IVIV (1) Bigfoot Bjornsen

[Mark Kohut]

Little yellow son of a bear?...a bully as just a coward acting  out? (nah)

yes, BB does talk like insulting drill sargeant Hartman. 

--- On Sun, 8/30/09, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net>
> Subject: IVIV (1) Bigfoot Bjornsen
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 8:16 PM
> I'm not sure what to make of this
> name and the fact that Bjornsen has played "comical
> Mexicans" on the Tube.
> 
> http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Bjornsen-family-history.ashx
> Danish and Norwegian: patronymic from the personal name
> Bjørn (see Bjorn).
> 
> BJORN: Old Norse name derived from the word bjorn, meaning
> "bear." BJÖRN: ... derived from the old Scottish Gaelic
> personal name Bláán, meaning "little yellow one." ...
> www.20000-names.com/male_b_names_3.htm
> 
> The way Bigfoot talks, winding down these long speeches,
> brings to mind Joe Friday narrating an episode of Dragnet,
> but Bigfoot's rhetorical approach reminds me more of the
> drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket, Gunnery Sergeant
> Hartman.
> 
> http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Full-Metal-Jacket.html
> Master Gunnery Sergeant HARTMAN walks along the line of
> blank-faced recruits.
> HARTMAN I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your Senior Drill
> Instructor. From now on, you will speak only when spoken to,
> and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will
> be "Sir!" Do you maggots understand that?
>  RECRUITS (in unison) Sir, yes, sir!
>  HARTMAN Bullshit! I can't hear you. Sound off like you got
> a pair.
>  RECRUITS (louder) Sir, yes, sir!
>  HARTMAN 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 fucking beings! You are nothing but
> unorganized grabasstic pieces of amphibian shit! Because I
> am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the
> more you will learn. I am hard, but I am fair! There is no
> racial bigotry here! I do not look down on niggers, kikes,
> wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless! And my
> orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the
> gear to serve in my beloved Corps! Do you maggots understand
> that?
>  RECRUITS (in unison) Sir, yes, sir!
>  HARTMAN Bullshit! I can't hear you!
>  RECRUITS (louder) Sir, yes, sir! Sergeant
> HARTMAN stops in front of a black recruit, Private
> SNOWBALL.
>  HARTMAN What's your name, scumbag?
>  SNOWBALL (shouting) Sir, Private Brown, sir!
>  HARTMAN Bullshit! From now on you're Private Snowball! Do
> you like that name?
>  SNOWBALL (shouting) Sir, yes, sir!
>  HARTMAN Well, there's one thing that you won't like,
> Private Snowball! They don't serve fried chicken and
> watermelon on a daily basis in my mess hall!
>  SNOWBALL Sir, yes, sir!
>  JOKER (whispering) Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?
>  HARTMAN Who said that? Who the fuck said that? Who's the
> slimy little communist shit twinkle-toed cocksucker down
> here, who just signed his own death warrant? Nobody, huh?!
> The fairy fucking godmother said it! Out-fucking- standing!
> I will P.T. you all until you fucking die! I'll P.T. you
> until your assholes are sucking buttermilk.
>  Sergeant HARTMAN grabs cowboy by the shirt.
>  HARTMAN Was it you, you scroungy little fuck, huh?!
> & etc. etc.
> 
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