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I just don't see a Marine using the term "wakie." Well, maybe if he left his blankie at home..."(X number of days) and a wakie"
Cultural jargon. I like "wakie".I just don't see a Marine using the term "wakie." Well, maybe if he left his blankie at home...
Lol! I've worked with plenty of Marines and I have no problem imagining any one of them saying it!I just don't see a Marine using the term "wakie." Well, maybe if he left his blankie at home...
Ha ha....nice.I first heard it in the Army as well.
I remember being posted overseas and it was always "(X number of days) and a wakie". That was until you were really close to returning home. Then you were a "short-timer". There were lots of ways to express how "short" you were. My favorite?
"I'm so short I could skydive off the edge of a dime."
Ron
Ha ha....nice.
As the date got closer we used to say "I'm a double-digit (or single-digit) midget", or things like "five days and a bowl of wheaties".
Agreed! But I find I can't tell anymore...and my doctor looks scarily young.105 sleeps to my next Camino can't wait to be a single digit midget! But I am glad I still have training time.
Sorry, completely off topic but @ CaminoDebrita you do not look old enough to be retiring!!!
I believe you are correct. Different origins, but similar meanings. Same same, but different.I think that there is no connection between so many sleeps and so many days and a wake up, one is for children and as been around since I was a kid when we had no knowledge of American military jargon. They have two completely different origins IMO.
Griffin: must be all that clean living!105 sleeps to my next Camino can't wait to be a single digit midget! But I am glad I still have training time.
Sorry, completely off topic but @ CaminoDebrita you do not look old enough to be retiring!!!
Someone needs a nap.I find it extremely irritating. Fine when used by a child under 10 but adults using it makes them sound infantile. What are you, a kid? Say (number of) days, not sleeps, for Gawd's sake, people. Besides, if you're an insomniac, "sleeps" and "days" may not necessarily coincide so accuracy demands the latter and not the former.
There is a town in Wyoming called "Ten Sleep". It is ten nights on the trail between Native American Summer and Winter camps.I noticed it's use online (i.e. - facebook) several years ago. I thought it was somehow related to Native American culture. Most of the time when I see it, it refers to something exciting happening in an approx. 10-20 days time period.