Post Your Funnies, Any Funnies. I need to laugh!

[Dave Petersen]

 

[Bad Bob]

 

[John Webb]

Kit not available at Ikea !

Sandra McCoy
October 8
Not everyone knows what J.E.E.P. Stood for back then. That’s how it got it’s Name today.
Just. Enough.Essential.Parts.

 

[Uncle-A]

Kit not available at Ikea !

Sandra McCoy
October 8
Not everyone knows what J.E.E.P. Stood for back then. That’s how it got it’s Name today.
Just. Enough.Essential.Parts.

Yes, you could buy army surplus Jeeps like that in a box after WW II not sure if any are still available today.

 

[Jacob]

Kit not available at Ikea !

Sandra McCoy
October 8
Not everyone knows what J.E.E.P. Stood for back then. That’s how it got it’s Name today.
Just. Enough.Essential.Parts.

Nooooo!!!!! Don't open the box! Toys lose their value once you've opened the box.

 

[Long Hair Hippy]

Not everyone knows what J.E.E.P. Stood for back then. That’s how it got it’s Name today.
Just. Enough.Essential.Parts.

Now it means Just Empty Every Pocket

 

[Pat AKA mustski]

 

[Varmintmist]

From "Funny Times", I didn't see a copyright indication, but who knows?

A man is dining in a fancy restaurant and there's a gorgeous redhead sitting at the next table whom he's been checking out ever since he sat down, but he lacks the nerve to talk with her. Suddenly she sneezes, and surprisingly a glass eye comes flying out of her head toward the man, who reflexively reaches out, grabs it, and hands it back to her.

"Oh my! I'm so sorry!", the woman says as she pops her eye back in place. "Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you." So they enjoy a wonderful dinner together, and afterwards they go to the theater followed by drinks. They talk, they laugh, she shares her deepest dreams and he shares his; and after paying for everything she asks him if he would like to come to her place for a nightcap - and stay for breakfast.

Well, the next morning she cooks him a gourmet meal with all the trimmings and after enjoying a perfect latte he says, "you know, seriously, you are the perfect woman, are you this nice to every guy you meet?"

"Of course not," she replies. "But you just happened to catch my eye."

Sheep, drum, snake go over a cliff


Baa
Dum
Hiss

 

[Varmintmist]

Kit not available at Ikea !

Sandra McCoy
October 8
Not everyone knows what J.E.E.P. Stood for back then. That’s how it got it’s Name today.
Just. Enough.Essential.Parts.

From G.P. As in General Purpose. Originally the BRC, Bantam Reconnaissance Car.
https://www.visitbutlercounty.com/the-birthplace-the-jeep

 

[dbostedo]

From G.P. As in General Purpose.

That's also disputed. Per Wikipedia:

Many explanations of the origin of the word jeep have proven difficult to verify. The most widely held theory is that the military designation GP (for Government Purposes or General Purpose) was slurred into the word Jeep in the same way that the contemporary HMMWV (for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle) has become known as the Humvee. Joe Frazer, Willys-Overland President from 1939 to 1944, claimed to have coined the word jeep by slurring the initials G.P.[35] There are no contemporaneous uses of "GP" before later attempts to create a "backronym."

A more detailed view, popularized by R. Lee Ermey on his television series Mail Call, disputes this "slurred GP" origin, saying that the vehicle was designed for specific duties, and was never referred to as "General Purpose" and it is highly unlikely that the average jeep-driving GI would have been familiar with this designation. The Ford GPW abbreviation actually meant G for government use, P to designate its 80-inch (2,000 mm) wheelbase and W to indicate its Willys-Overland designed engine. Ermey suggests that soldiers at the time were so impressed with the new vehicles that they informally named it after Eugene the Jeep, a character in the Thimble Theatre comic strip and cartoons created by E. C. Segar, as early as mid-March 1936. Eugene the Jeep was Popeye's "jungle pet" and was "small, able to move between dimensions and could solve seemingly impossible problems."[36][37]

The word "jeep" however, was used as early as World War I, as US Army slang for new uninitiated recruits, or by mechanics to refer to new unproven vehicles.[10][11] In 1937, tractors which were supplied by Minneapolis Moline to the US Army were called jeeps. A precursor of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was also referred to as the jeep.[35]

Words of the Fighting Forces by Clinton A. Sanders, a dictionary of military slang, published in 1942, in the library at The Pentagon gives this definition:

Jeep: A four-wheel drive vehicle of one-half- to one-and-one-half-ton capacity for reconnaissance or other army duty. A term applied to the bantam-cars, and occasionally to other motor vehicles (U.S.A.) in the Air Corps, the Link Trainer; in the armored forces, the ½-ton command vehicle. Also referred to as "any small plane, helicopter, or gadget."
This definition is supported by the use of the term "jeep carrier" to refer to the Navy's small escort carriers.

Early in 1941, Willys-Overland demonstrated the vehicle's off-road capability by having it drive up the steps of the United States Capitol, driven by Willys test driver Irving "Red" Hausmann, who had recently heard soldiers at Fort Holabird calling it a "jeep." When asked by syndicated columnist Katharine Hillyer for the Washington Daily News (or by a bystander, according to another account) what it was called, Hausmann answered, "It's a jeep."

Katharine Hillyer's article was published nationally on February 19, 1941, and included a picture of the vehicle with the caption:

LAWMAKERS TAKE A RIDE- With Senator Meade, of New York, at the wheel, and Representative Thomas, of New Jersey, sitting beside him, one of the Army's new scout cars, known as "jeeps" or "quads", climbs up the Capitol steps in a demonstration yesterday. Soldiers in the rear seat for gunners were unperturbed.
Although the term was also military slang for vehicles that were untried or untested, this exposure caused all other jeep references to fade, leaving the 4x4 with the name.

 

[Dave Petersen]

 

[Andy Mink]

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Too late. Every year, too late.

 

[Dave Petersen]

 

[Dave Petersen]

 

[Uncle-A]

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So true, about a year ago I stopped doing that and hope that I can keep it up through the next election.

 

[Dave Petersen]

 

[slowrider]

 

[Uncle-A]

 

[Josh Matta]

If your local I can supply the Gander. He is exceptionally angry when cornered and will for sure intimidate you.

 

[Dave Petersen]