Annapolis/Westpoint Creative Profanity Memorization?

[GreyGhost]

I was on the Jeff Cooper's Commentaries page, reading
"Vol. 6, No. 12" When I struck upon this...

<http://www.cybersurf.co.uk/JeffCooper/jeff6_12.html>

"When I was a lad, cadets at the military academy and midshipmen at
Annapolis were required to memorize a speech made in Congress by a
gentleman from Arkansas (what else?) in which he was taking offense at
the idea of changing the pronunciation of his state. This declamation
starts out, "Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker! May God damn your paltry soul to
hell!..." And it continues for a page and a half using what must be
considered a masterly command of objurgation. The gentleman does not use
the same word twice. If you wish to use obscenity well, note his
example. "

I would very much like to know where I can aquire a copy of this speech,
or atleast more information as to the man who gave it, the date, and so
forth, if any of you have such information, in that I may look it up for
myself. I am posted on the alt.war.* groups as I figure there may be a
gradute here who remembers the homework.

GreyGhost

[Charles Revie]

Never had to memorize the "Arkansas Poop" as it was called, but I
believe the first lines are more akin to this "Mr Speaker! Mr Speaker!
You walleyed son of a bitch...."

Anyway having heard it once, it is definitely a lexicon of good Anglo
Saxon verbage, and the result is certainly ROTFL because of the rich
diversity.

Charlie
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[Joe Schlatter]

Try this URL:

http://www.urbanlegends.com/books/legman/arkansas_pronunciation.html

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Charles Revie wrote in message <366968...@zianet.com>...

[William Langston]

Thanks Joe, I really enjoyed that read.

Bill Langston, from S.W. ARKansaw

P.S. also thanks GreyGhost (I think) for the URL for Jeff Cooper.

Joe Schlatter wrote in message ...

[james.m.s...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, December 5, 1998 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, GreyGhost wrote:
> I was on the Jeff Cooper's Commentaries page, reading
> "Vol. 6, No. 12" When I struck upon this...
>
> <http://www.cybersurf.co.uk/JeffCooper/jeff6_12.html>
>
>
> "When I was a lad, cadets at the military academy and midshipmen at
> Annapolis were required to memorize a speech made in Congress by a
> gentleman from Arkansas (what else?) in which he was taking offense at
> the idea of changing the pronunciation of his state. This declamation
> starts out, "Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker! May God damn your paltry soul to
> hell!..." And it continues for a page and a half using what must be
> considered a masterly command of objurgation. The gentleman does not use
> the same word twice. If you wish to use obscenity well, note his
> example. "
>
> I would very much like to know where I can aquire a copy of this speech,
> or atleast more information as to the man who gave it, the date, and so
> forth, if any of you have such information, in that I may look it up for
> myself. I am posted on the alt.war.* groups as I figure there may be a
> gradute here who remembers the homework.
>
> GreyGhost

See if this is what you are looking for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h74CSKY71dg

[Bill Vollmer]

I actually had to memorize the West Point version of it back in the summer of 1978 while a Plebe and can remember almost all of it as my poor wife can attest to. I’ll have to transcriber it someday.

Bill Vollmer
West Point Class of 1982