Really?
So does that mean we, the community are hot?
I know the Post modern COIN avant-garde want to be "hot" as any group pushing an agenda does, but I no longer see them here on SWJ?
What I see, and why I am still here 2 years later, is a mostly a bunch of hard nosed pragmatists, pretty un-interested in silly "new war" ideas or much of the silly language that goes with it.
In fact, I am far from the only Clausewitian here and you don't get less "hot" than CvC.
Happy being "cool" though.
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
Wilf, it was the Conspiracy thread that did it....nobody noticed us before
Of course "we" - as I said - go figureOriginally Posted by William F. Owen
So does that mean we, the community are hot?
... Happy being "cool" though..
So is Lady Gaga gonna join SWJ? Maybe host a non-virtual?
Maybe a centerfold in the Journal?
Cool!
First, I'm TIME's Person of the Year (The American Solsier) and now I make RS's Hot List. Gonna really round out my otherwise pedantic resume!
P.s.
Wonder if we can "get our picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone"!
OK so most of you are to young to remember that.
Oh wow man...Rock and Roll!
Well we are big rock singers, we've got golden fingers
And we're loved everywhere we go
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
At ten thousand dollars a show
We take all kind of pills to give us all kind of thrills
But the thrill we've never known
Is the thrill that'll get you when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone
I've got a freaky old lady name o' Cocaine Katy
Who embroiders on my jeans
I've got my poor old gray-haired Daddy
Drivin' my limousine
Now it's all designed to blow our minds
But our minds won't really be blown
Like the blow that'll get you when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone
{Refrain}
We got a lot of little teenage blue-eyed groupies
Who do anything we say
We got a genuine Indian guru
He's teachin' us a better way
We got all the friends that money can buy
So we never have to be alone
And we keep gettin' richer but we can't get our picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone
{Refrain}
Rolling Stone
Wanna see my picture on the cover
Rolling Stone
Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Rolling Stone
Wanna see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Rolling Stone
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Last edited by Tom Odom; 05-29-2009 at 12:41 PM.
Thanks OE
I didn't realize that I (we) was/were so "hot"/"cool".
Cheers
JohnT
A little guidance here. Exactly how to we enter this on our resumes?First, I'm TIME's Person of the Year (The American Solsier) and now I make RS's Hot List. Gonna really round out my otherwise pedantic resume!
John Wolfsberger, Jr.
An unruffled person with some useful skills.
As Ken says for you young'ins Dr. Hook...Cover Of The Rolling Stone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ux3-a9RE1Q
One of my idiot friends put "Time's Person of the Year" under Awards and Distinctions, because Time's Person of the Year a couple years ago was "You" (Facebook, YouTube, etc.)A little guidance here. Exactly how to we enter this on our resumes?
So a bunch of y'all can say you were person of the year TWICE and now are on RS' Hot List!
Matt
"Give a good leader very little and he will succeed. Give a mediocrity a great deal and he will fail." - General George C. Marshall
Sorry D…
I just seem to have skill sets that are both irrelevant and irreverent…
"What is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women."
Ems vital skills,
I say...
Thank Ken!
but also Dave, you can never have too much Umar Al-Mokhtār!
"I put the "grrrr" in swinger, baby! Yeah!"
"What is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women."
A Poet's view of life applies to us, too.
The Scottish Poet Robert (Bobby) Burns said it in plain simple English: "It takes no brains, no genius to criticize."
"Pedants will be able to cite exceptions, and thus undermine useful (insightful) theory. Their depredations must be firmly resisted by one simple test: does the theory generally aid understanding of useful military problems? If so, then exceptions are permissible."
J.P. Storr “Human Aspects of Command”
OK. You have my attention. What are you trying to say?
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
Should've banned amateurs when you had a chance. Now you're going to be owerrun with riff raff.
On a serious note, the most intelligent conversation on the net happens here.
"Post modern COIN avant-garde"
Wilf that's even better than "pop-centric COIN"! I can even picture a few of them sitting at a cafe wearing jaunty berets, sipping Absinthe and Pernod, and drawing on their delicately held Gauloises.
Where did they go? Well, having stepped off into the limelight to now revel in their new pop stardome they seem to have left we of the pragmatic and weathered hoi-polloi to continue to march on.
"What is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women."
Don't forget the safety belts, gotta have the safety beltsWilf that's even better than "pop-centric COIN"! I can even picture a few of them sitting at a cafe wearing jaunty berets, sipping Absinthe and Pernod, and drawing on their delicately held Gauloises.
Safety Belts!
I love it!
"What is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women."
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