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lol This one's for Carebear. From Stanley Kubrick's film, Full Metal Jacket:
Gunnery Sergeant Gerheim: "Does anyone known who Charles Whitman was?"
---------------------------(Blank faces.)
Gerheim: "None of you knows?"
---------(Private 'Cowboy' slowly raises his hand.)
Gerheim: "Private Cowboy?"
Cowboy: "Was he the guy that shot a lot of people from a roof?"
Gerheim: "That's right, Private Cowboy. He shot and killed twelve people from a 28-story observation tower at the
-------- University of Texas, from distances of up to four hundred yards. Does anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald
-------- was?"
--------- (Almost every hand goes up.)
Private 'Snowball': "He shot Kennedy, Sir!"
Gerheim: "That's right. And do you know how far away he was?"
Snowball: "It was pretty far. From that book suppository building, Sir!"
Gerheim: "Two hundred and fifty feet! He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target. He got
-------- off three shots with a bolt action rifle in six seconds, and got two hits, including a head shot. Do you know where
-------- those men learned to shoot like that?"
---------(Private 'Joker' raises his hand.)
Joker: "In the Marines, Sir?"
Gerheim (with great pride): "In the Marines! Outstanding! Now those people did not put their Marine training to a good
-------------------------- purpose but they showed what a Marine with his rifle can do, and before I am through you will
-------------------------- all be able to do the same thing."
.
Gunnery Sergeant Gerheim: "Does anyone known who Charles Whitman was?"
---------------------------(Blank faces.)
Gerheim: "None of you knows?"
---------(Private 'Cowboy' slowly raises his hand.)
Gerheim: "Private Cowboy?"
Cowboy: "Was he the guy that shot a lot of people from a roof?"
Gerheim: "That's right, Private Cowboy. He shot and killed twelve people from a 28-story observation tower at the
-------- University of Texas, from distances of up to four hundred yards. Does anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald
-------- was?"
--------- (Almost every hand goes up.)
Private 'Snowball': "He shot Kennedy, Sir!"
Gerheim: "That's right. And do you know how far away he was?"
Snowball: "It was pretty far. From that book suppository building, Sir!"
Gerheim: "Two hundred and fifty feet! He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target. He got
-------- off three shots with a bolt action rifle in six seconds, and got two hits, including a head shot. Do you know where
-------- those men learned to shoot like that?"
---------(Private 'Joker' raises his hand.)
Joker: "In the Marines, Sir?"
Gerheim (with great pride): "In the Marines! Outstanding! Now those people did not put their Marine training to a good
-------------------------- purpose but they showed what a Marine with his rifle can do, and before I am through you will
-------------------------- all be able to do the same thing."
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