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Mr. Gainsborough
posted 03-09-2005 04:24:51 PM
Caller ID: US Govt.

ME: NO DON'T PICK UP THE..

Sister: *picks up phone* Hello?...Mark! It's for you!

ME: Oshi..

Those Marines guys are really friendly sounding, but what's the best way to say no to them?

Dr. Gee
Say it Loud, Say it Plowed!
posted 03-09-2005 04:26:07 PM
No thanks. I'm not interested in joining up. If this changes in the future i will get in touch with you.

*click*

Sean
posted 03-09-2005 04:26:21 PM
You're on prozac or ritalin.
A Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right, you go left.

It's not something people hear about.

Densetsu
NOT DRYSART
posted 03-09-2005 04:29:21 PM
quote:
Dr. Gee enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
No thanks. I'm not interested in joining up. If this changes in the future i will get in touch with you.

*click*


Yeah, you've pretty much gotta hang up on them. After a while, they'll stop bothering with you.

I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl, we ate lobster, drank piƱa coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over, and over?
Demos
Pancake
posted 03-09-2005 04:30:24 PM
The Navy recruiters I've talked to were actually quite friendly, even when I explained why I wasn't looking to join at the current time. Sure, they did try to tell me about how I could take classes while I was in, but just be mature about it, and if you're not interested at all, say so and be done with it.

Its not like they're going to kidnap you or anything

"Jesus saves, Buddha enlightens, Cthulhu thinks you'll make a nice sandwich."
Addy
posted 03-09-2005 04:31:45 PM
I have a hard time hanging up on people like that.

Cancelling an AOL account was the hardest thing I ever did.

Kermitov
Pancake
posted 03-09-2005 04:31:46 PM
Shrink, I wanna kill.

I mean I wanna kill.

I wanna see gore blood and guts veins in my teeth eat dead burnt bodies I mean kill.

kill KILL KILL KILL KILLL

I started jumpin up and down yellin KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL and the shrink started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumpin up and down yelling kill KILL KILL KILL until the Seargant came down pinned a medal on me and said "You're our boy!"

I didn't feel too good about it.

Katrinity
Cookie Goddess!
posted 03-09-2005 04:32:21 PM
quote:
Demos was listening to Cher while typing:
The Navy recruiters I've talked to were actually quite friendly, even when I explained why I wasn't looking to join at the current time. Sure, they did try to tell me about how I could take classes while I was in, but just be mature about it, and if you're not interested at all, say so and be done with it.

Its not like they're going to kidnap you or anything


Yeah, have to tell them no thank you enough times for it to sink in. Just don't go signing anything if they talk you into a meeting to go over stuff.

Cookie Goddess Supreme
Furry Kitsune of Power!
Pouncer of the 12th degree!
"Cxularath ftombn gonoragh pv'iornw hqxoxon targh!"
Translated: "Sell your soul for a cookie?"
Hostile Makeover
Evil as chocolate covered thistles
posted 03-09-2005 04:38:52 PM
And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, until the Sargeant came over, had some paper in his hand, held it up and said.

"Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the- crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked for forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there, and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the following words:

"KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?"

I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug." He looked at me and said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints off to Washington."

Xyrra fucked around with this message on 03-09-2005 at 04:41 PM.

Kaglaaz How'ler
Pancake
posted 03-09-2005 04:48:51 PM
Tell them you have religious issues with potentially needing to shoot someone. They should leave you alone.

But considering the GI Bill and other great training the Military offers, I've often wished over the years that I'd joined the Air Force like I'd originally considered...

http://www.bloodfin.net
Snugglits
I LIKE TO ABUSE THE ALERT MOD BUTTON AND I ENJOY THE FLAVOR OF SWEET SWEET COCK.
posted 03-09-2005 04:50:47 PM
Usually, a firm no does it.

It worked for me.

I'm not sure if being in AFJROTC made it more or less likely they'd leave me alone.

Snugglits fucked around with this message on 03-09-2005 at 04:51 PM.

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Bloodsage
Heart Attack
posted 03-09-2005 04:51:45 PM
quote:
Kermitov had this to say about Tron:
Shrink, I wanna kill.

I mean I wanna kill.

I wanna see gore blood and guts veins in my teeth eat dead burnt bodies I mean kill.

kill KILL KILL KILL KILLL

I started jumpin up and down yellin KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL and the shrink started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumpin up and down yelling kill KILL KILL KILL until the Seargant came down pinned a medal on me and said "You're our boy!"

I didn't feel too good about it.



Best song evar.

To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

--Satan, quoted by John Milton

Alaan
posted 03-09-2005 05:07:20 PM
quote:
There was much rejoicing when Bloodsage said this:
Best song evar.

Alice's Restaurant, right?

Hostile Makeover
Evil as chocolate covered thistles
posted 03-09-2005 05:08:36 PM
quote:
Alaan attempted to be funny by writing:
Alice's Restaurant, right?

Glory for the Masacree!

Zair
The Imp
posted 03-09-2005 05:12:27 PM
I got talked into a meeting even though there was no way in hell I wanted to join. I am so weak willed. Then I called back and said I changed my mind.
Bloodsage
Heart Attack
posted 03-09-2005 05:18:51 PM
It's a song about Alice--remember Alice?
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

--Satan, quoted by John Milton

Hostile Makeover
Evil as chocolate covered thistles
posted 03-09-2005 05:20:50 PM
If you wanna end war and stuff... you gotta sing loud!
Karnaj
Road Warrior Queef
posted 03-09-2005 05:27:35 PM
Best way is to just say no.

Though, you could always tell them you're gay, I suppose. Or mentally unstable. Oddly enough, I never got one call from the military back in the day. Do they just call at random, or do they have to get your name and number from somewhere?

That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. - Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith



Beer.

Kaglaaz How'ler
Pancake
posted 03-09-2005 05:33:09 PM
Probably they get some of your info from High School. Plus, all males need to register with Selective Service before they turn 18. Don't know if they use that for recruiting or not though.

http://www.sss.gov/

http://www.bloodfin.net
Densetsu
NOT DRYSART
posted 03-09-2005 05:35:04 PM
quote:
Karnaj wrote this stupid crap:
Best way is to just say no.

Though, you could always tell them you're gay, I suppose. Or mentally unstable. Oddly enough, I never got one call from the military back in the day. Do they just call at random, or do they have to get your name and number from somewhere?


They called me after I took the ASVAB, but after a while of politely telling them to go screw themselves, they stopped.

I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl, we ate lobster, drank piƱa coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over, and over?
Cavalier-
Pancake
posted 03-09-2005 05:39:28 PM
quote:
Nobody really understood why Bloodsage wrote:
It's a song about Alice--remember Alice?

Alice?? Who the F--k is Alice?

Another great song..

Cavalier-
Pancake
posted 03-09-2005 05:43:51 PM
quote:
Nobody really understood why Xyrra wrote:
If you wanna end war and stuff... you gotta sing loud!

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

War is something that I despise
For it means destruction of innocent lives
For it means tears in thousands of mothers' eyes
When their sons go out to fight to give their lives

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

Say it again

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

War
It's nothing but a heartbreaker
War
Friend only to the undertaker
War is the enemy of all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
Handed down from generation to generation
Induction
Then destruction
Who wants to die

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

Say it again

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

War has shattered many young men's dreams
Made them disabled bitter and meanLife is too precious to be fighting wars
each day
War can't give life it can only take it away

War
It's nothing but a heartbreaker
War
Friend only to the undertaker
Peace love and understanding
There must be some place for these things today
They say we must fight to keep our freedom
But Lord there's gotta be a better way
That's better than
War

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

Say it again

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

Maradon!
posted 03-09-2005 05:48:11 PM
quote:
Bloodsage had this to say about Optimus Prime:
Best song evar.

Officer, I cannot tell a lie.

I put that letter under that pile of garbage.

Callalron
Hires people with hooks
posted 03-09-2005 06:07:40 PM
We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up,
and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy
pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he
sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the
twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles and arrows
and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry,
'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American
blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the
judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy
pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each
one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us.
Callalron
"When mankind finally discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people are going to be upset that it isn't them."
"If you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day. If you teach a man to fish he'll just go out and buy an ugly hat. But if you talk to a starving man about fish, then you've become a consultant."--Dogbert
Arvek, 41 Bounty Hunter
Vrook Lamar server
Aury
My hair is a deadly weapon
posted 03-09-2005 06:58:23 PM
quote:
Cavalier- had this to say about Punky Brewster:
Alice?? Who the F--k is Alice?

Another great song..


Love that song.

Janus.
I am not a woman
posted 03-10-2005 01:16:18 AM
quote:
Snugglits's account was hax0red to write:
Usually, a firm no does it.

It worked for me.

I'm not sure if being in AFJROTC made it more or less likely they'd leave me alone.



Yes AFJROTC makes it worse, that one Marine guy would not stop calling.

Gains, start coughing like crazy and say "hold on a sec, I need to get my breathalyzer"

Kermitov
Pancake
posted 03-10-2005 01:57:56 AM
quote:
Alaan had this to say about John Romero:
Alice's Restaurant, right?

In five part harmony with full orchestration.

Leopold
Porn maniac
posted 03-10-2005 02:20:45 AM
The first time I ever had to deal with the recruiters--shortly before the end of high school--I played it courteous and kind and was enough of a creampuff to not be so rude as to just say "no thanks." After the immediate setup of a lunchtime appointment to address my would-be recruitment, I very quickly learned to change my tune. I've dealt with recruiters from every wing annually, since, and you eventually learn that even if you're the most polite person in the world to everyone else, if you're not interested, you've just gotta say it and be done.

Except for one naval recruiter, which is still the best phone conversation I've ever had.
"Hi, is it...Carl?"
"Uh, yes."
"This is <x rank, y name> from the US Navy. Tell me, Carl: have you ever given thought to joining the Navy?"
"Well...no, not really."
"...oh. Um...uh, why not?"
"Just doesn't interest me."
"Oh. Well, bye."

Best recruitment plan in history.

"Leopold said it best. This is one of the few times someone besides me is right." -Mr. Parcelan
Talonus
Loner
posted 03-10-2005 07:51:43 AM
Last time I dealt with a recruiter, I thought I was being courteous to him when telling him I'm not interested. Conversation ends with him saying "Well, we'll keep on defending our country for people like you who don't want to do it themselves. Bye." No exaggeration there. I thought they were supposed to sweet talk you, not be a rude arse. Was too lazy to call back and ask for a boss to complain.

Talonus fucked around with this message on 03-10-2005 at 07:51 AM.

Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael
I posted in a title changing thread.
posted 03-10-2005 08:57:25 AM
I took the ASVAB and scored pretty damned good. And some of the offers they made were mighty tempting, but I was still feeling out options. At the time, Lyinar and I weren't together, so I didn't really have a connection I needed to maintain with someone while in boot or whatever, so I gave it strong thought. Ended up deciding not to, and I just told them so. They were pretty cool about it.
Lyinar's sweetie and don't you forget it!*
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. -Roy Batty
*Also Lyinar's attack panda

sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me

-Yuri-
Pancake
posted 03-10-2005 09:12:59 AM
I was never even offered I guess that's because my brother is in the service.
Cobalt Katze
Pancake
posted 03-10-2005 10:29:14 AM
I had some wierd conversations with those recruiter guys...

"So, what're your hobbies?"
"I write music."
"You could join our band!"
"I sing."
"Oh."

And I really hated this one guy that called me at least 5 times. Their tactics really disturb me. They talk to you as if they've known you for your entire life. When I told him the army and whatnot had absolutely no place in my future, nor in my interests, he would constantly act as if he were personally hurt by my words.. Yeah.. go away peoples. Thankfully that was only while I was 18.

Big Easy
Pancake
posted 03-10-2005 12:49:49 PM
quote:
Check out the big brain on Xyrra!
If you wanna end war and stuff... you gotta sing loud!

quote:
"We are The Folk Song Army.
Everyone of us cares!
We all hate poverty, war and injustice,
Unlike the rest of you squares!

There are innocuous folk songs, yeah,
But we regard 'em with scorn.
The folks who sing 'em have no social conscience.
Why, they don't even care if Jimmy cracked corn.

If you feel dissatisfaction,
Strum your frustrations away.
Some people may prefer action,
But gimme a folk song any ol' day.
...
Remember the war against Franco?
That's the kind where each of us belongs.
Though he may of won all the battles,
We had all the good songs!

So join in The Folk Song Army,
Guitars are the weapons we bring
To the fight against poverty, war, and injustice.
Ready, aim, SING!!!"

-- Tom Lehrer's "The Folk Song Army"


"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Unbelievably, a goldfish can kill a gorilla. However, it does require a substantial element of surprise." -- George Carlin
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity." -- "The Second Coming" by Wm. Butler Yeats
Razor
posted 03-10-2005 12:53:37 PM
I got my stuff taken care of, plus give them a rant about a special diet and diabetes, and a heart condition, they'll not bug you anymore.
Astronomy is a passion...
Engineering is a love...
My job isn't a job, it's my career, and I love every minute of it: Observatory Superintendent
`Doc
Cold in an Alley
posted 03-10-2005 03:24:23 PM
quote:
Big Easy is attacking the darkness!
Folk Song Army
As of this moment, I like you.
Base eight is just like base ten, really... if you're missing two fingers. - Tom Lehrer
There are people in this world who do not love their fellow human beings, and I hate people like that! - Tom Lehrer
I want to be a race car passenger; just a guy who bugs the driver. "Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide..." - Mitch Hedberg
Please keep your arms, legs, heads, tails, tentacles, pseudopods, wings, and/or other limb-like structures inside the ride at all times.
Please submit all questions, inquests, and/or inquiries, in triplicate, to the Department of Redundancy Department, Division for the Management of Division Management Divisions.

Nae
Fun with Chocolate
posted 03-10-2005 03:48:20 PM
I remember the Marine recruiter calling me when I was about to graduate. I was thrilled, and I told the guy I would have to discuss it with my father. He wanted to take me out to lunch and talk more, but I had to insist that I had to talk to my father.

That night I broached the subject with my father, and he said "I will break both of your legs if you even consider joining up. Only dykes and whores for the Officers join the Marines."

I thought being around a bunch of dykes and whores sounded like fun!

The recruiter got really pissy and tried to convince me to rebel and join anyway. I told him, "my dad is an ex-Marine... I believe him when he says he would break my legs. Have a nice day!"

I honestly wonder how different my life would have been if I had joined.

I sometimes regret my choice.

Nae fucked around with this message on 03-10-2005 at 03:48 PM.

/dev/null
Pancake
posted 03-10-2005 04:01:18 PM
quote:
Nae got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
I told him, "my dad is an ex-MarineArmy... I believe him when he says he would break my legs. Have a nice day!"

Same thing, difference noted above.

And from what I've been told there are no ex-Marines. There are Marines, and then there are dead people.

Beep. Beep. Beep... Ohh... I think my porridge is done.
My fellow Americans, as you know, my foreign policy can be summed up in five words: "Iludium-236 Explosive Space Modulator."
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Mike the Butcher
Pancake
posted 03-10-2005 06:37:59 PM
I just tell them I'm not eligible due to being a diabetic(which I am) and they leave me alone.
bloodfyr
Pancake
posted 03-10-2005 07:06:12 PM
The only time I ever had that was a Marine at work saw me, laughed, and said I should join the Marines. I laughed, said no politely, he shrugged and that was that.

Though I would tell them I was gay (not too far from the truth anyway). That kept them away for my cousin.

"If you've got twins, why not sell one? You get a kid and a few extra bucks on the side." - George Carlin

*!Warning: Disregard everthing I post. The whiskey is probably speaking!*

Peter
Pancake
posted 03-10-2005 07:31:55 PM
The Goddanmed Army recruiters will not stop calling my house every 2 months. The college gives out it's student list for them to call.
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