The guy who taught me to shoot rifle competition is a retired Marine Master Sergeant.
A fairy tale, he says, starts out "once upon a time...".
A Marine sea story starts out, "this is no shit, now..."
https://jarheadtop.com is his site. My name appears on it once.
He published a book of his sea stories.
Tom
You reminded me of this - the world's shortest fairy tale.......
Once upon a time a guy asked a girl "Will you marry me?".
The girl said "NO", and the guy lived happily ever after and went fishing, hunting and played gold a lot and drank beer and farted whenever he wanted.
Sorry darling … I was listening honest … I just keep losing my thread.....
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