My (sort of) existential crisis
Today someone I work with showed me a link saying, ed viagra “Some reserve PSYOP officer says that you made PSYOP look bad, allergist and that you are an urban myth.”
This was great news, as I had been wondering what I was going to write about for my weekly update. Perfect, I now have a target.
So I forwarded the link to my home account, and got all ready to mock him on the internet. I was gonna make up new unit heraldry for him. (The 11th Battalion Fightin’ Hillbillies, and I was even going to add the latin motto “Vos fuimus pulchellus oris, puer”.)
So I got all worked up and I get home and look at the site. It’s an explanation of how PSYOP works written by a man called PSYOP Cop, who’s had some experience doing it in Iraq. It’s a pretty decent one too. So if you’re curious about that sort of thing, look here. Actually the site it’s on, OPFOR is worth looking at if you are interested in military matters at all.
It turns out the negative parts were just in the comments section. One reader thought that I make PSYOP look bad. To him, I repeat the same thing I said to the last guy who accused me of that: the military jokes on my site do less to harm PSYOP’s reputation that the one’s who possess commissions. (But I’m doing it here because I’m too lazy to log in there to do it, and beside he wrote it around six months ago.)
Another poster responded to him think that I do not exist and that no one has ever met me. This was a huge shock to my friends, family, and co-workers, who now want to know who the hell they have been talking to for the past several years. I personally never claim someone doesn’t exist without doing a Google search on them, just in case, I dunno, they have a webpage or a blog or something.
So dammit, once again the world thwarts me in my quest to be a righteously indignant smart-ass.
Some people may point out that I still acted like one. To them I say shut-up, nobody likes a smart-ass. Except for when I do it.
I’m gonna sulk, and maybe be mean to some fan-fic writers.
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January 3rd, 2008 at 6:31 am
you’re not real?!? How dare you lie to me! I feel so betrayed!
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January 3rd, 2008 at 1:38 pm
People like you created PSYOP: the army of no “army”. God bless it.
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January 3rd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Skippy is really six small Afghan boys sharing a computer, what else could he be?
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January 3rd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Reality is all in the mind anyway :)
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January 3rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
So who created the list if you are not real then?
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January 3rd, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Skippy is real! Santa told me so
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January 3rd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
AH the world of PsyOps.
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January 4th, 2008 at 12:36 am
I think you might be my hero.
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January 4th, 2008 at 4:47 am
Just for clarification (not correction!) it is called PSYOP (note that there is no S at the end). For PSYOPPERS, when somebody places the S at the end (and it’s usually a leg) it is something akin to a chalkboard and nail raking.
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January 4th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Ok got it.
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January 4th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Ha! That’s funny. I ran into someone at CRC prior to deploying, we got to talking military humor and I mentioned your first name. He countered with Schwarz and it turned out you two knew each other in TX. Eric was his name. He had no idea this site existed. He said (if I remember correctly) he joined the Army (I figure in the late 90s) and I think he went into some flying classification. You’re one helluva good figment of people’s imaginations. If indeed, that conversation I had never took place.
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January 4th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Either that or he’s one hell of a bot somebody had write the list and make regular blog posts. Big time Turing pass. :P
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January 5th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I have never met you but you sound like someone I would want to meet. Just ignore those asshats and keep on doing whatcha do.
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January 7th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Oh… the motto translates from almost-Latin as “you were pretty eyes, boy.” Which fits, considering that it’s the Fighting Hillibillies.
‘Course, it’s entirely possible that YOU exist, and the world is an illusion, or maybe these people exist, and we’re all figments of thier diseased imaginations…
Great. Now I’ve got myself confused.
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January 8th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Go ahead and make the unit heraldry anyway. :)
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January 9th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
There is no Skippy….I mean there is no spoon
and ditto to DVD
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January 9th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
OMG – who was that guy at your wedding then?
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January 11th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Now I know I’ve gone nuts I’m reading a blog for a guy who doesn’t exsist, and I just found out about him and he already doesn’t exsist. Crap
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January 15th, 2008 at 3:09 am
I am shocked and offended that you are a figment of my imagination.
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January 24th, 2008 at 1:35 am
You can make fun of me all you want! I see your genious writing skills as a gift from another seemily ominous non-existant being!
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February 17th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
If you don’t exist, then who the hell am I writing to??
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February 21st, 2008 at 7:53 pm
What have you got against fan fic writers? Ok, there’s some pretty crappy stuff out there, but some of it’s pretty good. In fact it’s because of a Transformers fan fiction story that I even found out about this site and your list. You might even like it since each chapter has been set to one of your ‘rules’.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3866264/1/Breaking_the_Rules
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January 28th, 2011 at 12:58 am
Thank God no one here takes these allegations seriously.
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