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Posted by tu3031 2003-04-02 07:31 am|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.

Main Entry: funk
Pronunciation: 'f&[ng]k
Date: circa 1739
intransitive senses : to become frightened and shrink back
transitive senses
1 : to be afraid of : DREAD
2 : to shrink from undertaking or facing

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-04-02 07:52:27|| 2003-04-02 07:52:27|| Front Page Top

#2 What did he think the word "Armed" stood for in the Armed Forces of the US. What did he think US Marine stood for? This is just a clueless dork.

Posted by Jim 2003-04-02 08:08:29|| 2003-04-02 08:08:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Probably another "victim" of the anti-gun, keep-no-score, mushy-headed public education system. Even the most obtuse has a clue about what the Marines do in war time after going through basic.

Posted by Doug De Bono 2003-04-02 08:32:30|| [www.douglasdebono.com] 2003-04-02 08:32:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Poor misguided young man (wiping away tears)

What? Air? Nobody told me I have to breathe!

Posted by john 2003-04-02 09:00:57|| 2003-04-02 09:00:57|| Front Page Top

#5 What a wet end this punk is, he will probably make a great college professor, or democratic candidate for president...

Posted by Wills 2003-04-02 09:30:50|| 2003-04-02 09:30:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Hopefully a new definition, as a verb: Funked (v) - to be imprisoned, fined and dishonorably discharged for being a stupid pussy

Posted by Frank G 2003-04-02 09:44:44|| 2003-04-02 09:44:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Step right up, son. We got a SPECIAL prize for you...

Posted by mojo 2003-04-02 09:59:20|| 2003-04-02 09:59:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Funk said he's attended every major San Francisco Bay area anti-war rally since finishing his military training last fall. He insisted his decision had nothing to do with the war in Iraq.

As the old saying goes, "Monkey see, monkey do."

"They don't really advertise that they kill people," Funk said. "I didn't really realize the full implications of what I was doing and what it really meant to be in the service as a reservist."

Translation: Duuuuhhhhhh.....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-02 10:22:19|| 2003-04-02 10:22:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Does "johnny dumbass" realize that being a CO doesnt relieve him of his duties, just reclassifies him into non combatant roles, such as medical corpsman. So instead of shooting people in a combat zone, he gets to help put them back together. I loved his statement " The marines to advertise that they actually expect you to kill people". He makes it sound like he meant to go into the carnival cruise lines office and walked into the marine recruiting office instead.

Posted by Frank Martin 2003-04-02 10:41:44|| [varifrank.blogspot.com] 2003-04-02 10:41:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Teresa Panepinto of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors in Oakland, which runs the hot line, says in today's mostly volunteer military there is "economic conscription" as young people join the forces for job skills or tuition -- not to fight wars.
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors in Oakland
Central Committee and Oakland, you just can't make this stuff up.

Posted by Steve 2003-04-02 10:42:24|| 2003-04-02 10:42:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Economic conscription?

I fail to see how a lack of money forces someone to sign up for military service. Hell, if some bum wants a damn handout, why not go to San Francisco and panhandle like all the rest of them?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-02 11:40:05|| 2003-04-02 11:40:05|| Front Page Top

#12 "This is my rifle,
This is my gun.
This one's for WHAT??? Crap, I signed up for the *fun*!!"

Posted by Samma-lamma 2003-04-02 11:48:00|| 2003-04-02 11:48:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Funk's ~~argument~~ attitude would almost make sense if he were in the Coast Guard. I can see a naive teenager thinking that he was going to spend his days pulling shipwrecked boaters out of the water and then being surprised when his cutter was shipped off to the Persian Gulf and he was handed a gun and told to keep an eye out for minelayers and suicide-bomb speedboats. But a Marine? Don't recruits have to pass a basic intelligence test to join all the services?

Posted by Dr. Weevil 2003-04-02 16:54:45|| [www.doctorweevil.org] 2003-04-02 16:54:45|| Front Page Top

#14 Dr Weevil-- Maybe his mommy or sister took the test for him, too.

Posted by Former Russian Major 2003-04-02 20:11:28|| 2003-04-02 20:11:28|| Front Page Top

#15 the latest? on NPR just a half hour ago they said he was claiming to be gay

Posted by Frank G 2003-04-02 20:22:09|| 2003-04-02 20:22:09|| Front Page Top

#16 Mom must be really proud to have a son who's not as much of a man as someone named Jessica.

Posted by Fred 2003-04-02 20:57:54|| 2003-04-02 20:57:54|| Front Page Top

#17 FrankG. HAHAHA! Man, he's got all his bases covered, huh? No Iraqi ever called me honky.

Posted by tu3031 2003-04-02 21:38:23|| 2003-04-02 21:38:23|| Front Page Top

#18 Anyone remember the DD Form 214 spin number for coward?

Posted by Don 2003-04-02 21:56:14|| 2003-04-02 21:56:14|| Front Page Top

#19 Gay? Robert Schimmel had a great line about that. "I told the sergeant at the induction center I was Gay. He said "Oh yea? Give me a blow job and I'll give you a deferment". He lied.

Posted by Thane of Cawdor 2003-04-02 22:17:32|| 2003-04-02 22:17:32|| Front Page Top

#20 Maybe hes transfering to the French foreign legion.

Posted by Brew 2003-04-02 23:11:34|| 2003-04-02 23:11:34|| Front Page Top

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