AIR FORCE INFORMATION WARFARE CENTER - LACKLAND AFB, TX:
"We take our jobs seriously but we don't take ourselves seriously at all."
"Happiness is having a line number."
"Helicopters don't fly. They just beat the air into submission."
"What's the matter? You look like you've got a rod up your butt with a rod up its butt!"
"Mmmmmm!!! Smell that? That's crap burning off the inside of the oven!" -Duff
"Anyone seen my dongle?" -MSgt F
"Someday I too want to be carried along, atop a concert crowd, in my underwear."
"His goal in life is to retire a lieutenant colonel and then go be the lifeguard at the pool at Tyndall (AFB)."
"I'm retired Air Force. My friend here is retarded Navy."
"[The movie] Time Machine had about as much intellectualism as this [dinner] plate." -Freddo
"Simon says 'You will comply'." -Maj K
"What do I look like--a CRON job?" -Dave B.
"Khaki's are so 20th." -Freddo
"That movie [rating] gets one burp ... not even worth the effort to force out the second." -Duff
"That spoiler makes that Neon go from zero-to-dumb twice as fast." -Duff
"Age and treachery will conquer youth and skill." -LTC H
"Are there any others questions I can say 'no comment' to?" -LTC C
"I didn't go to college to click on printers." -Freddo at an Net Vuln Assessment
"Vanilla Ice has made himself a life-long career of getting his a$$ kicked."
"This new Dell is a steamy, sloppy piece of sh$t!" -Shmoov
"Ever seen the 1951 movie 'Vikings' with Kirk Douglas? Now that's a man's movie. Where else can you see axes thrown at women?"
"What does the column 'with contractor' mean on this form? Perhaps it has the same meaning as 'with child'?" -Chris
Leon's way of posing the question of who farted: "Alright--who dropped treats?"
"We need the guys in the little white coats to come out and give you an 'I love you' jacket." -Chris
"Life is short. Eat dessert first." --Dave
"I cannot answer that question without first consulting my attorney.. and my mom." --Chris
"My upgrade in magic points wasn't even enough to cast [the spell] 'scratch my a$$'" --Chris
LEVEL 1 ANTI-TERRORISM BRIEF WITH MSGT. S
"Air Force Security Police invented chicken McNuggets -- at our squadron, we detonated blasting caps in frozen chickens."
Testing the wireless MIC: "Can you hear me now?"
"If you wanna drink [at overseas nightclubs], go home and do it alone--then lie your butt off on the social actions forms."
"If you've been contaminated, don't walk down the hall to tell the security guy that."
Looking at a black, gooey brain infected by Anthrax: "This is my wife's brain on algebra"
"Your low threat areas include Vietnam--so go there for your next vacation."
"You know--when the cops wear those Ninja Turtles outfits at the gate--with the helmet and get-up?"
"I've never been a patrol car-drivin', twinkie-eating cop."
"Don't wear your uniform when traveling overseas even though you're supposed to--just take the Letter of Reprimand ... it's better ... just kidding."
OSAN AB, SOUTH KOREA
Looking at the facing direction of the multiple Patriot missile batteries: "Well I guess you know which direction north [Korea] is..."
Referring to the "Juicy Girls" of the Songtan district: "Don't worry about how much money you spend on her, she'll still love you the same tomorrow."
Proposed bullet on Fred's OPR: "Combed by hair so strategically it brought down the Iron Curtain and saved the Air Force $60 million in retention costs alone."
"His script is really sexy." -K.K.
"I hate redundancy! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!" -J.B.
"I like to get things done, not boot into Linux." -J.B.
Referred to "Aviation Week and Space Technology" magazine giving away Air Force aircraft frequencies: "In aviation leak and spy technology..."
"The Wing Commander is always on time. If he shows up at the meeting 20 minutes after it starts, he's on time."
"When using a two-way radio, point the antenna upward so that the signal travels parallel to the ground. If you point
the antenna parallel to the ground, you'll only be talking to God."
The wrong way to assure if your commander is aware: "Sir, I don't know if you know anything or not..."
"If you want your name on a federal warrant, then come do what we do."
When someone was asked their official date of service: "Uhhh... first day of boot [camp]...?"
"On some missions, we bought... kind-of-explosives..."
"If you're caught and arrested by the S.P.'s then you owe the whole team beer."
"Doctors ... the only kind of people who make colonel in five years!"
"Mmmmm.... the smell of fried turds... must be Whataburger."
"This IS a special day for you--I let you live."
"I was interrupted from surfing the Internet." -J.V.
"Alright--who used my name in vain?" -Z
"You can't tell if he's happy or not ... you ask him how his day is and he looks at you like you asked for his ATM PIN number" -Leon
"Ettercap is my best friend." --Z
"I'm gonna fail this test--it's gonna be great!" -L.T. N. from the 262
"Ok, you lead, I'll follow. Last time I tried to drive it, I took a wrong turn and ended up in hell." -Pedro
"Never get arrested on an empty stomach" -Horn
"Today's exercise is called, 'Bad Day at the Office'"
"If you lose this temporary I.D., you--not the thief--will be shot"
"This is the plan to make the world safe for Wheaties."
"It's [Dameware] very cool. It's VNC on steroids, vitamins, and crack." -Fische
"Hey! I went to Squadron Officers School--I think I know how to make a PowerPoint "overview" slide..."
"50 Cent ... yeah, that's about as much as I'd pay to listen to his music..."
"There's a little bit of 'quitting' in everyone--you just have to find it." --JB
"I'm allergic to Telnets."
"The JavaGUI obviates--not ovulates."
"I'm a 'rubber stamp' Tech Lead."
In response to being told the band, 'lords of acid' is cool: "What kinds of acid are they lords of?--sulfuric? nitric?" -SR
"The 'web-telnet-no-PW'? How does that work?"
"I can sleep while I'm driving--just not when I'm hopped up on caffeine."
BLACK HAT/DEFCON 2003, LAS VEGAS, NV
"What's the future of PGP in the next 10-15 years? Well, it's the 21st century and we were promised space cars! Where are
my space cars!?" -Phil Zimmerman, President/CEO of PGP
"Ken was more excited about this action than when he worked for the three-letter agency that faked the moon landing."
"Our schedule is aligned so that we're the first [group] to get to the coffee break."
"If attorney says, "Wouldn't you agree that...," I'd never say yes
"Just fax me all the data on the entire computer."
"The Singapore police had all the computer forensic information except the time the suspect is supposed to be beaten."
"I know this app[lication] is not normally used by human beings--it's weirdware."
"I know there are some Microsoft people in the audience--I don't like you either."
"The Chinese hacking toolkit has a tool to hide the instance of your program running from Task Manager.
That troubles me--I'm going to ask God about that someday."
"If the government asks you to go to sunny Iraq, where there's free shrapnel for all the little kiddies..."
"This is better than peanut butter and napalm!"
"[On the stand,] you could say, 'would you please repeat the question?' or in Beaumont, Texas, say, 'huh?'"
"You don't need a husband or wife--you need [the program] WinHex!"
"We can create a fake [browser] certificate relying on browser misconfiguration or user dumbness."
"Getting fired is the only thing I can really count on around here" -J
"You got an issue? I got a tissue."
Alternate description for money: "A phat stash of off-the-hook bling bling."
Answer to the question if you're going to 'the staff meeting': "Sure--I could use a nap."
"You are such a loser, dude--having a SCO coffee cup." -Karl
Land Navigation instructor: "It has come to my attention there're multiple verions of this map. ...It's probably not a big deal."
"I would be in your debtness." -Ryan
"Why not Minot? Freezin's the reason." -Maj D.
"They need to take the designer of the San Antonio freeway system, attach electrodes to his testicles and
stand him on a MRE box, with a hood over his head."
"I'm your typical American... I want to go out in my front yard, walk across my grass in my bare feet, talk to my rosebushes and
shrubs ... and water the $hit out of 'em..." -M.M.
"Euthanasia? Who cares about kids in Asia?"
"I really liked the project. It was completely pointless and totally dumb ... but we did it!..."
Briefing on identity theft: "We're breeding a society of people who love to talk (cell phone voice/text, chat rooms, Internet) and now we're trying to teach them to shut up."
"I refer back to my Army training ... of which I have none." -Maj F.
Another name for shrimp-flavored Ramen cup-o-noodles: "Rubberbands and shrimp for lunch, eh?"
"The Air Force isn't old enough to have traditions yet ... we have 'promising trends'"
"Secure SSH tunnels are just cryptological poo-poo" -K.K.
"For a good time, telnet to..." -M.S.
"Where is my car battery and nipple clamps cable?" -Maj F.
"This job just keeps getting funnerer and funnerer." -Seabass
"In my experience, there are two forms of authorization: #1 is formal, written approval; #2 is the 'you didnt say I couldn't' approval." -Space
"Nobody gets a perfect mid-term performance feedback...except Jesus." -Maj D.
BASIC LIFE SUPPORT (BLS) CLASS, WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER
"If the victim is decapitated or cut in half, then you will not do CPR."
"Don't perform care on a child without parents' consent; otherwise, parents would go apenuts."
"I came in late [to work] so I'm making up for it by leaving early."
"Alright, ladies and germs..." -Maj W.
Written on paper: "50% Crumley + 50% Werling = 100% wrong"
"I had a classified thought at home, last night..." - Dr. B.
"Let me add, one more time, that I am busting with pride." - Col N.
"In my 21 years in the service, this is the best organization I've ever worked with. That's my squishy-squishy..." - Chief S.
"What happens is this history report is packaged in a crate, buried in the basement of the White House by an FBI guy ... like when Indiana Jones found the crypt of doom."
"He's not here. He went to Colonel Boardman's thing-ie-doo." -SrA W.
18TH MAINTENANCE SQUADRON - KADENA AB, JAPAN & PSAB, SAUDI ARABIA: (Thanks, Matt)
Feedback on an EPR: "Need new line 13 with zing!"
"So yeah, the other day I saw a Saudi woman in her abbaya...and I caught just a glimpse of her ankle!
It was so hot...I had to take a cold shower." --SMSgt Herd
"Well, we don't have any power right now...so we can't use our computers or email or anything...and we're
engineers...so we're just gonna go home before it comes back on." --1Lt Broder
"I took your chair because I'm a Chief and you're not, and also because I'm permanent party and you're not.
So basically you're a$$ out." --CMSgt Swain
"Well, congratulations Matt, I see you've been promoted from butt-boy to pivot man!" --Maj Wood
Conversation...
Capt Reynolds: "Hey, you two are my new Maintenance Analysis and Data troops, huh? Well, what did you do at your last base?"
A1C Stevens: "Sir, we analyzed stuff."
Capt Reynolds: "Oh...what kind of stuff?"
SrA Jones: "Data."
Capt Reynolds: "Yeah...I guessed that."
A1C Stevens: "Yeah, you just give us some data, and we'll analyze the heck out of it!"
SrA Jones: "But we only like maintenance data. We don't like any other data."
Capt Reynolds: "..... I'm gonna put you guys in the office farthest away from me."
"You know, life is pretty strange sometimes, and you just never know when you're gonna need a
5/8 drill bit." --TSgt Reder
Status report from the backshop: "We're not real motivated today...we're pretty much low-speed,
high-drag. In fact, we're going to lunch. Again." --SSgt Curtis
"Supply are two-time losers...nobody wants us, and we're starting to get a complex about it." --Lt Col Hession
Sign on egress truck: "363rd Ejection Section: WE PUNCH OUT PILOTS!"
Lt Col Lundell (LG/CD) on priorities: "I can't talk re-org issues right now, Capt. Reynolds.
Can't you see I'm making popcorn?"
"I'm so busy, I don't even have time to pee! It'd be easier if I just peed in my pants." --Capt Mark Thurbush
Sign posted outside one of the buildings in 'Ops Town' by a cactus and some sort of bush: "Base Housing Yard of the Month"
"I miss my girlfriend, man. Of course, I also miss my wife..." --Maj Wood
"Those guys wrote us up for having an eyewash station in direct sunlight, 'cause it gets too hot. Well, duh...so I wrote, 'Corrective action: Turned off sun'." --SMSgt Herd
"However, today I got an interesting request. The substance of the request was that the
guys down at Depot would like to make a certain modification to the mighty E-8 JSTARS aircraft,
so that it would be better equipped to assist with carrying out the Air Force's mission of
Transformation--that is, transforming living bad guys into dead ones. The request--which I can
only pray comes to fruition soon--was to install a microwave oven in the E-8 Joint Stars.
America's Air Force: Death from Above...and Hot Pockets for All!" -Matt
INCIRLIK AB, TURKEY:
"Little kids are like beer--shake em up and they foam."
"When parties get out of control, the Security Forces morale control team arrives."
Regarding the rear fold in pilot's blue flight caps: "What's the deal with you people who
do that to your flight caps? Is it: 'the bigger the smash the bigger the dork'?"
SQUADRON OFFICER SCHOOL (SOS), Class 2004G, MONTGOMERY, AL:
"Dude! You just drove into town and the first thing you did before school started was drink at a bar until 6AM?
You're my hero!" -Reynolds
"When we're playing against the other Flights in flickerball, I want blood, because that's what makes the grass grow!"
"I was the #5 graduate in my class ... of 5."
"If you allow an incoming telephone call to the classroom phone, I will pick up, ask who the phone call is for, hang
up on that person and then beat you up."
"If you've had too much to drink, call me and I'll drink you home. If you're calling me because you're in jail
for a DUI, I will take you out into the woods and kill you."
"Ok, Ingrid, you read the first sentence of the paragraph and then the rest of you gangbang it."
"I will be really disappointed if I serve 20 years in the Air Force and not have killed anyone."
"Dude--you're a janitorial engineer? I never made it past hamburger technician." -#9
"There's gravel and unpaved road on the running path. It's not dangerous ... Well, it's AETC-dangerous..."
"The presentation is about to begin. Please switch pagers, cell phones and babies to vibrate."
"It was simulated, real-world."
Referring to the country bar, 'Pure Country': "Yeah, we're going to dinner and then later we'll meet you at ... uh, what's that place ... the Electric Belt Buckle"
Regarding (former) Strategic Air Command (SAC): "I am a SACumcised killer, HUAH!"
"Anytime you have to PT without your hands in your pockets--you're doing something wrong. Now grab your pocket
and pull..."
Regarding The Ken Blanchard Situational Leadership Model II: "I'm gonna go S1 on your D2 a$$!"
"I forgot my wedding ring, today; I left it back on Bourbon St."
AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, OH:
"Today, I'll be briefing you on the dangers of the '101 Critical Days of Summer' because I recently became a statistic."
CSCE 544 DATA SECURITY:
"The writers of the RSA algorithm aren't famous--they're just mushrooms in a basement, like the rest of the company employees"
"I'm the easiest teacher and grader in this school; you did the right thing by signing up for this class."
"I'll sign anything [leave request] but play 'fat old man' if you get in trouble."
"Well, we just had a 20 minute break. Extended breaks like this make me the most popular teacher."
"If you know Alice and Bob, you know 99% more about crypto than the rest of this world."
"Number theorists have a bad reputation in the math community--don't ever turn your back on one."
"When the power goes out and Dayton-Power&Light won't turn the power back on until you tell them the greatest common divisor
of 34 and 170, you'll know what to say."
"Von Kasiski liked to work in his garden and then go inside and break that son-of-a-b!tch Vigenere's cipher"
"Don't try to factor this number on your computer--if you do, it will turn into a space heater."
"Back when these guys were developing their number theorems, the height of tech support was sharpening your pencil!"
After an hour on explaining exponential ciphers: "So here's the good news... I saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by sticking to Nationwide (and got a couple of fire extinguishers and a smoke alarm to help lower my homeowner's cost!)"
"It's the most non-sensical thing you've ever heard!! Well, it ties for third place, anyway."
When a student talked about his girlfriend coming to visit for the weekend, the instructor says: "Look--no one cares, alright?!"
CSCE 489: OPERATING SYSTEMS:
"So Process-1 and Process-3 are competing to enter the CPU. Where's Process-2? He's off taking a toilet break..."
"I can explain this project: it's like a brain massage...or a 15-round knockout"
"2 to the 64th... what is that--a ka-doodle byte?"
CSCE 527: CYBER FORENSICS:
When a bad joke was made: "R-R-R-R!! That's a courtesy laugh." --MSgt C., USMC
"Dude--when I was in bed, last night, I had an epiphany."
"Because of its changing nature, it's kinda dynamical..."
INTRO TO OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING:
"I did know; I just didn't know I knew." -Dr. B.
"Roses are red, violets are blue, make a constructor, or the compiler will do it for you" -LtC H.
ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING:
"...So don't go pulling stuff out of your...previous classes." -LtC H
"Watch out for bad 'code smells'" -Maj G
"Now aren't you glad you don't live in a typeless world? When you do, a whole new world
opens up where you can shoot yourself in the head."
Instead of 'food for thought?': "Food for indigestion?"
"There's nothing that can't be fixed with one more layer of indirection. If that doesn't
work, just add one more layer."
"Wasted away again in Objectville..."
AUTOMATA, FORMAL LANGUAGE THEORY:
"The set of Natural numbers goes N={0,1,2,...}. Some have published that N begins at 1. These are evil people which you should stay away from."
"There are a lot of things to consider here. #1: Who cares?..."
"You don't know 'Sterlings Approximation'? Then beat up a math guy until he tells you."
"Don't worry--instead of making the same mistakes over and over again, I've got fresh, new, exciting mistakes."
"I'm sure 'the pumping lemma' is the talk at all the parties."
"I don't recommend you try and make the polynominal formula out of this. It's deadly dull."
"Some things in this universe are more infinite than others."
"I want you to turn in your mid-terms to me by Friday so I can ingore them on my coffee table for the whole weekend."
"That's why you're here in this class: to suffer through nightmares."
After the lesson: "You'll feel better when the swelling goes down."
"You've heard of a 2-pair 'paradox hotel' ... but how about a 'tripadox hotel'?"
"Don't drive and derive (formulas)."
"So next time you go to the 'Bucket of Blood' tavern..."
When the student asked, "How do you explain the set containing all sets that doesn't contain itself?": "When you die, you're going to hell, for asking that."
"Alan Turing--who invented the Turing Machine--couldn't administer crap."
"Don't come to me with your mid-term score and say you got 6 points but he got 9, for the same error. If you do, I'll take off 3 from him instead of giving you three more."
"So feel free to stay for this optional course, unless you have extenuating circumstances...like your wife and girlfriend are both pregnant."
PARALLEL/DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS:
"Some people swear by this machine ... others swear at it." -Dr. L.
"I know Dr. L is glad for us to be here ... and that we're not enjoying ourselves..." -Lt. L
"This school has hung a 'steak on a stick' for me to catch...and now that steak has rotted and fallen off...and I'm not
hungry anymore." -Capt S.
MACHINES, LANGUAGES AND LOGIC:
"Doesn't Godel's 'Theorem of Incompleteness' shatter an ideal of reason? Yes--just to piss you off!"
This theorem says, 'to hell with you and your tricky crap.'"
I've read existential philosophy in my younger years and it's a crock of bubbling shit."
"The Afghans have a DRMO [Defense Reutilization Management Office] program...it's called a Bazaar."
"My f*$(% Unit hasn't called me in the whole time I've been here! They didn't even call to ask if I have any more holes."
"If you want to know what an a$$hole looks like, just look at an MPRI contractor."
"I got the commander in a corner last night and I planted a seed in him, about this subject."
"The meeting was three hours long; I had my iPod on some of the time but slept through most of it."
"I'd rather chew on the bottom of a shoe than eat spam."
"It's not raining… it's 'sky P'."
"My getting this to Reggie is like throwing a potato chip in a tornado -- it won't make it."
"I think he's Danish or Irish or some sh!t like that."
"I had an unfair advantage…I was alive at the time."
"'Unthaw'--how stupid is that--I'm not going to re-freeze my TV dinner… it's like 'hot water heater'--the water's already hot!"
"I’m not happy until you're not happy."
"I've got nothing to hide from my wife … anymore."
"Basketball is just a bunch of guys in underwear trying to get a round ball into a bucket."
"There's wrong…and then there's Army wrong."
"They don't know what they need to do but they want to do more of it."
"These guys need to drink a warm glass of 'get your sh!t together'."
"The way I fished in Vietnam: threw a grenade in the lake and picked up what landed on the shore."
"Let me kiss you’re a$$ and say 'you were right,' three bags-full."
"These vehicles are so thin-skinned that the first time someone farts on it, it'll fall over and explode."
"So a chlorine attack happened and now they want us to saddle our gas masks to our side? Gee, let's see: chlorine gas melts plastic so when a bomb goes off, I want to rush to put my mask on so it can melt to my face?"
"The 'good-idea fairy' ran out of poop when that dumb idea was nix'd."
"If you ever get the feeling of not being hungry, it's because you're eating dirt."
"Hindsight is 50-50" - Col L.
"This guy had A.D.D.! He forgots things easily! He has a 2KB hard drive in his head!"
"Once you're an O-6, you don't read anymore...unless you have to sign it--and that's if they're not trying to get out of signing it."
"I told you already -- I have an overactive sniffer."
"It's ass-kickery in its highest form."
"He who has the most Top-Up Cards...wins."
"The national flower is the opium poppy--the national bird is the fly."
"Surely, there's a can of 'Afghanistan backbone' at the bazaar."
"So are you a licker or a sucker? Are you a cruncher?" (talking to a guy eating a lolly-Pop)
"DISA: where the sum of the parts is lesser than the whole. Those guys are 5 years behind on any project."
"What happens when you put two O-3s together? You get O-nothing!"