Three guys from Iwo Jima

[Jonathan Lighter]

Actually there are five.  The man farthest from the camera is nearly
obscured.

JL

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> >>Have you considered the possibility that there aren't that many ways
> >>three guys can raise a flagpole?
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> Weren't there four marines/Marines in the photograph.
>
> A comedian whose name escapes me once noted, WRT his being confronted
> on the joint's parking-lot by its security staff:
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> "I didn't know how many bouncers it was going to take to kick my ass,
> but I knew how many they were going to use."
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> -Wilson
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