I'm sure many readers (particularly military veterans) are familiar with Skippy's List, better known as "The 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the U.S. Army". Examples include:
7. Not allowed to add “In accordance with the prophesy” to the end of answers I give to a question an officer asks me.
18. May no longer perform my now (in)famous “Barbie Girl Dance” while on duty.
33. Not allowed to chew gum at formation, unless I brought enough for everybody.
34. (Next day) Not allowed to chew gum at formation even if I *did* bring enough for everybody.
57. The proper response to a lawful order is not “Why?”
Those pearls of wisdom (?) have delighted generations of service personnel.
Now, courtesy of Marc A. on MeWe, we learn that there are similar rules for budding archaeologists on a dig. Click the image for a larger view.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall on that dig, just to see what he tries next!
Peter
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LOL. I've been reading Ringo's Black Tide Rising series and now I know why one of the Army enlisted (River of Night Book #6) has a notebook in which she writes her Do's and Don'ts, very similar to Skippy's List stuff. Quite funny and I didn't know that it came from something older. The one that stood out to me (as a former JO) was #15 "Telling a Second Lieutenant "Sir, hush, the adults are talking" while within the hearing of the First Sergeant is not recommended" and #54 "Even if she's a huge Warren Zevon fan, the Specialist will not refer to any junior officer as "an excitable boy". 😁
Nice - but have you seen this?
https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/joke/disclaim.htm
Then there was the tee shirt I had that had the unit logo on the front and on the back was a huge bald eagle head and the words "go to strange and unusual places and meet strange and unusual people and kill them, but only on weekends and 2 weeks out of the year, Go Air Guard".
One wonders if these are actual 'rules' or "rules" which people thought of at 2 a.m. (No fishing in the goldfish bowl.)
Wife is a Preschool teacher. New job, new list of rules. Some of them obviously have a A Story behind them. "Bobby" got a "great (bad) idea" and did it "because it wasn't against the rules!". So now there is a rule against said "Great Idea".
Skippy's was the original, and shall never be equalled.
It's pretty much exactly where "Gibbs' Rules" came from on NCIS.
The Dig List would make a pretty good concept for a TV show too. Ryan Stiles stars as Oklahoma Bones, an archaeologist who's a little off-center. See what rules he breaks each week as he travels the world violating human history.
ABC, send the royalty check care of my blog.
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