Semper Fi, and all that...

In honor of the Marine Corps' Birthday*, some Marine Humor.

One summer day a bunch of Congressmen were sitting around Carpenter' Hall in Philadelphia, flinging the shit around, like congressmen do. It being hot, they had their fans going full-blast. At one point John Livingston threw a handful of shit at John Adams and missed, hitting one of the fans square on the blades. The sound of the shit flying around the room made a strange reverberating sound, that was later described as "MA-reeeeeeeen!" (Imagine some "wah-wah" there.)

So, even since, whenever the shit hits the fan, Congress calls on the Marines.

Q: How are Marines like, and yet unlike, bananas?

A: While they both start off green, Marines never turn Yellow. They both do, however, die in bunches.

Now I won't be able to go out in public...

*BTW, the United States Marine Corps was not really formed in Tun Tavern on 10 November, 1775. That was the Continental Marines, the Naval Infantry of the Continental Navy. The United States Marines were formed in 1798 under John Adams, as part of the preparations for the Quasi-War with Revolutionary France. Nevertheless, possibly out of jealousy that the US Army was never completely disbanded, and has units that trace their lineage to the mid-17th Century, and possibly also because it is earlier than the US Navy's own foundation date, the US Marines claim the 1775 date as their birthday