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The Phantom Blooper choose

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[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 203: Donlon says, grinning, ‘So did you ever meet the Phantom Blooper face to face?’ I say, ‘Does a teddy bear have cotton balls? Does Superman fly in his underwear?’.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 22: Down in the French Quarter they scored about one ton of Acapulco Gold from some black jazz musicians.
at Acapulco (gold), n.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 5: North of Hue City the Phantom Blooper is a salt and pepper team of snuffy grunts who guide the Marine patrols into L-shaped ambushes set by the Viet Cong.
at salt-and-pepper, adj.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 47: The only people I’ve ever understood and the only people who ever understood me are these hard-headed raggedy-assed grunts.
at ragged-arsed, adj.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 15: We are as happy as pigs in shit because killing is our business and business is good.
at ...a pig in shit under happy as..., adj.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 46: But Marines are not construction workers. [...] We are stone-hard kickers of enemy ass.
at ass-kicker, n.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 15: In Viet Nam nice guys do not finish at all and monsters live forever. You got to bring ass to get ass.
at bring ass to get ass under ass, n.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 38: I feel proud to be attacked by these brass-balled little hardasses, and proud to be killing them.
at brass balls, n.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 13: Inside the only guard bunker still standing in our area, our New Guy is busy choking his lizard [...] polishing his bayonet, just a little early-morning organ practice to cut the edge off the cold.
at bayonet, n.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 185: The beach bunnies were like pink frisky seals and promised to take off their bikinis if the Eskimo Commandoes would denounce Karl Marx.
at beach bunny (n.) under beach, n.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 32: He leans down into the Beaver’s face and grunts. ‘The Joker knows that you the beast because the Joker is a blue-eyed soul brother.’.
at beast, n.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 9: He took the bullet train to Kyoto, scarfed up beaucoup sake.
at beaucoup, n.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 45: Skinny gooks [...] and fireteams of teenaged whores who flashed bee-sting tits at us.
at bee-stings (n.) under bee, n.1
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 126: The last two are both over forty, [...] both of them too pale and too beefy to be lifer light colonels.
at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 9: He took the bullet train to Kyoto, scarfed up beaucoup sake and Japanese bennies, and took long hot baths with slant-eyed naked jailbait.
at benies, n.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 63: Then the NVA gooks would think we were bigshot civilian news reporters from New York City and wouldn’t shoot us in the back of the head.
at big-shot, adj.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 14: Half of my people are salty black grunts, but Black John Wayne has ordered the bloods to stand down and to stand by for mutiny.
at blood, n.2
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 181: Every guy in the ward with legs wants to jump her bones and every guy with hands tries to cop a feel.
at jump (on) someone’s bones (v.) under bones, n.1
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 147: One of the Seabees says, ‘Hey, baby-san, you souvenir me one boom-boom?’.
at boom-boom, n.3
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 48: We said, ‘Baby-san, you boom-boom?’ And she giggled, remember? She said, ‘You give me beaucoup money.’.
at boom-boom, v.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 147: This steam-and-cream is the most famous and most popular boom-boom parlor in Eye-Corps because it features only round-eyed whores, none over the age of fifteen.
at boom-boom parlor (n.) under boom-boom, n.3
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 170: A cheerful medic in a skuzzy boonie hat kneels down and whips out a morphine Syrette.
at boonie, adj.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 7: Down in the kill zone, the Kid From Brooklyn dittybops through budding gardens of metal planted thick with deadly antipersonnel mines.
at diddy-bop, v.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 234: Hey, I got me a job in Istanbul polishing brass-topped buildings, if that’s all right with you, and even if it’s not all right with you, shit-for-brains.
at shit-for-brains, n.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 23: Hey, man, don’t even talk to Black John Wayne about no Mickey Mouse listening posts and none of that other gung ho Audie Murphy whitebread shit.
at white bread, adj.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 28: This area is off limits to that fucking pogue lifer and his brown-nosers until we give him a First Platoon passport.
at brown-noser, n.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 171: A skinhead Lieutenant leans down and looks at my face. He’s a pudgy little guy, another wild-eyed butter-bar bucking for tracks.
at buck for, v.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 26: So if we be here to fight, why we bugging out?
at bug out, v.1
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 189: Man, you are so out of date, even your bullshit is bullshit.
at bullshit, n.
[US] (con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 12: Every twenty meters I stoop down and tug at the barbed wire [...] The tugging scares up bunker rats big enough to stand flat-footed and butt-fuck a six-by.
at buttfuck, v.
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