Tear that thing up When I was in basic training, our NCO always started the instructions for the days classes with a joke, usually a story about one of the other NCOs....one morning, he said, "Men, your Sargent Cooper over there, he went on leave to town last Friday...saw this FINE lookin' snake a-sashayin' along....as she passed, he says, 'I could tear that thing up!' " She stops and says, "What'd you say, soldier?" "Uh, nothin', ma'am, I didn't say a thing!" "Oh, I heard you, you said you could tear that thing up...well, come along to my place and prove it!" So, Cooper is soon in the saddle, just a-workin' that thing for all he's worth, and the gal reaches over on the nightstand and picks up one o' them stir-sticks like you get with coffee? She starts tappin' Cooper on the ass with it, and it gets to him, so he says, "Woman, what th' hell you doin'?" She says, "Sarge, if you're tearing that thing up, I is beatin' yo ass to death with this here stick...." 8/25/2005 07:07:00 AM