Pretty Pretty Princess
One of the few things that was neat about the living in the barracks was the whole communal movie experience. Basically you had a bunch of poor young people cramped together, search and one of them rents a movie. Rather than pay to entertain themselves, impotent everyone just piles into the renters room and watches with them.
Well one evening my roommate came home with a copy of the animated Anastasia movie. And being responsible and mature young adults, symptoms | we proceeded to get drunk and watch cartoons.
One of the things that we noticed, is that when the Princess is leaving the orphanage, she is wearing a dark green trench coat, and what appears to be the hat from a set of dress blues.
As it happens, I owned a dark green trench coat, and was in possession of the hat from a set of dress blues.
My roommate points out to the people in the room, that I am in fact, in possession of a Princess Anastasia costume. The movie is paused, and I am made to go and put the outfit on.
I threw the clothes on, and weaved my way up to the television. For effect, I adopted the same pose that the cartoon princess was in.
Well right about then, my roommates supervisor barges in. Everybody freezes. And the NCO looks at me. Then he looks at the cartoon. Then he looks at me.
“I’m Princess Anastasia?” I suggested helpfully.
“Right. Does anyone else have an explanation for this?”
“He’s the lost heir to the Russian throne…and he’s got a talking bat but we haven’t seen that yet,” offered my roommate.
“Uh-huh….I’ll just try again tomorrow when you’re sober.”
By the next morning, my supervisor had heard the story. And if you’re reading this then you can probably guess how that part turned out.
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October 30th, 2007 at 1:15 am
And hence, number two: ‘”My proper military title is “Specialist Schwarz” not “Princess Anastasia”.’
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October 30th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
#2 just became so much funnier! I just wish someone had had a camera to record that moment.
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October 31st, 2007 at 7:27 am
Oh gods, my cough! ‘Tis aggravated!
*is laughing so hard that her cough is worsening* Ahhhh, but it’s worth it! Excellent story, Skippy! And I’m sure that, had video been taken, you would have shared it with us…
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October 31st, 2007 at 3:21 pm
I agree with Analee, the funny factor here is much too high for us sick people =)
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October 31st, 2007 at 3:49 pm
If you guys are ever interested in chatting with eachother outside of the comment section… use this link, it works for any website… http://www.gabbly.com/skippyslist.com
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November 2nd, 2007 at 9:36 pm
I never did get that one, figured it had to be an inside joke. Haha, brilliant one =D I’ve loved this list for years now and it brings me laughs very often =D Not to mention the Harry Potter spin-off of it :p
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November 9th, 2007 at 6:47 am
Laughing makes it hard to think. I found a bleach spin off :P and a fanfiction involving Skippy being in Bleach(a japanese anime and manga series)
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Snyarhedir reply on January 26th, 2011 6:34 pm:
Oh, God help us all.
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November 10th, 2007 at 2:05 am
Skippy, I know you must hear this all the time, but man.. you’re my hero.
And, just so you know, up here in Canada, your list’s URL gets passed around more than a whore on a submarine.
The Canadians love you man =]
& just remember, up here, we’ve got “all beaver & no Bush” =P
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January 27th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
There’s a harry potter spin off of it?
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February 12th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Dude… thats awesome.
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February 14th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Two makes sense now! We’ve got a guy here we call Mario becuse he had the poor fortune to come in wearing a red shirt and overalls and no idea what Mario is.
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April 4th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Okay bursting out laughing at work makes your supervisor question your sanity…quiet day+bored SrA=coworkers slowly backing away
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January 26th, 2011 at 6:37 pm
I still have to watch that movie. By the way, what are dress blues?
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September 24th, 2014 at 11:58 am
Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you relied on the video to make your point. You definitely know what youre talking about, why waste your intelligence on just posting videos to your weblog when you could be giving us something informative to read?|
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