Reporters saying "TARMAC" how stupid!!

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:41:12 -0500, vincent p. norris
wrote:

"telly"

Telly is a good word; I'm surprised it hasn't replaced the rather
awful "TV".

Have you noticed you aren't supposed to use the "the" with it, at
least not if you are belly-scratching lower class?

"Saw it on telly, Mum."



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My favorite is in Michael Herr's "Dispatches", where he speaks of the
helicopters picking up the "tarmac" when the Marines pulled out of Khe
Sahn (however spelled).

At first I had an image of the choppers with bags of broken-up
asphalt, but eventually I realized he was talking about the
pierced-steel planking.

Evidently tarmac has become shorthand for "runways and stuff". I look
forward to the day when we read that a certain airport has a grass
tarmac.

"Cub Driver" wrote in message

My favorite is in Michael Herr's "Dispatches", where he speaks of the
helicopters picking up the "tarmac" when the Marines pulled out of Khe
Sahn (however spelled).

daaaaaang. Somebody ELSE who's read that book, from which so much of Full
Metal Jacket was drawn. (Did you catch the part about the crazy Marine
named Dale Dye? Do a netsearch on him. He's a Hollywood standard now.)

....well...that went completely off the topic.

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:16:11 -0800, "gatt"
wrote:

(Did you catch the part about the crazy Marine
named Dale Dye?

No, I didn't. Likely I read the book after I saw the movie. I really
liked Full Metal Jacket, though cineophiles generally hold their noses
at mention of it.

"Cub Driver" wrote in message

(Did you catch the part about the crazy Marine
named Dale Dye?

No, I didn't. Likely I read the book after I saw the movie. I really
liked Full Metal Jacket, though cineophiles generally hold their noses
at mention of it.

Dye is the guy that runs the Hollywood boot camp. Was the captain in
Platoon ("Lovely ----ing war"), was in Saving Private Ryan on the
President's staff and appears in just about every American war movie made
since the '80s. If it's the same guy, Herr describes the guy as a nutjob
who painted a flower-shaped target on the front of his helmet.

The other classic example borrowed by FMJ from Dispatches is the helicopter
doorgunner screaming "Git some!" and answering questions about shooting
civilians from the helicopter.

-c