the troops need silly string!!!
 

http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_334011318.html

its fun.... and good for you!

that was funny as hell

rock on

This is going on a tangent, but you know one of my pet peeves? How the media changes words.

Troop is supposed to mean a group of soldiers.

For the longest time, when newscasters and even news magazines and such would use the word troops, I'd be confused. "3,000 troops." Wow, I'd think that's a lot of soldiers--3,000 groups of what, 50, 100, or more soldiers? Then I realized they meant 3,000 soldiers.

Troop is a collective noun. It means a group of soldiers. You have a troop of soldiers, or troops of soldiers, but it's technically wrong to call soldiers troops.

Please help me correct this irriitating mistake by using soldier when you mean one soldier, and troop when you mean a group of them. I'd really appreciate it.

ha ha, you are right. they are probably playing into the hands of this bullshit:



see??? each fool is "an army", hence, ha ha, a troop

Yeah, I mean no disrespect to any of you in uniform out there, but the people who are your bosses are a bunch of dumb fucks, basically.

hey hey!
watch it, mister!

Truth hurts.

..... i will not have this!

Oh, are you a general or something, crypto? Sorry, man. You're okay. It's the rest of you...

he's joking. but given the history of some people on this board (the old board anyway), it was difficult to tell at first.

Sorry, I just didn't get why crypto was taken aback by my attack on army bosses (generals et al). Or do you mean he was joking? Then later I got to thinking maybe crypto's the son of an army general. In any regard, the use of troop that is still in vogue and the "army of one" branding slogan remain idiotic corruptions of English.

anyone stupid enough to want to join the army should be let in. arnt they all just hired killers anyway?

want to be ignore buddies?
you dont read what i say, i dont read what you have to say

Oswald, for instance. Tough I think he was a marine. Earned expert marksman when he served, I think.

who said that?

Crypto, I love you. I'm just not understanding your connection to all this. Are an Army kid? In the Army? (If so, I think your haircut is out of regs, son!)

no, but i respect the people who join the military.

and this "jon boy" guy has been on my case the past couple of days, im kind of sick of it.

:rolleyes:

Crypto, why have you not joined the military if you support it so very much?
You are the right age, nothing holding you back....