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  1. The horse head was there when he first got in bed and Jack came in drunk.

    Ole Jack Woltz could have been passed out drunk.

    He passed out dreaming of a female midget wrestler.

  2. On the theme of sound sleepers:

    When I was in the Army, a group of 5 or 6 guys had been out drinking (I was not among them). One of the guys passed out immediately when they got back to the barracks. Then, someone in the group thought it would be a good idea to shave off one of the guy’s eyebrows. Shaved it clean off without the guy waking up. However, he wasn’t very happy when he woke up the next morning to discover one of his eyebrows was missing.

    Then, when the First Sergeant addressed the entire company about the incident, he threatened to charge the prankster, if caught, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, with, I kid you not, defacing government property.

    I don’t know what was more surreal. Seeing a guy with one eyebrow walking around the base, or knowing that the prankster would be charged with the crime of defacing government property for shaving off an eyebrow.

    When none of the guys in the group would rat out the defacer of government property via eyebrow shaving, the First Sergeant was ready to bring them all up on charges. The Commanding Officer saw the injustice in that proposition and refused to go that far. So none of the guys were punished. While I always had a suspicion who I thought the guilty party was, I do not know with absolute certainty who the rogue eyebrow shaver was.

  3. My guess is that Althouse doesn’t know how resourceful evil men really are. Wouldn’t be the first time for that naif.

    As for you, neo, perhaps a bright green face is merely your real face from the planet Avatar. An alien being passing for human.

  4. Scott:

    I can well believe it. When I served in the IDF, there was a persistent rumor that jaywalking could be ticketed as a “suicide attempt”, which in turn came under the heading of “damaging military property”.

    (Since soldiers’ bodies were apparently IDF property under the law, and since losing IDF property was a crime, I used to ask, in all seriousness, if an IDF soldier could be prosecuted for going on a diet.)

    Me, I treated it as an example of the law being far more detailed than it needed to be. And I did eventually see a soldier ticketed for jaywalking… with the ticket reading “crossed street while not in crosswalk”. So there.

    cheers,
    DiB

  5. We were told in the Texas National Guard that getting a sunburn was a punishable offense, though I never remember seeing it done.

  6. I have always assumed that the degenerate Hollywood producer was asleep with chemical assistance as was the fad in those days out there. Our worst army prank involved a self-important spec-5 who always lorded his job over the rest of us. One day, after he was returning from presenting his slide show in Japan, we had short-sheeted his bed after sprinkling the sheets with spider hair (itching powder) and exchanging the soap in the showers with fake blood soap which turned the victim scarlet after lathering. The screams were delicious revenge for an insufferable stuffed shirt. The horse head in the bed was only the mob’s brutal version of our annoyed response to an annoying person.

  7. At the camp that my kids went to in Maine (youngest still goes, in fact), they call it “College Days,” and there are four teams rather than two, with the college names changing every year. But the funny part is that they always have a “fake break” a day or two before the real break. And when my son was a “super senior,” they did a fake fake break before the fake break. It was intentionally lame (they just stood there handing out sheets of paper and saying “College Days!”), prompting kids to sneer at them, “Worst fake break ever.” I don’t recall what the real fake break was.

  8. I remember that scene well. Don’t we all? My biggest regret? Woltz had the perfect opportunity to use that old joke: “why the long face?”

  9. I awoke a few weeks ago to my dog gnawing on a half eaten fish next to me in bed. Pet doors and living on a lake do have their downsides i suppose.

  10. all gone..
    competition bad for the slaves…
    so everyone gets a trophy and all moms are happy in a kind of more creepy version of stepford… (as they accept that their childrens trophy means something as they all do – which is what their masters tell them it means)

  11. Police have defused a bomb strapped to a teenage girl at a house in the wealthy Mosman suburb of Sydney. The drama began on Wednesday afternoon (local time) when an 18-year-old girl called police to alert them to the device. Police are reportedly treating the case an extortion attempt. Her parents were distraught according to police, and had not been allowed to speak to the girl. There were four specialist police officers in the house with the teenager, and the incident went on for over seven hours.

  12. the “Super Congress,” which was approved by the House yesterday and is set to be rubber stamped in the Senate today, will establish a new level of unaccountable government, and will strip elected representatives of the right to amend legislation or filibuster on whatever issues it sees fit, not merely limited to the debt situation.

    and the final touches on a supreme soviet with a third way model, is almost complete… what then comes next historically?

  13. Another question is: How did they get the head in the first place ? Presumably they had to kill the horse first, then saw the head off, which would have required lifting the head (because cutting something lying on the ground is difficult). Considering the weight involved, I think the job would have required at least 4 people, and couldn’t have been done silently.

  14. Love The Godfather.

    I always figured Woltz probably went to bed so doped up he didn’t notice anything.

    Either way, Johnny Fontaine got the part 🙂

  15. I was gonna say what artiedodger did about the horse head. Good tie-in. Nimble and on-topic..errr.. target.

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