From CNN.com:
Please please please someone find a soundbyte of this and make a song with it!!!
Oh, brother.
If ever there was a statement that begged for the rolleyes, this surely is one of them.
:rolleyes:
Judging from the speaker’s rank,he’s probably from the generation that used “I’ve got the hammer” or “put the hammer down”,postions of power and the exercizing of such positions.
As such an individual,I doubt he sees any connection to rap,or barely knows what that is.
I thought the “put the hammer down” was an Artilery phrase.
He’s Navy… not Army.
Isn’t Hammer Time an '80s thing? Great Googly Moogly!
Come on people, that was obviously a reference to:
If I had a hammer
I’d hammer in the morning…
Wasn’t the hammer dropped in Days of Thunder?
Hehehe.
Oh man, that’s so great.
I’m imagining the admiral wearing his dress whites and hammer pants now. Thanks a lot!
Ah yes, we had lots of terrific sayings when I was on the Connie. The cold war was still a going concern when I was on it and skipper Denny Brook’s favorite phrase was “commie sons o’ bitches.” It’s such an anachonism now… jus tlike an M.C. Hammer reference is. Hmm. We had a slogan contest for pride in our ship. The winner was “The Connie is my gal” but informal polls showed a close favorite was “clean the bitch up.”
Well, even if you’re too old or too white (I’m both!) to know much about rap, the expression “hammer time” has gotten pretty widespread. As a football fan, I’ve often heard linebackers and defensive ends yelling “hammer time,” as a way of saying “We’re gonna get physical, we’re gonna lay a big hurt on you.”
Now, those players are generally young black men, so THEY may well have gotten the expression from MC Hammer’s “Can’t Touch This,” but a middle-aged military officer who’s never listened to rap may have picked it up from watching football.
I think Admiral Keating’s rap credentials were confirmed a couple of hours later when he made the comment:
So GWB is the Daddy Mac and Colin Powell is the Mac Daddy?
The idea was to blind your opponents with luxury!From Groundskeeper Willy’s The Art of War in a Dress
oookaaay… white middle-aged boss-guy tries to sound hip, but his quote is (a) 15 years old and (b) from MC Hammer.
Sounds typical enough.
Oh, and the officer’s white tunic with Hammer Pants would be an astounding style move. Bring back the two-cornered hat for good measure, and folks will be surrendering just from watching your officers walk in the room, with a posse of Flag Lieutenants shouting that you’re 2 legit 2 quit.
In tomorrow’s news, the Admiral celebrates GWB completing his father’s victory over Iraq with the pronouncement, “BABY GOT BACK!”
Hmmm, didn’t see that JRDelirious already used the too legit joke. Dagummit.