Comments on: Parking Lot

By: Snardo

Snardo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:32:46 +0000

I think the joke is lost on me. From what I understand, the Marines are far more selective/restricitive in their recruiting than the Army is. Look at either tattoo restrictions - the Marines have more restricitive rules, or criminal history restrictiions - again, the Marines are more selective.

By: mitch4

mitch4 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:02:29 +0000

@Astronomical — He’s still recovering from a head injury and doesn’t always use full syntax.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:33:44 +0000

Somehow, I don’t imagine the Coast Guard looking down on any of the other four, but that’s just me.
My dad was Army in WWII, and told his four sons there were only two things he would not be willing for forgive us for, and one of them was joining the Army. One of my brothers joined the Air Force; my dad said it was the only branch a modern human being would willing be in. My brother was peacetime AF medic in West Germany, back when there _was_ a West Germany. Went to uni on the GI Bill, wound up as a contract negotiator for the DoD. Socialism been berry berry good to him.

(By the way, the other thing my dad would not forgive - working in the Post Office. Yup, he was career USPS. When I came out to him, I joked, ‘hey, at least it’ll keep me out of the Army,’ and he had to agree that yes, there was an upside).

By: zbicyclist

zbicyclist — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:45:47 +0000

@buzz, doesn’t every service feel every other service is inferior?

By: buzz

buzz — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:15:39 +0000

The Army has traditionally razzed on the Marines as being an inferior service. There’s a classic story of an Army artillery instructor at Ft. Sill starting off his class by cracking a few Marine jokes, and one of the Army students, realizing there was a Marine office in the class, stood up and said, “Sir, there’s an M-a-r-i-n-e in the r-o-o-m.”

Since the younger character can’t drive because of his brain injury, I think the parking lot reference is along the lines of “do you want to walk home”?

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:30:04 +0000

paper-
boy @15
I think he’s say-
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By: paperboy

paperboy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:37:57 +0000

Jesse Cline#13- Are you saying Trudeau doesn’t even do his own lettering??

By: Molly J

Molly J — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:59:31 +0000

I’ve heard phrases along the lines of “I’d better be careful leaving. I’ll probably get jumped in the parking lot for saying that.” Maybe that’s the intended reference?

By: Jesse Cline

Jesse Cline — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:49:13 +0000

Doones-
bury is real-
ly hard to read
with all the hyph-
ens. Gary Tru-
deau has got-
ten so la-
zy. Photo-
shop has kern-
ning for a reas-
on. Use it.

By: Astronomical

Astronomical — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:19:27 +0000

I’m more confused by this:
“Sorry for what?”
“Being…marine. Army reject you.”

It makes no sense. I could understand if it said:

“Sorry for what?”
“Being a marine. Army reject you?”

“Sorry for what?”
“Being a marine, you Army reject.”

As it stands, it’s very confusing. Is the character supposed to have a strong accent or something?