Letter from a farm kid (now at San Diego, Marine Corps Recruit Training)
Dear Ma and Pa:
I am well. Hope you are too. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer that the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled.
I was restless at first because you have to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m., but I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay... practically nothing. Men got to shave but it's not so bad... there's warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie, and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food plus yours holds you 'til noon when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much.
We go on "route marches," which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A "route march" is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.
The country is nice but awful flat. The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don't bother you none.
This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes.
Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home. I'm about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over inSilver Lake. I only beat him once. He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only 5'6" and 130 pounds and he's 6'8" and near 300 pounds dry.
Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join up before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding on in.
Your loving daughter,
Alice
2006-12-26 15:27:48
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answered by sci fi fan 3
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Awesome
2016-05-23 09:34:31
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answered by Nicole 4
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its not a joke site but if you love Harry Potter you need to check out MuggleNet.com its kept me entertained for hours at a time, its the best unofficial HP site!
2006-12-27 03:30:28
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answered by Anonymous
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go to stupidness.com some pretty interesting things on their, and the crudeness can be a bit much but funny in someways.
2006-12-26 16:25:38
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answered by blueigurl34 3
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There is a site called www.funny.com with all kind of jokes you can pick from. Also some prank call site are www.prankcallsunlimited.com and www.ebaumsworld.com/morepranks.shtml . Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-12-26 16:04:24
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answered by ArribaMariposa 2
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go 2 www.bigducky.com and they have all kinds of prank calls even celebrity prank calls and also www.audiocomedy.net
2006-12-26 17:18:05
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answered by nintendo8888 5
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if you are really bored try youtube, http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=somebody777
or try this link, it should give you a list of sites dealing with pranks, http://us.ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?language=english&cat=web&query=title:%22funny+pranks%22
and there is also the Family Fun site, with all kinds of ideas of things to do
2006-12-26 15:33:24
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answered by Anonymous
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This website has all you need it's really funny...www.killsometime.com
2006-12-26 15:35:03
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answered by I'm Michael Jackson BAD!! 6
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youtube saturday night live or SNL. thats a garunteed laugh.
2006-12-26 15:38:42
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answered by Anonymous
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http://funnyjunk.com
2006-12-26 20:32:20
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answered by Sonu G 5
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