# 필승! 3 cheers for the RoK Army

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 26, 2009, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-cheers-for-the-rok-army/504310 "2009-07-26T08:49:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-cheers-for-the-rok-army/504310/41 "2009-07-27T16:43:55Z")

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“Ham faked”? Is that pretend _treyf_?

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-cheers-for-the-rok-army/504310/42 "2009-07-27T22:22:58Z")

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> [@Alessan](#):
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> Wow. And we always thought the \*Americans \*were crazy, what with all their saluting and calling their officers “sir”.

I recall a bit from one of Larry Gonick’s paperback ethnic joke books from the 1970s, a set of “General Orders to the Front” in the Israeli army. Don’t recall the whole list, but it included “Do not twiddle your commanding officer’s buttons while receiving orders,” and “Please refrain from giving advice to the Commander in Chief.”

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-cheers-for-the-rok-army/504310/43 "2009-07-27T22:50:59Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> I recall a bit from one of Larry Gonick’s paperback ethnic joke books from the 1970s, a set of “General Orders to the Front” in the Israeli army. Don’t recall the whole list, but it included “Do not twiddle your commanding officer’s buttons while receiving orders,” and “Please refrain from giving advice to the Commander in Chief.”

Correction: Not [Larry Gonick,](http://www.larrygonick.com/) Larry Wilde; author of [_The Official Jewish-Irish Joke Book._](http://openlibrary.org/b/OL12087135M/Official-Jewish-Irish-Joke-Book)

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