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Edward Dolan
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Zippy the Pinhead <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> On 13 Feb 2004 15:19:17 -0800, [email protected] (Edward Dolan) wrote:
>
> >No skippy here - just me, Ed Dolan. You and I are on the same page.
>
> Well --- yeah...
>
> "Damn Skippy" is a bit of slanguage I picked up from Marines. (I too was a Corpsman but the Navy
> attached me to the Gyrenes).
>
> It means basically "damn right". Or as I suppose you say in Minnesota, "Yahh, shooor. You betcha".
Yeah, you bet or you betcha is about right. When I was at the Seattle VA recently being treated for
my prostate cancer I met another former Hospital Corpsman who was there being treated for lung
cancer. He also went with the Fleet Marine Force. I managed to avoid that particular catastrophe and
stayed in the Navy Hospitals all the time I was in the Navy (four extremely long years).
By the way, the movie "Fargo" really captures Minnesota very nicely as does the more recent movie
entitled "A Simple Plan". Both movies are Minnesota Gothic tales and you can clearly see why the
weather here drives us stark raving mad. I highly recommend both of these movies if anyone here is
ever the least bit interested in why I am as crazy as I am.
Ed Dolan - Minnesota
> On 13 Feb 2004 15:19:17 -0800, [email protected] (Edward Dolan) wrote:
>
> >No skippy here - just me, Ed Dolan. You and I are on the same page.
>
> Well --- yeah...
>
> "Damn Skippy" is a bit of slanguage I picked up from Marines. (I too was a Corpsman but the Navy
> attached me to the Gyrenes).
>
> It means basically "damn right". Or as I suppose you say in Minnesota, "Yahh, shooor. You betcha".
Yeah, you bet or you betcha is about right. When I was at the Seattle VA recently being treated for
my prostate cancer I met another former Hospital Corpsman who was there being treated for lung
cancer. He also went with the Fleet Marine Force. I managed to avoid that particular catastrophe and
stayed in the Navy Hospitals all the time I was in the Navy (four extremely long years).
By the way, the movie "Fargo" really captures Minnesota very nicely as does the more recent movie
entitled "A Simple Plan". Both movies are Minnesota Gothic tales and you can clearly see why the
weather here drives us stark raving mad. I highly recommend both of these movies if anyone here is
ever the least bit interested in why I am as crazy as I am.
Ed Dolan - Minnesota