Dumbest Marine Corps renaming of common objects

DS1

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Mon May-23-05 08:00 AM
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Poll question: Dumbest Marine Corps renaming of common objects

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benburch

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Mon May-23-05 08:03 AM
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1. MARINE

Edited on Mon May-23-05 08:05 AM by benburch

My
Ass
Rides
In
Navy
Equipment

Damn, I remember when I thought a young man entering the Marine Corps was a GOOD thing.

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 08:04 AM
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2. Uncle Sam's Misguided Children

:evilgrin:

( me too )

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ClintonTyree

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Mon May-23-05 08:05 AM
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3. They're all ridculous....

why they feel the need to re-name everything into more macho-bullshit jargon is beyond me. :shrug: Little peckers?

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 08:10 AM
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6. I think it starts out as a discipline 'rebuild you in our image' thing

Gotta reprogram starting with the little things maybe, some people never fully manage to unprogram themselves, others they never manage to fully program :D

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BlondieK143

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Mon May-23-05 08:05 AM
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4. I'll never forget the jumping jacks thing.

I visited my friend on base a few months ago and we ran into a group of his buddies in their workout gear. One of them started giving us a rundown of his workout routine and when he mentioned side straddle hops, I thought he was talking about a new sex position or something. You can imagine the look I had on my face. :shrug:

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 08:08 AM
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5. This is a picture of me during my first week of bootcamp

:wtf:

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BlondieK143

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Mon May-23-05 08:10 AM
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7. LOL!

Now I realize why you're such an ass. :P

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 08:11 AM
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8. My ass is a lethally trained death machine from the sea

Or something

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BlondieK143

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Mon May-23-05 08:12 AM
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9. Riiiight.

It's just to bad you're a big softie underneath it all.

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 08:12 AM
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10. No, I'm just talking about my ass

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BlondieK143

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Mon May-23-05 08:13 AM
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11. Gross.

And on that note...

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 08:17 AM
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12. It's B flat, in case you were wondering

:bounce:

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Left_Winger

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Mon May-23-05 08:22 AM
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13. USMC = yoU Suckers Miss Christmas

That what we used to say when I was in.

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 08:25 AM
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15. U Signed the Motherfuckin' Contract

was always popular, especially during Marine Custodial Training

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Left_Winger

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Mon May-23-05 08:32 AM
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19. Good One!

Another one from my time was:
Uncle Sam's Marijuana Club

Yep, there were quite a few stoners around in my era, even in the Corps.

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 08:34 AM
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21. There weren't that many burners when I was in

I didn't even try it until I'd been out for 3-4 years, just never had the desire. There were too many piss-tests to really smoke up and enjoy it.

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bertha katzenengel

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Mon May-23-05 08:24 AM
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14. Are you serious?

Reminds me of "Full Metal Jacket:" "This is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for fighting, this is for fun...."

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 08:25 AM
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16. Dead serious

:shrug:

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bertha katzenengel

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Mon May-23-05 08:28 AM
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18. Hmm.

I often regret that I didn't know the military could've been a choice for me -- but then, I regret that I didn't know a lot of the things I could've done.

Was being in the military a good or bad experience for you?

(actually I think they wouldn't have taken me, I had heart surgery as an infant)

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 08:33 AM
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20. It's a mix

There was a ton of bullshit about a mile high to deal with, but it did deeply engrain a conviction to fight for what I believe is right. :shrug:

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Left_Winger

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Mon May-23-05 08:51 AM
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27. A mix for me too

I had scarlet fever as a child... flat feet... I sleepwalk occasionally (which is something which will have an impact on one's ability to pass the entry physical)... I'm mostly color blind (can still make out the difference between red and green, but that's it)... and they still took me.

There are things I'm grateful for, namely being better able to put up with petty crapola, and such, but NEVER EVER wake me by turning on the lights in the dark; it's been over thirty years but this still messes with me.

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ET Awful

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Mon May-23-05 08:27 AM
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17. I don't know if Marines had it, but one of my favorites in the Army was

ready position for push-ups = Front Leaning Rest Position

:)

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 08:36 AM
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22. Oh yeah, I used to wonder who was supposed to be resting

Same with log drills. When it's just over your shoulder, you're resting :crazy:

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AllegroRondo

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Mon May-23-05 08:36 AM
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23. US ARMY

Uncle Sam Aint Released Me Yet

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johnnie

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Mon May-23-05 08:41 AM
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24. I never heard any of those

My father must have decided they were dumb also because he never said any of them. He retired a few years ago. He was "discharged" in 1980 or so and officially retired after 40 something years.
I had enough of the Marines when I was young, and I never even joined up...lol.

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MindPilot

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Mon May-23-05 08:41 AM
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25. Drinking fountain = scuttlebutt

That was a navy term, but many of those are cross-overs. And scuttlebutt means gossip. Go figger.

NAVY -- Never Again Volunteer Yourself.

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 08:45 AM
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26. That's the one I couldn't remember

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mcscajun

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Mon May-23-05 08:58 AM
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28. Origin of Scuttle butt is old, old, OLD navy. And not that silly store.

Edited on Mon May-23-05 08:59 AM by mcscajun

:)

I'm sure you know it, so this is for the many who don't. I'm a landlubber, but over the winter I was immersed in readings about the 19th century British navy, and picked up a few things:

(Sailing ships')"...drinking water was carried in water casks of about 126 gallons capacity, known as butts. Since water is a precious commodity on long voyages, the master would often have a butt lashed to a convenient location on deck. There he could keep a watchful eye to insure that the water was being issued sparingly.

A scuttle is a small hatch or opening on deck. When a ship is scuttled, she has openings cut in her bottom to allow water to come in to fill her to her scuttles. This, of course, would sink her. When a butt is scuttled, it has a small hole cut in it to allow for a ladle to be used to distribute the water. The water cask lashed on deck was a scuttled butt, or more simply, a scuttlebutt.

As the sailors would gather around the scuttlebutt for their ration, they would talk much as our modern counterparts talk around the water cooler at the office. This idle chatter took on the name of the water cask itself, becoming known as scuttlebutt."

http://www.yacht-volant.org/SailorTalk/seaterms07.html

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MindPilot

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Mon May-23-05 09:15 AM
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32. interesting...thanks for posting that!!

n/t

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pnorman

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Mon May-23-05 09:13 AM
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31. "scuttle butt"

"From Scuttled (open) butt (cask); The term refers to an open barrel placed aboard British warships to supply sailors with drinking water. The scuttlebutt served as a focus of congregation for thirsty deckhands aboard ship, and was a common place for the exchange of rumors, gossip, etc"

I started going to sea (merchant seaman) right after WW 2. Incidentally, that was the LAST war that Congress had declared. "Bubblers" were provided in all public spaces, but we all referred to them as "scuttle butts". Likewise, with the term used to mean "rumors, gossip". Ashore, the term "office water-cooler", seems to have picked up the same connotation.

pnorman

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lpbk2713

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Mon May-23-05 09:06 AM
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29. Butt Kit

They probably don't have them now because they view smoking differently but when I was in the Navy (65 - 69) there was always a one-gallon vegetable can from the galley (often painted red with sand at the bottom) placed at different locations for extinguishing cigarettes.

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 09:08 AM
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30. They were there the last time I looked

in late '95

And 'the smoking lamp is lit' was still the phrase for smoke em if you got em

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Jeff In Milwaukee

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Mon May-23-05 09:53 AM
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33. Shovel = Entrenching Tool

Don't know if that's specifically a Marine term, though...

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 09:55 AM
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34. Don't think so re: service specific - E-Tool for short

Edited on Mon May-23-05 09:58 AM by DS1

I'm surprised IBM hasn't tried to take over the phrase.

Useless little shovels they are, all flattened out for storage which gives them hardly any ability to keep the crap you're trying to move on it until you're ready to dump it.

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laheina

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Mon May-23-05 10:22 AM
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35. Hey!

Edited on Mon May-23-05 10:23 AM by laheina

That was the one that I was gonna use. :P

I remember watching the early days of Iraq on CNN, and a mortified soldier was forced to demonstrate (using the shovel as a potty aid) for their embedded journalist.

The look on that guy's face.

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Ernesto

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Mon May-23-05 11:02 AM
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36. How bout NCO= "No Chance on Outside".....

SNCO= "Still No Chance on Outside"

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MrScorpio

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Mon May-23-05 11:15 AM
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37. You haven't seen anything until you've see 1000 drunken Marines go apeshit

Edited on Mon May-23-05 11:36 AM by MrScorpio

In the Phillpines

Surfing Jeepneys, live sex shows, drunken brawls

The first thing a nice looking pinay would ask me was if I were a marine. When I said no, I'm in the Air Force, it was on.

Aw, the good old days!

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Ernesto

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Mon May-23-05 11:25 AM
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39. Hmmmm maybe that is why..........

Edited on Mon May-23-05 11:26 AM by Ernesto

The Air Force Military Police wouldn't let us Marines step one foot on their AF base @ Danang.

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miss_kitty

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Mon May-23-05 11:15 AM
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38. So when you signed up, did they court you?

My nephew will be headed off to boot camp after he graduates in June. The recruiter has practically been dating him-special field trips with all the other little numb nuts he's roped in, to the shooting range, where they get to take turns firing his 'special' gun (:wtf:) as well as their own pieces, and some paintball activities. Marine picnics-shit-I don't know-he signed the papers, and this guy is still dragging him around on weekends...

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 11:27 AM
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40. numb nuts?

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miss_kitty

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Mon May-23-05 11:30 AM
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41. Sorry

:P-I meant 18 year old kids who had been massaged into signing a contract to give up the next 2-4 years of their lives, maybe their lives themselves, before they'd had much of a chance to do anything else...

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 11:39 AM
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42. Or have wanted to sign it since they were young

Not every kid that signs up does solely because the recruiters told them what they wanted to hear.

Anyway, the DEP is standard. We got driven to Quantico from New Jersey for a day-long mini-bootcamp session as a little taste of what we were in for.

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miss_kitty

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Mon May-23-05 11:53 AM
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43. Yeah I know

My nephew, I think, always wanted to be a Marine-or at least some kind of a fighting guy. There aren't any boot camps in WA state though-not that I know of. They are just doing fun shit. And his older sister went through boot camp in the Army, so I think at least the nephew has no illusions about that...I'm sure he expects it to be harder.
What is DEP?

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DS1

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Mon May-23-05 11:57 AM
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44. Delayed Entry Program

Where they get to exercise you a bit before you go in, bring your weight down if you're over the limit, give you some basic things to learn before you get there. I think if it weren't for the DEP, my heart would have exploded the second week there.

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miss_kitty

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Mon May-23-05 12:05 PM
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45. Well, my nephew is really enjoying it

he's very fit and athletic and very smart. I think he will do well in the service-even though it would be no choice for me or mine. I wish he could've found 'It' elsewhere-but this is his life, his choice. And I'm glad he isn't on smack or crank, or getting shitface drunk every weekend.

and hey-no matter what they say about you-you didn't turn out all THAT bad :P

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jswordy

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Mon May-23-05 12:09 PM
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46. Ten-HUT! Join the Young Marines! See this site...

http://www.chadduck.com/ymarines/

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