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Message no. 1
From: Marcel Emami <rab@***.INFORMATIK.UNI-MANNHEIM.DE>
Subject: [OT] Re: Join the Army, they said...
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 21:06:37 +0200
> Hence my character grumbling for the next few months...
> "Join the army, they said... see the world, they said... DRESS > UNIFORMS Vs.
ASSAULT RIFLES, THEY SAID!"
> Lady Jestyr

Excuse me, I have geard it several times, Heck Even one of my military
charakters did use it :
Join the impirial navy, they said, see the space, they said, dress neatly
white, they said (he was stormtrooper)

but where does it come from


Kruss und Guss
Rab

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Message no. 2
From: Kama <kama@*******.NET>
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Join the Army, they said...
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 10:52:03 -0400
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Marcel Emami wrote:

> > Hence my character grumbling for the next few months...
> > "Join the army, they said... see the world, they said... DRESS >
UNIFORMS Vs. ASSAULT RIFLES, THEY SAID!"
> > Lady Jestyr
>
> Excuse me, I have geard it several times, Heck Even one of my military
> charakters did use it :
> Join the impirial navy, they said, see the space, they said, dress neatly
> white, they said (he was stormtrooper)
>
> but where does it come from
>
>
There used to be an Army television ad here in the states (a recruitment
effort) that went:

Join the Army: go to strange and exotic places, meet new and interesting
people.

It did not take long for various variations to appear - particularly the
trick of just adding, to the end of the standard advertisement ". . . and
kill them!"

- Kama

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