"boots on the ground"

[Jonathan Lighter]

There's more than one kind of boob, and Fox has lots of 'em.

JL

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I assume when they wrote "slang" they meant "jargon".
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> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Jonathan Lighter <
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> > > "A recruit at a boot camp."
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> > Better:
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> > "A Navy or a Marines recruit in boot camp."
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> > Unless, of course, "at a boot camp" is the way that it's said in
> Britspeak.
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> > > The service paper "Stars and Stripes" adds that "boots on the ground"
> is
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> > "slang."   How would that be?
> >
> > The "Stars and Stripes" is the military equivalent of the Arlen [Texas]
> > "Bystander." Who knows what the writer may have meant?
> >
> > Meanwhile, the right wing has taken to demeaning the female component of
> > the military as
> >
> > "boobs on the ground"
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
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> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
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