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R. Lee Emery ..........

gesshotsgesshots Member Posts: 15,678 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2014 in General Discussion
Happy 70th Birthday !!!

AKA - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket

Here's your chance to post your favorite "Gunny" quote.

"I bet you're the kind of g u y who would **** a person in the * and not even have the common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you!"

[:0][;)][:D]
It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You refer to HONORARY Gunnery Sergeant Ermey. He didn't achieve that rank on his own. His highest rank was Staff Sergeant (E-6). He did serve in Vietnam, but in a staff/support role.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562
    edited November -1
    R. Lee Ermey has been acting far longer than he was a Marine. He's a lot of fun to watch doing his thing, he's just so damned good at it. Kicked * in Sponge Bob alright!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Lee_Ermey
  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I liked him in Siege of firebase Gloria.

    I like the scene where he is holding up the heads of the 2 guys who fell asleep on guard and says; Not only did so and so get their heads cut off they lost the fifty f---ing caliber machingun!



    quote:He didn't achieve that rank on his own. His highest rank was Staff Sergeant (E-6). He did serve in Vietnam, but in a staff/support role.
    Yep and he has never tried to say any different. For that I salute him. [;)]
    RLTW

  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
    You refer to HONORARY Gunnery Sergeant Ermey. He didn't achieve that rank on his own. His highest rank was Staff Sergeant (E-6). He did serve in Vietnam, but in a staff/support role.


    Yep
  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,375 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    he seems to really get into what ever role he plays , very entertaining fellow . except that dang Glock connection
    so many one liners he did hard to pick a good one and most would not ake it on the forum [:I]
  • DocDoc Member Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bugs Bunny (the cartoon character) was inducted into the USMC during WW II as a bond selling promotion and was discharged at the rank of Gunnery Sergeant.

    That's right, he's Gunny Bunny.
    ....................................................................................................
    Too old to live...too young to die...
  • gesshotsgesshots Member Posts: 15,678 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
    quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
    You refer to HONORARY Gunnery Sergeant Ermey. He didn't achieve that rank on his own. His highest rank was Staff Sergeant (E-6). He did serve in Vietnam, but in a staff/support role.


    Yep

    Yep and Yep !

    I was referring to the character and his rank in FMJ.

    Notice - "AKA - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket"

    [;)]
    It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    'Fact is, we got two cultures down here: a white culture, and a colored culture. Now, that's the way it always has been, and that's the way it always will be.'

    Mississippi Burning.

    Ermey as Mayor Tilman.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't watch imaginary stuff known as movies, but I have met R Lee a couple times. As an actor, he's very good at mouthing lines written for him, but he isn't the sharpest bayonet in the scabbard.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511
    edited November -1
    "What is your major malfunction, numbnuts?"
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
  • Mk 19Mk 19 Member Posts: 8,170
    edited November -1
    Ho Chi Minh is a son of a b--ch! Got the blueballs, crabs and the seven-year itch!

    Oh that's right, Private Pyle, don't make any f--king effort to get to the top of the f--king obstacle. If God would have wanted you up there he would have miracled your a-- up there by now, wouldn't he?

    Private Pyle, whatever you do, don't fall down, it would break my f--king heart! (Pyle reaches the top, and pauses) Well, what are you waiting for, up and over! (Pyle pauses) Are you quitting on me? ARE YOU QUITTING ON ME?! Well, are you? Then quit, you slimy f--king walrus-looking piece of s--t! Get the f--k off of my obstacle! Get the f--k down off of my obstacle! NOW! MOVE IT! Or I'm going to rip your balls off, so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world! I will motivate you, Private Pyle, IF IT SHORT-D--KS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!

    Did your parents have any children that lived?

    You're so ugly you can be a modern art master piece!

    I bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose.

    I don't like the name Lawrence, only friends and sailors are called Lawrence. From now on you're Gomer Pyle.

    What is your major malfunction, numbnuts?!

    Marines are not allowed to die without permission!

    I want that head so sanitary and squared-away that the Virgin Mary herself would be proud to go in and take a dump.

    It looks to me like the best part of you ran down the crack of your mama's * and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress.

    God has a hard-on for Marines because we kill everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours! To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls! God was here before the Marine Corps! So you can give your heart to Jesus, but your * belongs to the Corps! Do you ladies understand?

    Five-foot-nine, I didn't know they stacked s--t that high!

    If it wasn't for d--kheads like you, there wouldn't be any thievery in this world, would there?

    You had best unf--k yourself or I will unscrew your head and s--t down your neck!

    Private Pyle I'm gonna give you three seconds; exactly three-f--king-seconds to wipe that stupid looking grin off your face or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-f--k you! ONE! TWO! THREE!

    Private Pyle you had best square your * away and start sh--ting me Tiffany cufflinks or I will definitely f--k you up!

    Holy dog s--t. Texas? Only steers and atypicals come from Texas, Private Cowboy. And you don't look much like a steer to me so that kinda narrows it down.

    If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training... you will be a weapon, you will be a minister of death, praying for war. But until that day you are pukes! You're the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human f--king beings! You are nothing but unorganized grabasstic pieces of amphibian s--t!

    Get your fat * up there! I'll bet if there was some p--sy up there you would get up there, wouldn't you?

    Who said that? Who the f--k said that? Who's the slimy little Communist s--t twinkle-toed c--ksucker down here, who just signed his own death warrant? Nobody, huh?! The fairy f--king godmother said it! Out-f--king-standing! I will P.T. you all until you f--king die! I'll P.T. you until your a--holes are sucking buttermilk. Was it you, you scroungy little f--k, huh?!

    Private Joker? I admire your honesty. Hell, I like you. You can come over to my house and f--k my sister.

    I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair!

    Were you born a fat, slimy, scumbag puke piece o' s--t, Private Pyle, or did you have to work on it?

    Why you little maggot, you make me want to vomit!

    What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?
  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Mk 19
    What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?



    Upon reflection, if he could have, he might have realized that just might not have been the best choice of words to yell at a guy aiming a loaded M14 at his chest. [;)]
  • skicatskicat Member Posts: 14,431
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
    I don't watch imaginary stuff known as movies, but I have met R Lee a couple times. As an actor, he's very good at mouthing lines written for him, but he isn't the sharpest bayonet in the scabbard.


    It is better to paint on a blank canvas.
  • partisanpartisan Member Posts: 6,414
    edited November -1
    I heard every one of his one liners when I was at Parris Island in the mid 60's. Even the barracks look exactly the same in the movie FMJ. Some of the stuff the DI's yell really is funny, but only after you leave the island.
  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have meet the Gunny on several occasions. Here is a picture of him at the NC NRA convention a few years ago.

    img20110430150629.jpg
  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,065 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
    You refer to HONORARY Gunnery Sergeant Ermey. He didn't achieve that rank on his own. His highest rank was Staff Sergeant (E-6). He did serve in Vietnam, but in a staff/support role.


    Next you'll say Colonel Sanders wasn't a Colonel or Captain Kangaroo wasn't a Captain. As for Gunny Ermey I think he'd make a great crazy uncle until he gets on his slope rant [:D].
  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah, and General Motors was only a Lance Corporal.....
  • discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    he was in Missoula a couple years ago for some talk, he and his driver witnessed a guy lose his briefcase[with money inside] from the roof of his car. they stopped, picked it up, and followed the guy until he stopped and returned the briefcase. it was said to have over $15,000 cash in it.
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Capt Kangaroo was a Marine. Along with Mr Green Jeans.
  • Irish 8802Irish 8802 Member Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    So was Clarabelle,,(Howdy Doody) (For all you youngsters out there).I was in Plt 299 @ MCRD San Diego,Sept '57,,Yep I'm an old guy.
  • Mk 19Mk 19 Member Posts: 8,170
    edited November -1
    Jimi Hendrix was also a Marine
  • WearyTravelerWearyTraveler Member Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Mk 19
    Jimi Hendrix was also a Marine

    Actually not. Army...
    ”People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
    - GEORGE ORWELL -
  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Mk 19
    Jimi Hendrix was also a Marine


    101st

    He was a puking chicken.
    RLTW

  • mlincolnmlincoln Member Posts: 5,039 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My buddy's buddy swears this is a true story: He's out in California trying to break into the movie industry. He gets some job working set construction / gofer / whatever on a movie set. It sucks, but everybody has to start somewhere. One evening at the end of filming he and a couple other guys are standing behind some trailers smoking a joint before they go out for some beers. They're standing there, puffing away, when all of the sudden around the corner steps R. Lee Emery.

    He launches into Full Metal Jacket D.I. mode, "Well what the hell do we have here? What the hell are you doing on my movie set? Do you intend to smoke that joint and not offer it to me?" Everybody is stunned, and finally the guy holding the joint hands to to R. Lee Emery, and everybody laughs, and they all smoke the joint.

    Like I say, my buddy's buddy swears it's true. Even if it's not, I wish I was.
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by austin20
    quote:Originally posted by Doc
    Bugs Bunny (the cartoon character) was inducted into the USMC during WW II as a bond selling promotion and was discharged at the rank of Gunnery Sergeant.

    That's right, he's Gunny Bunny.
    [:D]


    And from what I found I think it was Master Sargent.
  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,065 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
    Capt Kangaroo was a Marine.

    But was he a Captain?
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by yoshmyster
    quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
    Capt Kangaroo was a Marine.

    But was he a Captain?


    No


    quote:during World War II, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, but was still in the United States when Japan surrendered.

    Never found a mention of rank.
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    On Bugs.

    quote:The U.S. Marine Corps were so thrilled that Bugs Bunny decided to become a Marine in this film that they insisted that the character be officially inducted into the force as a private, which was done, complete with dogtags. The character was regularly promoted until Bugs was officially "discharged" at the end of World War II as a Master Sergeant.[1]
  • fideaufideau Member Posts: 11,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ERMEY. ERMEY. ERMEY. "What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Let me hear your war cry. That's not a war cry! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! That's a war cry!"[:D]

    My son gave me an "action figure" in full dress of him that spoke about a dozen of his favorite phrases. It was a hoot.
  • yonsonyonson Member Posts: 950 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Clarabelle the clown (Howdy Doody) and Captain Kangaroo were the same guy: Bob Keeshan.
  • Mk 19Mk 19 Member Posts: 8,170
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by WearyTraveler
    quote:Originally posted by Mk 19
    Jimi Hendrix was also a Marine

    Actually not. Army...

    Oops, there goes my mind again, but he did serve, unlike most in his business
  • RobOzRobOz Member Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Mk 19
    quote:Originally posted by WearyTraveler
    quote:Originally posted by Mk 19
    Jimi Hendrix was also a Marine

    Actually not. Army...

    Oops, there goes my mind again, but he did serve, unlike most in his business


    It was join or go to jail. Also, they pretty much let him go because he did not want to be there.
  • Irish 8802Irish 8802 Member Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by yonson
    Clarabelle the clown (Howdy Doody) and Captain Kangaroo were the same guy: Bob Keeshan.
    You are correct!!! was inserted to see if anyone was my age..We may be the only ones to know this..
  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by RobOz
    quote:Originally posted by Mk 19
    quote:Originally posted by WearyTraveler
    quote:Originally posted by Mk 19
    Jimi Hendrix was also a Marine

    Actually not. Army...

    Oops, there goes my mind again, but he did serve, unlike most in his business


    It was join or go to jail. Also, they pretty much let him go because he did not want to be there.



    Jimi was in the 101st and was a Supply Clerk. The 101st was an Airborne unit at that time but I don't think he went to Jump School. He was discharged for being a screw up that needed close supervision and was discharged after about 18 months TIS. He was forced to join the army by a Judge.

    If you have never seen his discharge papers here they are. I guess he liked to use his hand for more than playing his guitar[:D]
    http://i0.wp.com/www.retronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/656.jpg

    Click on the second part of the link.
    RLTW

  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    edited November -1
    You know what makes me sad? You do! Maybe we should chug on over to mamby pamby land where maybe we can find some self confidence for you, ya jackwagon!
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
  • 35 Whelen35 Whelen Member Posts: 14,307 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Mr. Perfect
    You know what makes me sad? You do! Maybe we should chug on over to mamby pamby land where maybe we can find some self confidence for you, ya jackwagon!



    Tissue? Crybaby....
    An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
  • minitruck83minitruck83 Member Posts: 5,369
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by WearyTraveler
    quote:Originally posted by Mk 19
    Jimi Hendrix was also a Marine

    Actually not. Army...


    Country Joe McDonald was a squid. [V]


    Allen
  • beantownshootahbeantownshootah Member Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Funny, I just saw an episode of "Spongebob" where the prison warden was clearly voiced by Ermey. . .and it was hilarious.

    It was sort of the whole "Full Metal Jacket" thing, just delivered in rated "G" format for kids.
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