
That came from the Vietnam era, as troops were pulled out of one hot zone and dumped into another.
That's usually all the time they had was to reload, before they were dropped off again into another hot zone.
John Wayne did do one Vietnam era movie about the Green Berets in Vietnam, but, even then, I don't remember that particular phrase being uttered in it.
I suppose you lefties have your own favourite phrases that your partial to.
Such as:
Run and hide in your safe place!
Quit before you succeed!
Cover your ears and say "nan nan na nan ya" real loud, so you don't hear something that might offend you.
Yell to your buddies and say, "Drop your guns" and then run away, screaming like a bunch of little French girls.
Or maybe you prefer Monty Pythons, "Run away, run away."
I don't remember John Wayne ever saying lock and l... (
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Or no words at all - just looking up at the sky and screaming AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH