# What on earth is the deal with this guy's face in the film "Full Metal Jacket?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 14, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-the-deal-with-this-guys-face-in-the-film-full-metal-jacket/456461 "2008-07-14T17:23:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-the-deal-with-this-guys-face-in-the-film-full-metal-jacket/456461/21 "2018-04-25T20:38:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Well, just about time to wrap this up… Sorry for resurrecting a zombie post. I just thought I could contribute, but did not look at the OP post date. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-the-deal-with-this-guys-face-in-the-film-full-metal-jacket/456461/22 "2018-04-25T20:58:15Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > Sorry for resurrecting a zombie post. I just thought I could contribute, but did not look at the OP post date. You weren’t the one who resurrected it; it was the guy making his first (and likely only) SDMB post who did. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-the-deal-with-this-guys-face-in-the-film-full-metal-jacket/456461/23 "2018-04-26T01:22:26Z")
* * * [QUOTE=Argent Towers;10001067… I created an image - [here] ([About the Oncourse retirement](https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/akentisa/Filemanager_Public_Files/fmj.jpg)) - where you can see the guy. … [/QUOTE] Linky no worky. [Me try long time.] ETA: …It’s a fucking zombie! How come nobody made an instant Braaains joke! I’m gonna bring this up in ATMB! ETA2 Plus **Chefguy** said it didn’t work… But before I read a thread I went to do due diligence. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-the-deal-with-this-guys-face-in-the-film-full-metal-jacket/456461/24 "2018-04-26T03:48:11Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > Sorry for resurrecting a zombie post. I just thought I could contribute, but did not look at the OP post date. No apology necessary. I was making a pun. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-the-deal-with-this-guys-face-in-the-film-full-metal-jacket/456461/25 "2018-04-26T17:08:42Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > ETA: …It’s a fucking zombie! How come nobody made an instant Braaains joke! I’m gonna bring this up in ATMB! **TruCelt** did it twice, but very politely. Which explains why it didn’t work. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-the-deal-with-this-guys-face-in-the-film-full-metal-jacket/456461/26 "2018-04-26T18:01:11Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > **TruCelt** did it twice, but very politely. Which explains why it didn’t work. :mad: I also gave you lot a working clip. Sheesh! Of course the Zombie poster won’t come back; he’d only starve to death. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-the-deal-with-this-guys-face-in-the-film-full-metal-jacket/456461/27 "2018-04-26T18:37:44Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > * * * > > Linky no worky. [Me try long time.] > > ETA: …It’s a fucking zombie! How come nobody made an instant Braaains joke! I’m gonna bring this up in ATMB! > > ETA2 Plus **Chefguy** said it didn’t work… > > But before I read a thread I went to do due diligence. [underline added] > > > [@gnoitall](#): > > > > **TruCelt** did it twice, but very politely. Which explains why it didn’t work. :mad: > > > > > [@TruCelt](#): > > > > > > I also gave you lot a working clip. Sheesh! Of course the Zombie poster won’t come back; he’d only starve to death. > > > > > > 😉 Yeah, but this: You start a thread, whether checking date or not. You’re a responsible SD GQ guy (sometimes), and you check OP info first to see his necessary info. The link died twice; so, both for me and the benefit of my brethren, I immediately went and scanned to see if a cx to a cite was posted, and skipped all the other verbiage, thinking (not really, but anyway): if any posters subsequent to OP had not checked the cite–which, BTW, was a courtesy to OP, since he said he went to the effort to create it–all these other posters would benefit from a proper cite, and moreover \* cackling contempt \* they, sorry bastards, were revealing themselves as totally unprepared for class. [As I have been, proudly citing in post #56 something in OP:smack::).) And just think, pearls before swine (according to some–present company excepted) all I had missed was Braaiiiins! Tis a problem. But I sheesh you back. Now all somebody’s gotta do is revive that cite/URL, and it’s Night of the Living Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-the-deal-with-this-guys-face-in-the-film-full-metal-jacket/456461/28 "2018-04-26T18:43:32Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > * * * > > Linky no worky. [Me try long time.] > > ETA: …It’s a fucking zombie! How come nobody made an instant Braaains joke! I’m gonna bring this up in ATMB! > > ETA2 Plus **Chefguy** said it didn’t work… > > But before I read a thread I went to do due diligence. [underline added] > > > [@gnoitall](#): > > > > **TruCelt** did it twice, but very politely. Which explains why it didn’t work. :mad: > > > > > [@TruCelt](#): > > > > > > I also gave you lot a working clip. Sheesh! Of course the Zombie poster won’t come back; he’d only starve to death. > > > > > > 😉 Yeah, but this: You start a thread, whether checking date or not. You’re a responsible SD GQ guy (sometimes), and you check OP info first to see his necessary info. The link died twice; so, both for me and the benefit of my brethren, I immediately went and scanned to see if a cx to a cite was posted, and skipped all the other verbiage, thinking (not really, but anyway): if any posters subsequent to OP had not checked the cite–which, BTW, was a courtesy to OP, since he said he went to the effort to create it–all these other posters would benefit from a proper cite, and moreover \* cackling contempt \* they, sorry bastards, were revealing themselves as totally unprepared for class. [As I have been, proudly citing in post #56 something in OP:smack::).) Plus I got to make a Saigon-hooker reference to the movie. And just think, pearls before swine (according to some–present company excepted) all I had missed was Braaiiiins! Tis a problem. But I sheesh you back. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-the-deal-with-this-guys-face-in-the-film-full-metal-jacket/456461/29 "2018-04-26T19:03:18Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > You weren’t the one who resurrected it; it was the guy making his first (and likely only) SDMB post who did. Somebody find this guy, make him pay for my pain and suffering under the hissing and clicking I’ve just had to endure. ETA: I now see you all got me so _farblondjet_ I posted twice with my second post the wrong one off by a sentence. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-the-deal-with-this-guys-face-in-the-film-full-metal-jacket/456461/30 "2018-04-26T21:05:49Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Somebody find this guy, make him pay for my pain and suffering under the hissing and clicking I’ve just had to endure. > > ETA: I now see you all got me so _farblondjet_ I posted twice with my second post the wrong one off by a sentence. At least you didn’t suffer the humiliation of being double ninja’d between double posts. I’m still scratching my head about that one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-the-deal-with-this-guys-face-in-the-film-full-metal-jacket/456461.md?page=1)