/me listens to first rant... oh, HELLYEAH! I gotta post that...
I really liked Alan Alda's Hawkeye Pierce... but the one I actually went to the trouble to collect stuff about - not the actor, but the real guy - was Pappy Boyington, after seeing Black Sheep Squadron. The show was more action-adventure than M*A*S*H, which appealed to me as a young lad, and I ended up getting the book (Baa Baa Black Sheep), reading it, and then getting it signed by Boyington at an airshow outside Nashville in 1976. My favorite picture of my dad is of him standing in front of a Corsair not dissimilar to the one Boyington flew in the South Pacific...
'course, that's the old school stuff; later, I really liked John Sheridan from Babylon 5. His dad-in-the-show had a saying that really stuck with me:
"Never start a fight, but always finish it."
But, yeah. Definitely see what you see in Ms. Sugarbaker. Kick ass and take names, and still polite about it. Like many other fine Southern women I know. :)
You know, I thought of trying to answer the prompt properly, with all sorts of southern pride and talk about having a backbone and class at the same time and how she could be eloquent both in and out of a temper... but then i remembered that LJ is the place for rants, so I could let Youtube do the talking for me. :D
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I really liked Alan Alda's Hawkeye Pierce... but the one I actually went to the trouble to collect stuff about - not the actor, but the real guy - was Pappy Boyington, after seeing Black Sheep Squadron. The show was more action-adventure than M*A*S*H, which appealed to me as a young lad, and I ended up getting the book (Baa Baa Black Sheep), reading it, and then getting it signed by Boyington at an airshow outside Nashville in 1976. My favorite picture of my dad is of him standing in front of a Corsair not dissimilar to the one Boyington flew in the South Pacific...
'course, that's the old school stuff; later, I really liked John Sheridan from Babylon 5. His dad-in-the-show had a saying that really stuck with me:
"Never start a fight, but always finish it."
But, yeah. Definitely see what you see in Ms. Sugarbaker. Kick ass and take names, and still polite about it. Like many other fine Southern women I know. :)
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but then i remembered that LJ is the place for rants, so I could let Youtube do the talking for me. :D
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Seasons 1-3 are out on DVD now. Best gift I ever bought myself, short of a guitar.
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Not quite as good as The Golden Girls, perhaps, but nonetheless, quite good...! ;)
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