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onetime2 · 10-26-2003, 05:14 AM

I'm a fairly sarcastic person (I think it's instilled in us from a young age here in New Jersey) and on occasion people just completely miss the fact that something I said is totally outside the realm of reality.

At a local Marine Corps reserve base we were setting up a navigation presentation for some Officer Candidates. One reservist is carrying this giant plywood compass which is used to show people the different parts of the compass (bezel, sight, etc). It's got to be 4ft by 4ft. I say to him, "You'd think they could make them smaller. It must be a real bitch carrying that in combat." He turns to me and says "It's not real, it's just a model." Me and another guy who understood what I meant just looked at each other and started cracking up.

10-26-2003, 05:14 AM	#1 (permalink)
onetime2 Junkie Location: NJ	Have you ever said something blatantly sarcastic that someone took seriously? I'm a fairly sarcastic person (I think it's instilled in us from a young age here in New Jersey) and on occasion people just completely miss the fact that something I said is totally outside the realm of reality. At a local Marine Corps reserve base we were setting up a navigation presentation for some Officer Candidates. One reservist is carrying this giant plywood compass which is used to show people the different parts of the compass (bezel, sight, etc). It's got to be 4ft by 4ft. I say to him, "You'd think they could make them smaller. It must be a real bitch carrying that in combat." He turns to me and says "It's not real, it's just a model." Me and another guy who understood what I meant just looked at each other and started cracking up.