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''Skippy's List'' proves that [[The Loonie]] can be applied to the military as well as [[Tabletop Games]]. The list consists of things that Skippy--an enlisted man in the US Army's psychological operations department[[hottip:*:Read: Drawing propaganda posters in [[The Yugoslav Wars|postwar Bosnia]]--discovered were forbidden in the US Army, generally [[Noodle Incident|without much context]] as to how he found out (although the blog does provide some explanations). It first came to the Internet back in 2001, lists 213 things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do In The [[Yanks With Tanks|US Army]]. [[Not Making This Up Disclaimer|As the site explains, everything on the list actually happened]], either as something [[Truth in Television|Skippy himself did]], [[Or So
The original list [http://skippyslist.com/list/ can be seen here.] The site also includes other sections with other, smaller lists submitted by "Friends of Skippy".
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=== Provides Examples Of: ===
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:
{{quote| 106. I may not trade my rifle for any of the following: Cigarettes, booze, sexual favors, Kalishnikovs, Soviet Armored vehicles, small children, or bootleg CD's.}}
* [[Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving]]: He actually got ''commended'' for some of these, specifically:
{{quote| 154. Shouldn't treat "piss-bottles" with extra-strength icy hot.}}
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]:
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{{quote| 113. There is absolutely no need to emulate the people from ''[[The Full Monty|Full Monty]]'' every time I hear the song "Hot Stuff".<br />
131. No dancing in the turret. This especially applies in conjunction with rule #113. }}
* [[Buffy
{{quote| 177. I am not to refer to a formation as "the boxy rectangle thingie".}}
* [[Calvin Ball]]:
{{quote| 142. "Calvin-Ball" is not authorized PT.}}
* [[Cheese
{{quote| 20. Must not taunt the French any more.}}
* [[Combining Mecha]]:
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* [[Dirty Communists]]:
{{quote| 11. Not allowed to join the Communist Party.}}
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: [[In Universe]]
{{quote| 93. Nerve gas is not funny.}}
* [[Duel to The Death]]:
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* [[Not Making This Up Disclaimer]]:
{{quote| 174. Furby® is not allowed into classified areas. (I swear to the gods, I did not make that up, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furby#Classic_Furbies it's actually DOD policy.])}}
* [[Or So
{{quote| 207. The Chicken and Rice MRE is *not* a personal lubricant. (Skippy wanted this noted for the record that this is not something he has ever attempted or considered! It was something we heard at dinner on 22 September 2001 and it was just so obscene it had to go here.)<br />
209. An airsickness bag is to be used for airsickness *only*. (Also not a Skippy-ism...this was the same dinner.) }}
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{{quote| 151. The proper way to report to my Commander is "Specialist Schwarz, reporting as ordered, Sir" not "You can't prove a thing!"}}
* [[Take Over the World]]:
{{quote| 203. "To conquer the earth with [[
* [[Take That]]:
{{quote| 8. Not allowed to add pictures of officers I don’t like to War Criminal posters.}}
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