Fwd: Re: IVIV (1) Bigfoot Bjornsen

[malignd at aol.com]

Don't know if this reached the list; I was tossed off (as the list has 
a tendency to do to AOL subscriibers).

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Hartman was played by Lee Ermey, who had been, I think, a drill
instructor at Quantico or Parris Island or wherever.

I saw him once on a TV news show, shortly after FMJ, and he was being
interviewed, at least as I remember, by Maria Shriver.  She asked him
about the abusive language and he told her that that was what it was
like.  Then she said, more or less, could you show me?  And he said
something like, the sort of things we'd say?  And she said, yes.

Ermey took a second, then jumped up in Maria's face and shouted, "YOU
LITTLE SCUMBAG!"

And I thought, wow, this guy just called Maria Shriver a scumbag on
national TV.

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, Aug 30, 2009 8:16 pm
Subject: IVIV (1) Bigfoot Bjornsen

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
)20Sir, 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.