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Subject: [Leica] Re: Lee Harvey Oswald
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Oct 13 18:27:54 2006

LOL!


On 10/13/06 9:24 PM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote:

> Sometimes, just as is the LUG, it's the histrionics channel
> 
> B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> I'm pretty sure it's the History Channel....
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/13/06 5:55 PM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> Lee Ermy ..and I do think you are referring to the Military channel. The
>>> Hitory Channel is the National Geographic Pap Outlet.
>>> 
>>> B. D. Colen wrote:
>>> 
>>>    
>>> 
>>>> That guy is a former DI and has a show on the Hitler, uh, History 
>>>> Channel
>>>> called Mail Call...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 10/13/06 4:10 PM, "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>      
>>>> 
>>>>> I thought that the first 45 minutes of Full Metal Jacket were the best 
>>>>> 45
>>>>> minutes of comedy on cinema (of course, I wasn't the one of the guys 
>>>>> being
>>>>> yelled at). The guy who played the D.I. did such a convincing job, the
>>>>> marines
>>>>> down here decided to give him some sort of award. The guy was a no 
>>>>> show.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jeffery
>>>>> 
>>>>> ---- Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>> 
>>>>>        
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Well Larry
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> When we start believing movies it's time to pack it in. Oswald was a
>>>>>> "Marksman" which is the lowest qualification. "Expert" is the highest
>>>>>> and I doubt if one could do what the movie fellow stated. Especially,
>>>>>> with the old Italian Army rifle we all know and love. The FBI has some
>>>>>> really hot triggers and they could not duplicate the feat with that 
>>>>>> same
>>>>>> rifle.  As long as we are on the subject of FMJ the biggest surprise
>>>>>> came for me when the sniper was shot again before getting
>>>>>> banged.....Something else, where did the "fat boy" get the damn dough
>>>>>> nuts he hid in his locker? From the mess hall? Who dreams up this 
>>>>>> crap?
>>>>>> And a live round to shoot the D.I. ?????
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hell, I woke up in a lousy mood today but between this, and the baby
>>>>>> picture B.D. sent, I can do without my Valium. :-)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>     
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>          
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Oct 13, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Walt wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>       
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>            
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Yes, I was in the Marines when that happened. If Jesus showed up  
>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>> my
>>>>>>>>> font door and said "Walt, trust me, Oswald did it alone" I'd have 
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> call him a liar.
>>>>>>>>>          
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>          
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> What was that line from "Full Metal Jacket"? I paraphrase here
>>>>>>> because my memory is a bit fuzzy but I recall the marine rifle
>>>>>>> instructor informing his trainees that:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> "Lee Harvey Oswald got off two shots in a second and a half and hit
>>>>>>> President Kennedy at a distance of two hundred yards. AND HE WAS A
>>>>>>> MARINE!"
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Larry Z
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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