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Write an epitaph for the characters


What should be written on each characters tombstone?

Barnes- Everybody Got To Die Sometime

Bunny- You're Walking Over Audie Murphy Here, My Man

Junior- Just Knew I Shouldn't Come

Wolfe- KIA in Vietnam While Saving Up To Be Jewish

Elias- We Lost This War and I Lost More Than That

For some of those who survived---

Taylor- A War is Over For Me Now

Captain- It Was A Lovely F'ing War

Crawford- Kiss My Azz, Man, I Never Thought I'd Get Planted

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For some of those who survived---

King - Good Lord, my boy!

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haha interesting topics pitt

taylor - bury me upside down so the world can kiss my ass (this is wrote on side of his helmet hahah)

junior - we're gonna get a high hiiiighh yes sir

elias - been kicking other peoples asses for so long i figure its time got ours kicked

barnes - i *am* reality

wolfe - just dont give a flying fuck anymore

bunny - aint nothing like being dead except the indy 500

captain - expend all remaining in my perimeters

king - goodbye muthafuckas!!!

crawford - think positive dude

rhah - if their is a heaven im drunk as a fuckin monkey and smokin shit

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LMAO! Nice job, BO and ebhaynz! You really outdid me there, BO. That was absolutely epic, my boy. The ones for King, Bunny, Taylor, Rhah, Crawford, and Elias were epic. As was the one that Francis actually said instead of Junior. Probably just a typo.

What would you write for the nerdlinger's epitaph? I would probably put his favorite saying to everyone Why Don't You Go and F-word Yourself. LOL.

How about the original predator? Anytime.

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ah yes haha i got junior and francis mix together! come to think of it pitt i dont have quote for junior anyway haha

for nerdligner i must steal quote from manly masterpiece harley davidson and the marlboro man -

nerdlinger: its better to be dead and cool than alive and uncool

predator: im using the trees

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Another one for Barnes could be---Death? What do you all know about death?

BO---your one for the nerdlinger immediately reminded me of the time that he parked his dirt bike in the middle of the road (back road) and was sitting on his bike sideways from the front and drinking whiskey with one hand and smoking with the other hand. I asked what the hell he was doing? A few seconds later he tipped over backwards on the bike and ended up with his whiskey pouring over himself. The guy was a bona fide nut!

Predator---He bled and they killed it.

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yes yes how did i not think of this haha. that quote sum up barnes in nutshell! he have so many great line. this man live for dying in war.

hahaha that nerdlinger is a legend of nerds. he can not do anything cool even if he try! just uncool pointdexter. you must always just think of this guy and laugh at him haha.

maybe just have this written on nerdlingers epitaph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8

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Barnes went out of his way to die in that war. Rhah said he was shot seven different times and eight if you count the final battle (shot in legs by NVA). When Taylor capped him and finally put him out of his misery that was number nine there.

At least Barnes would be the beneficiary of some benefits coming his way: -option to be buried in Arlington. -free headstone paid for by Uncle Sam. -Monetary death benefits to any loved ones in the event that anyone was still on speaking terms with him. -the possibility of having something in his hometown area of Tennessee being named after him. Bob Barnes Bridge has a certain ring to it!

But the best thing about it was that the world was rid of him once and for all unless he somehow came back as a Poltergeist. That reminds me of the that movie from circa 1986 "House" where the Vietnam vet is haunted by his old comrade named Big Ben played by none other than Richard Moll of Night Court.

BO---I began a thread on Sandy and Sal. Check it out.

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pretty good uncle sam pay for buriel. i did not know this happen. the us military certain take care of its veteran. many armys just chuck away own KIA wherever they lay on battlefield. to this day, us military is still looking to bring MIA and KIA home. great military to do this! this is why i respect america.

i like the sound of this bob barnes bridge and the idea of barnes being spirit who haunt this place, pitt. maybe nerdlinger could take his bike up to bob barnes bridge and do a wheelie and then he wipe out because the ghost of barnes does not tolerate nerdlingers showing off on his bridge?

i think i have seen this film house but u give up on it haha. it have good actor in it - william katt. he is some good film.

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Actually, the US does not do that great a job of taking care of its veterans. Maybe a little. But if you look at the conditions of the slum-like VA hospitals that many wounded Vietnam vets had to endure upon their return it is a complete disgrace to say the least. Too cold, too hot. Rats. Lousy care. It is sad.

I think the govt only pays for the headstone. Which is perfect for the purpose of this thread! LOL.

If the spirit or living being of Barnes encountered the nerdlinger I know what he would say----"Nerdlinger, you are one simple and sorry sonofabitch! You f-word up on this bridge popping a wheelie and I guarantee you a way off this bridge. In a body bag!"

Yup, William Katt was in house.

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that is too bad to hear pitt. i thought things change in VA hospitals and get better?

hahahahaha thats right pitt! i dont think barnes would take any of that nerd's shit! "next time i catch you trying to drink whisky and smoke on your bike, im gonna court martial your nerdlinger ass"

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LMAO. It would have been a laugh riot having the nerdlinger in Platoon. He had an older green dirt bike that must have been bored out to the max. That thing would fly! It was called the road toad IIRC. He could move on it.

Barnes would have a field day with the nerdlinger and in turn the nerdlinger would not back down from him in any way shape or form. Probably if me and my old friends were in Platoon we would be riding our dirt bikes out in on jungle paths to scout for the enemy and goof off. I doubt we would survive more than a few hours at best.

O'Neill would see us and say "What do you think there, Bob, can some idiots like that survive over here?" Barnes would give a dreadful glare. "Uh-huh. That's what I thought, too. Sometimes I just look at some people and I know, there just ain't no f-ing way!"

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hahahahahhahah road toad!! more like harley davidson and the nerdlinger man. i can just imagine this nerd tear assing around area and scaring non-nerds. those nerds are always good at modifying transport, i see this in american movies, very smart these nerds, i bet he do something to give it extra kick.

i think you would survive in nam because if you can survive nerdlinger in the forest then that give you good chance. i think if nerdlinger was in nam then you and your buddy would have to frag his ass if you are to survive, he will give away your position. that is if barnes does not frag him first for standing up to him

hahahahhaha yes! o'neill might doubt you but he is coward. he is just thinking of himself! captain will tell you to hold in place and fight the nerdlinger.

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LOL. The really crazy thing some years ago I wanted to write a story about my friends and I as I have dabbled in writing a bit. I figured that it was too bland a setting just with 1980s Pennsylvania so I transfered things to 1969 LA and the premise of a surf rock band. I totally fictionalized myself and a few others to the point they were totally different characters. But the nerdlinger and engineer guy were the absolute same and anybody would absolutely laugh themselves to death at these two. I gave them the names of Drake Dallas (nerdlinger) and Fred McCorkle (engineer guy) which were plays on their actual names. The engineer guy actually was a pretty good drummer who was in bands.

They really leapt off the pages to say the least! Hard to believe that people like them actually existed. They were smart guys but really crazy as hell.

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i am not surprise to see you write story. you are good writer pitt and have talent for this. you have great vivid description of these peoples and what they do. very interesting to read. i feel like i have known this nerdlinger all my life just by your brief descriptions of him.

i also like this names drake and mccorkle, just like a movie or novel story, and setting in surfer 60s LA. i also think pennsyvania setting is good too, but i understand if you think this might be boring

try to finish this story if you can. these peoples you know are interesting characters. most of the best film we watch have characters in them who the writer usually base on various peoples they know in their lifes. so you are on right path. nerdlinger must be brought to life on page or film!

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Thanks for the nice compliments, BO. I do appreciate them. This was actualy my third novel after writing one about a young federal officer at Gettysburg and one about five teen friends hunting a rouge mountain lion in Colorado. I started it in May of 2008 and worked hard at it for several years then seemed to shelf it after hundreds of pages. It was a very different type of project to say the least. But I was able to incorporate a lot of historical events into it like the Vietnam War, the Manson Family Murders, the war protest, different famous people in music or entertainment, etc. I'm not sure what I would have wrote about in Pennsylvania in the 1980s. So much more to pick from in 1969 LA.

But yeah, the nerdlinger and engineer guy probably stole the show with their crazy antics. Those two were always at each other. Another crazy story I just thought of was the time circa 1985 when me and the nerdlinger were at some old mine building on our dirt bikes and we challenged each other to a race back to his house several miles away. We took off and really had those machines screaming as we made our way over some mountain back roads. As we were nearing the big hill above where he lived I got caught in a gravel wash on a curve and had no choice but to ride it out into an embankement. I was pizzed I lost and figured he would be bragging about beating me. I pick up my bike and ride down the hill about 20 yards and he was laying in a cornfield with his bike overturned. We both got taken out that day. LOL.

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For some of those who survived---

O'Neill - Bunch of fucking faggots, they all left me

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LOL. That is a good one for O'Neill. I was having trouble finding one for him. Well played!

Maybe-- I had a bad feeling on this one!

O'Neill was nuts!

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Thanks, great thread. I'll try to include some others!

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