The sun is rising and you should be getting some daylight in a few hours.
Guess that is my queue to get into bed. I WAS headed there at midnight but I wound up having some extra work to finish. Ahh well...Such is the life in a night moderator. 🙂
is it 4 am there? Trying to picture timezone map.
Yup. 4:13 am to be exact.
> Guess that is my queue to get into bed. I WAS headed there at midnight but I wound up having some extra work to finish. Ahh well...Such is the life in a night moderator. 🙂
FINALLY! No moderator!
Now what was that website I was going to post on here that I knew would get deleted?:-D
> FINALLY! No moderator!
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> Now what was that website I was going to post on here that I knew would get deleted?:-D
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> here it is
Not quite yet. 😛 Yer not getting rid of me THAT fast. 😉
What is with the ihategilis? What did he do? Too tired to read that site; the color is hurting my delicate eyes. 😛
John could tell you all about that Gillis character. It's sordid and involves a falcon but not a maltese one.
It started back in 2003. Sort of by accident.
Gillis is what my Army buddies called me because they couldn't get my name right so they just made up something close. GILLIS. it didn't even start as Gillis and I had a different 'nickname' depending on who I was talking to.
Even the company commander, while our company was in formation pointed me out for something and called me Gillis. He quickly corrected himself but the formation came to life anyway.
Everybody needs somebody to hate so I let everybody hate me. It was in good fun and all of course.
Instead of getting a good morning I would get I hate you Gillis. Now this is from my best friends.
To this day when friends from the deployment see the their first words are I hate you gillis. It feels good to be so hated. 🙂
I can't pin piont the exact moment it all started.
We used to give each other 'rack' checks. You kick the crap out of our buddies cot and yell 'GET UP OUTA THERE!'
One morning I was tired but awake and my buddy debo comes in and tells me to get up out of there and said if I didn't I was getting a rack check. We actually called them "get up outa theres" not rack checks. Anyway, I said, "If you do it, you're going to pull back a bloody stump.' Of course everybody laughed and debo said, "God I hate you gillis, Home don't you hate Gillis?"
Can't say that was the beginning but it grew from around that time.
Second deployment some of the guys from the first deployment came with me. So did the name. The 'I hate you gillis' died down for the most part. Some people that didn't understand it became offended on my behalf. But I explained that is the way it was. I am here to for others to hate me.
It's a great way to get your friends to 'chill out'. It was a constant joke and everybody laughed no matter what was going on when somebody said they hated me. I guess I kinda helped people keep their mood light.
Third deployment some of the guys from my first deployment came with me, including my best friend Homer and Debo. So of course the 'I hate you gillis' came back hot and heavy so I made a website as a joke to the platoon.
Nobody really hated me. That was the joke. Everybody actually looked to me for many things.
I was the release valve on a pressure cooker I guess. 😉
Thats the short version of the story and the pic of 'Gillis' are me. I photoshopped my nametag to say Gillis instead of Giles.
Now I can continue on with the Blue Falcon part of the story.
My brother-in-law is in the air national guard and his last name is Fish.
When his son joined up the folks on the base took to calling him Guppy.
Blue Falcon they also called me. "I hate you Gillis, you're a Blue Falcon." Blue falcon in military talk is buddy f'er. That started over laundry. Cabbage (can't tell you how he got his nickname. I know how but board sensors wouldn't approve) Anyway he wanted his laundry done, I was going to do it, squad leader said don't worry about it he has down time tomorrow and he can do his own, so I didn't take his laundry. Cabbage came back from training and blew a gasket at me. Of course we all laughed until we cried at his antics but that's how blue falcon started. he was not saying 'blue falcon' as he carried on for hours which turned in to days about his stinkin laundry.
Heck these guys would come up beside me and try to dodge my shadow! Don't let the Blue Falcon Gillis' shadow touch you! A huge joke that still goes on. Though the shadow part of it has pretty much died out.
you have to remember most of these guys were pretty young and they need distraction. So I gave it to them.
I used many of the things from my deployments in the book I wrote, Deral and a very few other people have read.
I took characteristics of people I deployed with and multiplied them 1000 fold to create characters in my book. Not all of the characters just some of them. Many peoples names are in the book or I took two friends names and put them together to make a character name.
Homer and Debo, Debo's real last name is Debar. was combine and given to an animal. Hombar.
Debo got his name because at the time jennifer Lopez was being called Jalo. We started, I think actually Homer started, calling him that. It stuck.
Homer Holton, his nickname is homer. I know kinda strange but almost everybody else was called by their last name except for him. We called him by his first name as a nickname even though it really is his first name.
I have several chapter devoted to the Blue Falcon, which in the military is not an honorable name however I accepted it graciously as it fit right in with the hate for me.
> Not quite yet. 😛 Yer not getting rid of me THAT fast. 😉
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> What is with the ihategilis? What did he do? Too tired to read that site; the color is hurting my delicate eyes. 😛
See that is when you say 'I HATE YOU GILLIS!' for making my eyes hurt.
Everybody needs somebody to hate. This is a truth that can't be denied. Everybody hates somebody, why not just hate gillis instead?
No matter what bad happens blame gillis and hate gillis for it.
If you don't hate Gillis, you don't know Gillis.
Guppy thats pretty good.
We had a Pretty Ricky. This guy was always CLEAN! don't know how he did it. We would go weeks without showers and pretty ricky was just as pretty somehow.
had a smacky. He got his name from the way he ate a melting ice cream bar. His son deployed with us on number 3 and he was little smack.
Our platoon sergeant was the Bald Falcon. It is what I am supposed to aspire to become some day as the story goes. I am still the Blue Falcon and will one day grow into the Bald Falcon.
So many nicknames. Can't remember peoples real names anymore.
First deployment everybody got a radio handle. We used Sincgars (single channel ground and airborne radio system) like cb's. We were on our own freq and out in the middle of nowhere so it didn't matter if we used them by regs or not. At least not to us. 🙂
spent the last few years trying to forget. This stuff is good though. no need to forget.
exact?
Then why is there a 4:12 next to your name?
😉
Does anybody really know what time it is?
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Eh, hate is overrated!!
You look GOOD in uniform John!! 😉 :music:
Now why didn't they just stick with "Gills". That would of been easier. Sorta like a cool fish out there in the desert, our protector and hero!
