A man gets drafted into the Army.
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A man is drafted by the Army. He arrives late and is last in line to get a gun. When he gets to the Ordnance officer there are no more guns. "Don't worry" says the officer "Take this stick and point it at the enemy and say 'Bangity, bang, bang, bang!' Perplexed, and quite apprehensive, he takes the stick and gets in line for a knife. Last in line again, when he gets to the front there are no more knives. "Don't worry" says the officer "Take this rag and use it to attack the enemy while yelling 'Stabity, stab, stab, stab!' Now, incredibly nervous, he is sent to the front lines. As soon as he jumps out of the transport truck he is in the middle of a huge battle. Not wanting to die without at least trying to fight the enemy, he raises the stick and starts screaming "Bangity, bang, bang, bang!" over and over again. To his surprise, enemy soldiers start dropping dead of apparent gun shot wounds! Suddenly, an enemy soldier surprises him with a hard tackle, and his stick is sent flying. Grabbing his rag, he begins to make stabbing motions with it while yelling "Stabity, stab, stab, stab!" The enemy soldiers eyes roll back in his head as he dies of apparent knife wounds! Retrieving his stick he sets out into the fray killing scores of enemy soldiers. Hours later, as exhaustion settles in, he comes upon a massive enemy soldier with his back turned away from him. He raises his stick and screams "Bangity, bang, bang, bang!", but nothing happens! He screams it again and again, but still nothing happens. The enemy soldier must have heard him, but remains with his back turned.Finally, thinking maybe the stick has run out of ammo, he grabs the rag and charges the enemy. But, just as he reaches him, the enemy soldier turns around, raises a leg and brings it down in a violent stomping move. The last thing he hears before becoming a pile of pulped human remains is the enemy soldier yelling "Tankity, tank, tank, tank!"
145Sunny@reddit
I was in the Infantry in the early 1960's. Korea was long over and Vietnam hadn't really started yet and Army resources were super constrained. Armor wouldn't participate in our small unit (platoon) training, so they actually had soldiers carrying signs with a big T on them walking up the hill with the aggressor force. The aggressors with rifles shot blanks, and the soldiers with the T signs called out "Rumble, rumble, I'm a tank." Honest.
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TheeAincientMariener@reddit
This is not how we did it in the 80's, or neither on the 1990's.
HopefulPlantain5475@reddit
It probably wasn't how you did it, but people did it wrong back then too.
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Abbreviated date-ranges like "’90s" are contractions, so the apostrophe goes before the numbers.
You can also completely omit the apostrophe if you want: "The 90s were a bit weird."
Numeric date-ranges like 1890s are treated like standard nouns, so they shouldn't include apostrophes.
To show possession, the apostrophe should go after the S: "That was the ’90s’ best invention."
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dave200204@reddit
Is the auto moderator bot German? I say this because it sounds like a grammar Nazi.
OldBob10@reddit
Be silent und use your apostrophes properly - or HEADS VILL ROLL!!!
Squankyou@reddit (OP)
Awesome!!!
KagatoAC@reddit
Probably where that joke came from, as I first heard it back in the late ‘80s. 😜
Single-Indication506@reddit
paragraphs
Single-Indication506@reddit
It seems to be have been fixed now. Easier to read. Thank you.
Squankyou@reddit (OP)
No
BKehew@reddit
WW1 version: Dysenterity, Dys, Dys, Dys!
The-thingmaker2001@reddit
Only a bit modified from the version I heard on the schoolyard in, probably, 5th grade back in 1968...
Squankyou@reddit (OP)
I was thinking of changing it to a sci-fi setting. He gets a flashlight instead of a laser gun and is told to point it at the enemy and yell "Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate"
Xylene_442@reddit
just wait until they hear nukity, nuke, nuke, nuke.
Squankyou@reddit (OP)
That guy has to be dropped out of an airplane . . .
Citizen44712A@reddit
Or paragraph, paragraph, paragraph.
upachimneydown@reddit
Uh, ...paragraphity, paragraph, paragraph?
Zorothegallade@reddit
Breaky breaky line breaky
strike-eagle-iii@reddit
Or Brrrrrttt
Halouva@reddit
I would read if it wasn't a block of text. Add some line spaces!
Squankyou@reddit (OP)
No
Seven-D-Seven@reddit
Every real soldier knows the word used instead of gun is weapon. The old joke goes as he raises the rifle, he says “This is my weapon, (then, pointing to his crotch) this is my gun. ( Again raising his rifle) this is for fighting,and this is for fun.”
Any-Ordinary-5294@reddit
Artillery and armor are gun-based weapon systems...but you knew that as a real soldier.
Seven-D-Seven@reddit
And when was the last time you referred to an M-16 as a gun?
Squankyou@reddit (OP)
Yes, we all saw Full Metal Jacket
LetsTry2GetAlong@reddit
I like how he said every " REAL" soldier..
SensitivePineapple83@reddit
I wonder what they said in 4th Battalion training
PaperAccomplished739@reddit
A wizarding school runs out of real training equipment, so the instructor improvises.
To the first student he hands a wand-shaped stick and says:
“Just point it and shout Zapity zap zap! — trust me, it works.”
To the second student he hands a feather duster and says:
“Swing it and yell Swooshity swoosh swoosh! — absolutely devastating.”
To the third student he hands a rubber chicken and says:
“Wave this wildly and shout Cluckity cluck cluck! — it’s… surprisingly effective.”
The students are skeptical, but they head out into their magical combat exam.
Sure enough, the first student goes,
“Zapity zap zap!”
and targets explode with perfect accuracy.
The second student swings the feather duster:
“Swooshity swoosh swoosh!”
and enchanted dummies topple like dominoes.
The rubber-chicken student charges in screaming
“Cluckity cluck cluuuck!”
and even the instructors look impressed (and slightly concerned).
Suddenly, a giant ogre stomps into the arena.
The three students attack together:
Zapity zap zap!
Swooshity swoosh swoosh!
Cluckity cluck cluck!
Nothing happens.
The ogre sighs, cracks his knuckles, and says:
“Bonkity. Bonk. Bonk.”
And that was the end of the practical exam.
elciddog84@reddit
Was an Ordnance Officer (thank you for correct spelling). Mostly maintenance management, EOD, and R&D. I never issued a weapon to anyone. To draw a rifle, please go see the armory Sgt. Probably a SFC or MS.
demoguy0621@reddit
Paragraph bot, please fix this formatting.
EchidnaForward9968@reddit
Minity mine mine
machring@reddit
Not to be confused with " mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine" (seagull)
SensitivePineapple83@reddit
Daffy Duck as well... must be a bird thing
OpusCroakus1@reddit
God that was horrible. Damn you
Squankyou@reddit (OP)
The telling of this 'joke' should be as long as possible so that when finished the reader feels like they've been through an actual battle🤣
ApprehensiveYam9631@reddit
Yup, just like the “Purple Cowboy” joke.
TargetOfPerpetuity@reddit
My favorite of that genre is Norm's moth joke.
EmperorGeek@reddit
Good thing he wasn’t “Airborne”.
Parity chute chute chute!
Squankyou@reddit (OP)
I have another, equally long and annoying, joke about jumping out of ab airplane
Q-Vision@reddit
And suddenly then, a group of soldiers came running over the hill with their arms stretched wide yelling "Zoomity, Zoom, Zoom - thu, thu, thu, thu!".
Enemy soldiers: "Shit, it's their Air Force!"
Miki_Miura@reddit
Reminds me of how ork technology works in WH40K
IknowKarazy@reddit
imatank imatank imatank imatank
Gil-Gandel@reddit
Orks wouldn't be going "bangity-bang!" though, it would have to be "DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKA...."
Neva Enuff Dakka!
Abject-Friendship712@reddit
Hadity, ha ha ha!
BuckyBeaver69@reddit
Later the politician who saved all the money by not spending it on weapons goes to get a whore for the night. He arrives late and the whorehouse have no women available. "Don't worry" says the Madam "Take this lube and yell 'Fuckity, fuck, fuck, fuck!' while pleasuring yourself."
ungrateful_traveler@reddit
Enjoyed this one, thank you for sharing.
nerankori@reddit
A few steps later,the enemy soldier is flung several feet into the air,flipping over before crashing to the ground.
Nearby,an allied soldier sighs and gets up. "Anti-tankity-tank-tank minity-mine-mine."
OkHuckleberry4878@reddit
Maurie Fields was a good teller of this one
Healthy_Court9792@reddit
76
vonhoother@reddit
That joke is so dumb it gave me brain damage.😂
RyanofTinellb@reddit
Tanks for telling this joke.
Squankyou@reddit (OP)
My grandfather told me this joke about 40 years ago!
GrumpyOlBastard@reddit
Hey! It's the only true joke David Brenner ever wrote!
Squankyou@reddit (OP)
I found this, but no confirmation that he wrote or even performed it. "However, a similar joke, a common army-themed joke often shared in humor forums, involves a man in the army given a stick to point at the enemy and yell "Bangity, bang, bang, bang!" and a rag to make stabbing motions while yelling "Stabity, stab, stab, stab!". It is possible Brenner performed a variation of this routine."
mrcorde@reddit
Forgetety, forget, forget, forget
Squankyou@reddit (OP)
Never forget, never forgive.
cursedaardvark@reddit
Tittery, tit, tit, tit
The_BSharps@reddit
Bing-bong, bing-bong