My man R. Lee Ermy just bellowed at his viewers “…you grabasstic snotballs!!” I snapped the gear leg I was painting. For a moment I thought my father had risen from the grave, hunted me down like a dog, and was thundering these endearing USMC epithets at me again. Bless his sentimental old heart.
TOM
LOL!!!
Love his show but haven’t been able to see it in awhile.
LOL!!! Evry now and then R. L. Ermy catches me off guard and reminds me of a guy I used to work for. I cringe each and every time.
I want to get one of the R. Lee Ermy actions figures… He’s probably not the best one to have around when working on models though. Maybe one of those ‘Sounds of the Sea’ or ‘Rain Shower’ CDs would be more calming… I can just see myself nodding off while working on my P47 and smashing the kit with my head.
I’m just going to stick to NPR. It’s the safest.
~ Garth
There has been an email floating around lately depicting Master Guns Ermy as White House Press Secretary. He uses his typical salty language and disdain for media folks and lays it to them. It’s not too realistic, but still humorous. I can forward it to interested partys
Darwin [alien]
It looks like I @#%$ opened my %$#@& mouth to )(&^% soon and firmly inserted my #$%^@#&^ foot until it came out my &^%#@)(&. I can’t seem to find the above referenced email. Obviously I deleted it. I have asked the original sender to repeat, so maybe I can get the egg off of my face. Darwin [alien]
yardbird: Mitchell Cooke here, please send it to me. My address is MACooke@fuse.net, I’m in Cincinnati.
Speaking of R. Lee Ermey, a good friend of mine is a police SWAT and prison SRT (Special Response Team) weapons and tactics instructor, he’s in Vegas this weekend for a firearms trade show.
He called yesterday, and said that he had someone who I’d want to speak to. Next thing I know, I recognize the voice, saying “Hi, Mitchell, Lee Ermey here from Las Vegas, Semper Fi! Where are you, and what are you doing?”
Ermey is a spokesman for Glock, a fine, fine firearm, and my friend was talking with him about military weaponry. (this friend is ex-special forces)(Ranger)
My reply: “Wow, Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, I’m in Cincinnati, it’s sleeting here. I love “Full Metal Jacket”, it’s on my top ten list of movies.”
So I basically got to speak to “America’s Drill Sergeant” on the phone.
Wow.
at least Sgt Snorkle makes Sgt Ermey look like a pussy cat and he is as American as American can get and Sgt Ermey has had some pretty goofey movie rolls though [:D]
Yes, but in “Full Metal Jacket”, Sgt. Hartman taught me a whole new to cuss. And he’s intimidating to look at. Take a look at his page on the imdb.com (Internet Movie Data Base):
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000388/
Ermey is the top of the pile, IMHO.
Anyone have the Talking Action Figure ? I saw it a while back in the LHS & it was pretty hilarious.
Regards, Rick
Rick: New York City doesn’t have any LHS’s, but it’s overflowing with comic book/pop culture/nostalgia shops, and they employ more chubby dorks with attitudes as any LHS or comic shop anywhere. And every one of these places stocks the R. Lee doll. I don’t have it, however.
Garth: I actually had a radio talk show on a Pacifica station (KPFT-FM) and helped cover the ‘92 Republican Convention in Houston for NPR. I’m afraid if I were building models of these beautiful machines of wholesale slaughter while listening to NPR, they’d make me feel like a fascist. I put it on the radio when trying to impress girls with my sensitive side.[;)]
As for Sgt. Hartman, I was just keeping it clean out of deferance to FSM’s editorial staff of Wally, the Beav, Dean and Hank Venture, the Hardy Boys, etc. (I mean, have you ever actually READ FineScale Modeler? It looks great, but the writing? NOBODY talks like that in real life.[}:)][;)]) In fact, my father was much more like Hartman, and his language was just as creatively obscene. But if you’ve ever seen R. Lee interviewed, he hit it right on the head in that History Channel series on “Sergeants.” He said a good DI is “part standup comic” because he knows these young kids in his charge are bored and scared and tired and he needs to keep their attention. So it’s all very carefully rehearsed, but very, very funny.
My dad? The USAF officers’ school and pilot training never washed off of him the colorful vocabulary the Marine Corps painted on him several years earlier. In fact, pilots are notoriously creative linguistically, though sailors seem to get all the credit for it. He took it to his grave. And yes, he would say something like “you porky, worthless grabasstic snotball” and then expect me not to laugh, lest I get smacked again. And people would ask me why I never joined the Marine Corps. Surely they know not of what they speak. I simply laugh and say, “I spent 20 years in Basic, you think I would ever actually sign up for it?”
TOM
LOL my dad was a Seargent for over 20 years in the USAF the younger kids in his unit did whatever he said and the officers feared him and the pilots watched their mouth. LOL he was a big hit with the Saudi’s though during the first Gulf War he was almost godlike to them.
i love that guy, the faces he makes, and the halarious antics he comes up with just kill me. “Maggot” geing my favorite, and yes, “grabasstic” is classic.LOL later.
“I’m Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on, you will speak, only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be ‘sir’. Do you maggots understand that?”
“Sir yes sir.”
“Bull [censored] I can’t hear you, sound off like you got a pair.”
“Sir yes sir.”
“If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will become Marines, you will be weapons, you will be ministers of death, praying for war! But until that time you are pukes, you are the lowest form of life on earth, you are not even human [censored] beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabasstic pieces of amphibian [censored] !”
“Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you do not like me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair…”
This was all from memory, I’ve seen “FMJ” many times. Best boot camp movie ever made.
AGREED!! they couldn’t have trained an “actor” to do that part, they were lucky enough to find an actual DI that was an actor. pretty funny stuff for sure. later.
And then you combine the two…[censored]
but that’s for a different forum [;)]
WHAT,
SIR? You called me ME SIR!!! I AM NOT an officer and I work for a living!!!
I am too smart to ba an officer NOW drop and give me 50 NOW!
I do like “grabastic” though I have never figured out why Marine Sgts allow
troops to insult them by calling them Sir?
Good Hunting
G.W.
It may be that different branches have different procedures. Or simply that some DI’s want to be called “sir”, and some want to be called “sergeant”.
AMEN. When I saw this one for the first time I was with a friend who had been a Marine, me an Army type. We both realized we had broken into a sweat when Gunny Hartman addressed those boots in the barracks for the first time. Great scene!
who said that? WHO THE %$@& SAID THAT?! WHO’S THE SLIMY TWO TWINKLED TOE’D, PUKE PIECE OF #@$ WHO SIGNED HIS DEATH WARRENT? Oh the ferry %&$@ing god mother said it.
Outstanding, I will PT you all… I will PT you till you &%$#ing die! I will PT you all till your $#@ holes are sucking buttermilk.
Was it you, you scroungy little &%$#?
My favorite line(s)
I just watched it:
“Who said that? Who the f-- said that? Who’s the slimy little communist s-- twinkle-toed c–sucker down here that just signed his own death warrant? Nobody said it? The fair f–ing godmother said it. I will stamp you. I will PT you all until you f–ing DIE! I will PT you until your a–holes are sucking buttermilk…”
I love the way “slimy little communist s-- twinkle-toed…” just rolls out of his mouth. I have had a whole new outlook on cussing since I saw “FMJ”.