ode to sincerity
'As everything in the world is but a sham,
Death is the only sincerity.'
- from Hagakure
posted by american short-timer at Saturday, September 17, 2005
17 September 2005
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- Name: american short-timer
- Location: whereabouts unknown
writing for those who can't
short - tim·er shôrt tī'mer noun
1. one nearing the end of a contractual term of service; a military enlistee at the end of a tour.
2. one arrested in service past a mutually agreed upon date after invocation of an executive order.
3. one at the proverbial end of his proverbial rope.
Inference: declining institutional loyalty proportionate to the nearing of one's Expiration Term of Service.
See also: Boobus Enlisticatus.
ALSO:
I am not in Iraq and I am not currently in the Army and I am not getting my ass shot at. This site is in compliance with MNC-I #9 as per FICI-CE-I, DoD Directive 5230.9 and AR 25-1, etcetera etcetera andsoforth.
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Charlie Yankee Alpha... out.
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- ...is all I ever do
- apply yourself young man
- to sleep is best of all
- a word from the short one
- who knows
- gamble and lie
- sometimes things don't go the way we like...
- fuck power
- the obit
- short
live each day as though it were to be your last, and one day you're sure to be right.
--Harry Harbord Morant
1 Comments:
WOW. Best I've read on BLogger.
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