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Those Old School Guys Were Harder Than Woodpecker Lips
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Whoa, Boss! Glad Pandas bounce…
Thanks for this, Boss. My Dad is a WWII vet, and yes, they are tough as nails. God Bless them.
May they (including my dad) always get the respect and credit they deserve. And may we make sure that’s so. To include other Vets as well.
Good singing voice.
God bless them all ! (Especially you Dad)
Looks like Mr. (Paratrooper) Speranza has a shillelagh. A wee bit of extra credit.
I did a little research on Vince Speranza. Turns out he had an eventful war.
Occasionally, a hero gets some.
That’s thoroughly badass. Thanks, Percival.
You can get yourself a helmet mug and a beer here.
I love you, man.
Those Soldiers with Woodpecker lips made the world safe for Democracy.
For a little while anyway.
We need more men with Woodpecker lips to stand up for the trials to come.
And Brother, they are coming…
The trials and the men are both on their way…For example
My 5 year old nephew gives me incredible hope for the future; from the time he started talking, he said that he wanted to be a fireman. A year or so ago, I asked him if he still wanted to be a fireman. “Yes” he said. Then he paused for a moment, and said, “I want to save people, but I can’t do that right now because I am just a boy.”
On another occasion, we were all talking about some 90 year old who jumped out of a plane: my Dad is in his 90’s, so I looked at my nephew, and said, “What do you think? Should Grandpa jump out of a plane?” He thought about it for a minute, and then he looked at me very intently and said, “When I get big, I am going to jump out of planes.”
He has a heart of gold: they have him playing soccer, and he is good, but whenever another kid gets knocked down, he stops playing and runs over to the knocked down kid to see if he is ok. Drives my brother nuts, but it is so cute.
Little boys are perfect just the way they are. If people would just leave them alone, and let them be who they are, everything would be fine.
As a younger brother I feel I have to dispute this statement.
I have to share a funny story from my lovely bride’s Dad’s brother. Her uncle. (My uncle-in-Law ?). I only met him once. He was already very sick from the cancer that would take his life. But he wanted to meet the man who thought to marry his favorite niece. (I guess I passed muster). He had been in WW2. Airborne. (I didn’t catch the unit). He told this story…
During training, his first ‘jump’ was a training exercise where you wore the gear but jumped from a fixed tower. Four stories high. Instead of using the parachute, your harness got hooked to some device that simulated a real drop and lowered you to the ground. The hookup was two carabiners on the device, each hooked through a D-ring on the right and left shoulder strap of your harness.
Hundreds of guys in line, shuffling forward, waiting their turn. Finally he gets to the tower. Up the steps. At the top is some harried sergeant clipping guys in and tossing them off. When Uncle’s turn finally came the sergeant only got one ‘beaner clipped in! Uncle was clutching the empty D-ring shouting “Hey! Hey! I’m not hooked up!” Sargent says “Oh, don’t worry.” And waving his arm out over the long line of trainees below “We got lot’sa guys.” And shoved him over the edge! He came down on one strap, swearing a blue streak. He said after that, every other jump was easy.
That is funny.
I bet that guy needed a separate parachute just for his balls.
I can’t like this enough. Those dudes were harder than….
Woodpecker lips
Superman’s kneecap
Chinese trigonometry
Thank you, thank you, @percival. You know, his name, Vincente Speranza, means conquering hope.
as in the hope that conquers
No, I didn’t. Thank you.
Went to Bastogne and drank that beer out of the ‘helmet’ but never knew the story until now. Seems like a righteous MoFo, Mr. Speranza.