I've been reading a lot of different material lately, including religious, philosophical, and military blogs and websites. It was on the later that I spotted a phrase that I had heard before, but never catalog and categorized. When I came across it today, I started laughing, recognizing something I had heard before, knew, and now had a reason to remember. Yeah, the weirdest things will make me laugh. When you decide to write, you start doing such things, watching how people speak, their specific words and how they put them together. The tempo and magic phrasing, the missed jokes, the banalities, all of it. Good dialog is a joy to hear and read. So here it is, a phrase that could immediately categorize the character, Semper Gumby, always felixible/bendy. Category: Marine jargon/speach, someone with a sense of humor, definately used within the community and not outside.
"Semper Gumby?" my commander queried.
"Yes, sir. It beats being Pokey," I said.
"You bet you ass."
"I was hoping my ass didn't figure into this, sir."
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