That's my Grandma !!

[iDuckman]

The egg was my Dad! 

 

[Snargfargle]

Speaking of mascots, I used to walk by this horse quite often on my way to class. Supposedly he had a fondness for beer too.

Delete Me might be worth looking into. When I was doing my taxes this year I didn't want to bother turning off telemarketer blocking on my phone so I just had the tax software ask me some questions. That was a mistake as I didn't realize just how many questions it would ask. From just my email address, it was asking me questions that even I had to think about, like which car have you been associated with (list included one of my Dad's old pickups), which address you have been associated with (list included one of my old girlfriends' addresses), and what college have you been associated with (list included a college I didn't even remember I'd attended because it was an extension course I took at an Army base). The "internet" pretty much knows everything about you if someone knows where to look.

Edited March 1 by Snargfargle

[Snargfargle]

@iDuckman's great uncle served in the Army Air Corps with the Flying Tigers in WWII.

After the war, he went to college on the GI Bill.

He then teamed up with a Chinese pilot he had flown with and started a restaurant chain.

They made enormous profits because he got the food at a "family discount."

He became the richest duck in the world.

Edited March 1 by Snargfargle

[Wolfswetpaws]

2 hours ago, iDuckman said:

The egg was my Dad! 

 

Transcript.
 

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this is probably the most Marine Corps

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story I've ever heard in my entire life

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and there's absolutely no way that it's

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been embellished like a

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lot ladies and gentlemen we've already

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talked about the Marine corps's most

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famous animal hero Sergeant Reckless the

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horse that was adopted by the Marines

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during the Korean war that would go on

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to become the hero of outpost Vegas and

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the first horse to ever partake in a

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Marine Corp amphibious Landing but

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before Sergeant Reckless the Marine

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Corps had another hero from the Animal

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Kingdom that partook in multiple

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amphibious Landings in the Pacific

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Theater of World War II today we're

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talking about sergeant seawash

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aka the devil duck but first a word from

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to the video Our Story begins in 1942 as

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the second Marine division is currently

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in New Zealand gearing up to go into

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combat against the Japanese in World War

2:24

II and like all great military stories

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it totally happened it begins in a bar

2:28

with a bunch of Marines drinking and as

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is tradition with the military drinking

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at a bar there are conflicting reports

2:33

as to what actually happened according

2:34

to the Marine Corps the Marines went out

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to a local bar in New Zealand they then

2:39

started drinking with the locals and

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they all had a great very professional

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cordial time where they all drank a very

2:45

appropriate amount of alcohol

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potentially even a Surgeon General

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recommended

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amount and then none of the Marines went

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out and hooked up with any of the local

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women and if they did hypothetically

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which they didn't but if they did it

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would have been strictly in the

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missionary position and the Marines

3:00

would have used protection now while

3:01

they were at the bar there was also a

3:03

raffle and apparently a bunch of the

3:05

Marines bought these tickets for this

3:06

raffle and one of the Marines by the

3:08

name of Sergeant Francis Fagan ended up

3:10

winning the raffle now the grand prize

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for this raffle at a bar in New Zealand

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was apparently a duck and that's what

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the Marine Corp has happened now

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according to the other sources mostly

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the personal accounts of the Marines

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that were actually there and quite

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frankly common sense says that the

3:25

Marines were at this local bar partying

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their faces off like they were about to

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go into the biggest armed conflict the

3:29

world has ever seen and while they were

3:31

there some of the Marines were playing

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poker with the locals and the Marines

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apparently took all of their money and

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they came back to the table and they're

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like all right well here's my prize duck

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I'm going to put that up as a wager and

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the Marine Corps ended up winning that

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too and that again was Sergeant Francis

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Fagan AKA papy now personally I'm going

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to go ahead and air on the side of the

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Marines got hammered at a bar and wanton

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a duck in a poker game and the chain of

3:52

command didn't want to get in trouble

3:53

for associating the Marine Corps with

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gambling so they just made up some weird

3:57

like apparently bars in New Zealand

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raffle off ducks but you can go ahead

4:00

and decide to believe whatever you want

4:02

regardless either way Francis Fagan and

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by extension the Marine Corps now has a

4:05

duck so what are the Marines going to do

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with a duck obviously they take it under

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their

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wing I'd like to apologize to the

4:13

internet for making you a

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dad I mean to be fair that is true I

4:18

kind of turned her into a bodybuilder

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for like 18 months between the two

4:22

kids wow H interrupting my history time

4:26

sorry about that anyways the Marines

4:28

pretty much immediately teach this do

4:29

had to drink beer which I know what

4:30

you're thinking that's probably not very

4:32

healthy for the duck but to be fair

4:33

there are worse vices to have I mean he

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could get addicted to

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quack I'm I'm sorry I'm done okay I'm

4:39

done with the dad jokes that joke was

4:41

foul anyways they become Drinking

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Buddies with his duck he becomes one of

4:44

the Marines and then time comes for them

4:46

to all go off to war and actually engage

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with the Japanese sure enough they take

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the duck with them fast forward November

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1943 the Battle of tarua it's one of the

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bloodiest battles in Marine Corps

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history essentially the Japanese have

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4,000 soldiers dug in and heavily

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fortified on the Tara at tol and the

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Marines have to go in there and take him

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out now what's unique about Tara is it

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is surrounded by coral reefs and what

5:06

that means is any traditional landing

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craft that America could use like a

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Higgins boat similar to what we used

5:11

over in the European theater would get

5:12

hung up on these coral reefs and

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Japanese would be able to spray it with

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machine gun fire and artillery and

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mortars and kill absolutely everybody

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the Japanese were so confident in these

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coral reefs and their fortified defenses

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that Admiral shimasaki said that it

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would take a million men 100 years to

5:28

take Tara but he didn't know that the

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Marine Corps had the lvt The Landing

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vehicle tracked aka the amphibious

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tractor similar to a Higgins boat except

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it had tracks on it and then when it hit

5:38

the coral reefs it would simply drive

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right over the top of them so November

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20th 1943 at 3:00 a.m. under the cover

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of Darkness 18,000 Marines and one duck

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would load into their salamander

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tractors as they prepared to launch

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their amphibious landing at the quack of

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dawn as Dawn broke the Japanese soldiers

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watched in Horrors the American landing

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craft did not get hung up on the wreef

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but simply drove right over the top of

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them the only surviv in Japanese officer

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from this battle Koshi OT would later go

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on to right we could see the American

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landing craft coming towards us like

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dozens of spiders over the surface of

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the water as one of my men exclaimed the

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gods of death have come as the Marines

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reached the beach they would become

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pinned down from heavy machine gun

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artillery and mortar fire they were only

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able to secure the first 70 yards of the

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beach after hours of combat it is at

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this point that the Marines front line

6:23

was charged by an enemy rooster and

6:26

Sergeant seawash charged past the Marine

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line to meet the in winged combat in the

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middle of the battlefield after

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sustaining several pecs to the head

6:34

seawash was able to repel the enemy

6:36

Ambush and save his fellow Marines the

6:38

Marines would then go on in the

6:39

following days to completely take over

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the island the Japanese believed that it

6:42

would take a million men 100 years in

6:45

reality it took 18,000 Marines and one

6:48

devil duck 72 hours for sustaining

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multiple PEC wounds on the battlefield

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the Marines tried to get seawash the

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Purple Heart unfortunately that wasn't

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going to work out but the chain of

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command still cited seawash for bravery

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on on the battlefield that citation

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written by Lieutenant Colonel Presley m

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brexley is as follows for courageous

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action and wounds received on Tara in

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the Gilbert Islands November 1943 with

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utter disregard for his own personal

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safety seawash upon reaching the beach

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without hesitation engaged the enemy in

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Fierce combat namely one rooster of

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Japanese ancestry and though wounded on

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the head by repeated pecs he soon routed

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his opposition he then refused Medical

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Aid until all wounded members of his

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section had been taken care of first SE

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his fellow Marines would then see battle

7:30

again at the Battle of Sian also known

7:32

as the D-Day of the Pacific however

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allegedly due to some Intel there would

7:36

be no enemy poultry on the beach so

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seawash his Services were no longer

7:40

needed and he would remain on the boat

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for the initial 3 days of the battle

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after that he would go ashore and

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support his fellow Marines at the

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conclusion of the battle of sapan the

7:48

Marines had gained valuable Intel

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regarding the neighboring island of

7:52

tenian and they would immediately launch

7:53

another attack to gain that Island as

7:55

well and this time the devil duck would

7:57

partake in the amphibious Landing from

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there he would identify an enemy duck

8:01

that he would engage in build combat

8:02

until forcing it to finally Retreat a

8:04

couple of days after that the Marines

8:05

would take the island entirely and

8:07

shortly after that Sergeant seawash

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would lay an egg apparently seawash and

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the other duck I mentioned a minute ago

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were doing a little bit more than just

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fighting either way at this point the

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Marines now realize that Sergeant

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seawash is in fact a girl to which

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they're like a

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woman treacherous snake just kidding

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they didn't actually care in reality

8:25

they were probably giving each other a

8:26

hard time like all right who did it

8:28

passess up to would be the last time

8:30

that Sergeant seawash ever saw combat

8:32

after World War II she would end up

8:33

getting sent back home to America with

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her fellow Marines and her primary

8:37

caretaker Francis Fagan from there the

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story of Sergeant seawash picked up

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traction being in Time Magazine having

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multiple radio appearances being in a

8:44

bunch of different newspapers telling

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the harrowing story of America's one and

8:48

only devil duck and while that's going

8:50

on she is partying her bill off with her

8:52

Marines drinking beer after beer while

8:54

also helping the Marines hit on young

8:56

women and I actually believe this to be

8:57

the first historical appearance of the

8:59

term wingman being used in relation to

9:01

picking up women okay I mean look at

9:03

this Fagan and seawash have more game

9:04

than an Xbox that man's about to get

9:06

more than an animal shelter over the

9:08

next couple months the publicity would

9:09

die down and Francis Fagan would go on

9:11

to become an electrician and his

9:13

great-grandson would also go on to

9:15

become an electrician that had a pretty

9:17

decent sized YouTube channel no I'm just

9:18

kidding I'm not related to this guy

9:20

anyways uh Sergeant seawash would also

9:22

then go to live on a farm for an

9:24

extended period of time until being

9:25

called back into duty during the Korean

9:27

War where she helped with recru efforts

9:29

after that she would finally retire to

9:31

live out the rest of her days in the

9:32

Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago before

9:34

passing away in 1953 due to liver

9:37

complications which prompted the Marines

9:39

to release a statement saying that there

9:40

is no reason to believe that her liver

9:42

complications were due to her excessive

9:44

amount of drinking during her time and

9:45

service according to multiple newspapers

9:47

her funeral service was then held in a

9:49

taxidermy shop where she was then

9:51

stuffed and currently resides in the

9:52

national museum of the Marine Corps in

9:54

Triangle Virginia so in conclusion this

9:56

has been the totally real 100% not

9:58

embellished whatsoever story of Sergeant

10:00

C wash AKA America's devil duck that

10:03

time the Marine Corps won a duck in a

10:05

poker game taught it how to drink beer

10:07

then took it to multiple amphibious

10:08

Landings in the deadliest battles of

10:10

World War II kept it alive the entire

10:12

time to bring it back home so they could

10:14

use it to hit on women and I think it is

10:16

the most Marine Core thing that has ever

10:17

happened and if I'm wrong you can tell

10:19

me down below and if your story is

10:21

better I'll do a video on that too thank

10:23

you for watching best way to support the

10:24

channel is go by some merch over the fat

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electrician. comom quack bang out

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[Music]

 

[iDuckman]

4 hours ago, Wolfswetpaws said:

Transcript.
 

 

Does this forum have enough storage space for one of his transcripts.  Hell, you even got the ad. 

The moments when his wife pops in and cuts him dead are even funnier than he is.

 

[iDuckman]

6 hours ago, Snargfargle said:

Delete Me might be worth looking into. When I was doing my taxes this year I didn't want to bother turning off telemarketer blocking on my phone so I just had the tax software ask me some questions. That was a mistake as I didn't realize just how many questions it would ask. From just my email address, it was asking me questions that even I had to think about, like which car have you been associated with (list included one of my Dad's old pickups), which address you have been associated with (list included one of my old girlfriends' addresses), and what college have you been associated with (list included a college I didn't even remember I'd attended because it was an extension course I took at an Army base). The "internet" pretty much knows everything about you if someone knows where to look.

It's the IRS.  They know what color of underwear you were thinking about putting on today, but never did.

Yeah, I bounced off that identity thing several years ago.  Some, like my exact address 20 years ago, I couldn't answer because the options were so similar.  But I guess they didn't require 100% on those.  The killer was something like, "Where did we send your last tax return packet to?"  I know where the one I got went to, but it's not what they have down.  I tried a couple of recents and then gave up.

Delete Me does sound like a fair deal, as far as it would go.  Now if it worked on the IRS...

 

[Snargfargle]

13 minutes ago, iDuckman said:

The moments when his wife pops in and cuts him dead are even funnier than he is.

"I kind of turned her into a bodybuilder for like 18 months between the two kids" is a classic dad joke.

[Admiral_Karasu]

9 hours ago, Snargfargle said:

Speaking of mascots, I used to walk by this horse quite often on my way to class. Supposedly he had a fondness for beer too.

Delete Me might be worth looking into. When I was doing my taxes this year I didn't want to bother turning off telemarketer blocking on my phone so I just had the tax software ask me some questions. That was a mistake as I didn't realize just how many questions it would ask. From just my email address, it was asking me questions that even I had to think about, like which car have you been associated with (list included one of my Dad's old pickups), which address you have been associated with (list included one of my old girlfriends' addresses), and what college have you been associated with (list included a college I didn't even remember I'd attended because it was an extension course I took at an Army base). The "internet" pretty much knows everything about you if someone knows where to look.

You are older than I had realized....

True, BTW, the Internet never forgets...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-4p4WwoZss

[Wolfswetpaws]

7 hours ago, iDuckman said:

Does this forum have enough storage space for one of his transcripts.  Hell, you even got the ad. 

The moments when his wife pops in and cuts him dead are even funnier than he is.

 

Some people can read faster than he can video.  🙂 
Wading through the fluff is a welcome option for people who would rather get the gist of it and move on to other uses of their time.  Simple as that.

[Snargfargle]

46 minutes ago, Wolfswetpaws said:

Some people can read faster than he can video.  🙂 
Wading through the fluff is a welcome option for people who would rather get the gist of it and move on to other uses of their time.  Simple as that.

Unformatted text takes up little space due to compression algorithms. When I wrote my first database application, I exported a hundred-thousand-record database to comma-deliminated ASCII text, and used a rudimentary compression algorithm to back it up on only three, 360 K floppy disks.

When I'm watching videos simply for information I put them on 2x speed.

 

Edited March 1 by Snargfargle