I have been tied up with work stuff, so haven't been able to listen with any amount of concentration at work, tonight I plan on sitting down and giving my batch a good listening to.

Lelied came over, and Cinebo lives here, and we just powered through another massive chunk of what all is involved in the updated database for the new site: sorting by movie release date!

Cahuenga Labs is kind of like the Marines; Once a Cahuenga Labs tenant, always a Cahuenga Labs tenant.

I really hope some of Trey's anti-moon hoaxers rant from Apollo 13 gets in there.

@Faldor Thanks!

@Matt Cheers! (This is our hu-ah, I guess. We need a better hu-ah. The army and Al Pacino kind of own hu-ah.)

I may have bitten off too much. I'll definietly get T2 finished up today, but the responsible thing is for me to give up my last two...I'll still try, but my free time now through Monday is scarce.  Got Dark City written out, can type it up later.

That leaves FMJ and Alien free for the taking.

Last edited by drewjmore (2011-08-27 17:52:16)

Ahem, just so Matt or Eddie doesn't have to do this again.

Army is hooah.  A clever backronym for it is H.U.A- Heard, Understood, Acknowledged.  It basically means anything and everything except for "no."   As I understand it nobody can figure out precisely where the hell this utterance originated or why, but there's some colorful speculative stories.  Not unlike the "Hoosier" thing in my home state in that respect.

Navy, if I remember correctly originating among the SEALS, is hooyah.  I have heard some AF units use this as well but that's lamesauce. 

Marines is Oorah, it's a more barky thing.  This is similar in use to the other two, but I usually hear Marines say this when something is shot, something is blown up, or they are particularly excited about the potential for either of these things to occur.  This is perhaps because Marines can and do often end sentences and respond to any kind of statement or question with phrases like "Semper Fi" or "cleared hot" or "kill, kill."  Yes, that last one is real.  Marines are also prone to occasionally just... barking.  Devil dogs and all that.  I love Marine jargon, it's not necessarily more plentiful than army speak or navy speak, but it's generally way more colorful.  Oorah also has slightly fuzzy origins, but the story I usually hear is that it evolved from an imitation of a submarine klaxon- AHUGA.  I'm going to stop talking about it now because I could do this all day.

Al Pacino seems to be more of an ooAH.  But that's more of a Ralph Garman thing than a Pacino thing at this point anyway.

I humbly suggest DIF take "Dooyah."

I miss that show too. Their third season is now in comic book form, but it's just not the same.

Your spelling.  Also, the beginning of the last commentary was you looking at Eddie, freezing while trying to get the right utterance, and saying "Uagh!"

Mostly though I wanted to show off how much usmilitary.about.com I've been reading.

[obligatory Nedry quote]

[obligatory Nedry squeal]

No, that's fine. Any time tomorrow.

Eaahaah, I am so far behind, looks like a long night for me tonight