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Deceptichum to Today I [email protected]English • 4 months ago

TIL Dick Bong

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TIL Dick Bong

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Deceptichum to Today I [email protected]English • 4 months ago
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  • @[email protected]
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    5•4 months ago

    I’ve done something like this back in the day

  • @[email protected]
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    5•4 months ago

    He’s a tiny typo away from being dick ina bong

  • Zeppo
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    12•4 months ago

    America’s Ace of Aces. There’s a bridge connecting Superior, WI and Duluth, MN called the Bong Bridge.

    • @[email protected]
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      3•4 months ago

      dude probably bagged even more than he’s officially credited for too. the guy was a menace to the japanese.

    • @[email protected]
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      11•4 months ago

      Honestly, it’s a bit disappointing. Why not just go all the way and call it Dick Bong Bridge?

      • @[email protected]
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        4 months ago

        “We’ve erected a 3-kilometer-long tied-arch bridge so people can get into and out of the Superior bay area quicker and easier, and we’ll be dedicating it to World War II pilot Richard Bong.”

        “Okay, what are you calling it?”

        “Right now we’ve got ‘Dick Bong’s Long, Curvaceous Erection for the Repeated Entering and Exiting of a Wet Superior Inlet.’”

        “…We’ll workshop it.”

        • @[email protected]
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          2•4 months ago

          “Dick Bong’s Long & Strong” is my suggestion

      • @[email protected]
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        11•4 months ago

        https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/parks/richardbong

        Wisconsin has them beat. There’s a “Bong Recreation Area” in the South East part of the state.

        • @[email protected]
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          4•4 months ago

          I’ve camped there, it’s pretty nice!

          • @[email protected]
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            3•4 months ago

            Same.

          • @[email protected]
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            4•4 months ago

            Me too!

        • @[email protected]
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          1•4 months ago

          I think I’m gonna head on down to the Bong Recreation Area and take the Green Trail for a while if you know what I mean

          (I mean I’m going to take a scenic nature walk in one of Wisconsin’s beautiful state parks, what the hell did you think I meant?)

  • @[email protected]
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    7•4 months ago

    What if we kissed on the Dick Bong Neighborhood Terrace…? 😘

  • @[email protected]
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    26•4 months ago

    Ground Control to Major Bong

  • Gloomy
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    7•4 months ago

    I tryed to Google a picture of him, but… 😱

  • YonderEpochs
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    11•4 months ago

    With a name like that you are destined for weapons-grade mischief.

  • Captain Aggravated
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    8•4 months ago

    The United States Marine Corps once had a Staff Sergeant named Max Fightmaster.

    Also, there was a NASCAR driver of note named Dick Trickle, the only man in motorsports named for a symptom of enlarged prostate.

  • @[email protected]
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    TIL Dick Bong

    • M137
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      2•4 months ago

      Bong*

      • @[email protected]
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        1•4 months ago

        Sorry, I fixed it

  • @[email protected]
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    2•4 months ago

    I ran a tabletop game of Scum and Villainy and one of my players (our pilot) picked Dick Bong as his name both as an homage to this man and because it resulted in all the silliness that you’d expect when trying to refer to each other by character names.

  • I Cast Fist
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    32•4 months ago

    For looping the Golden Gate Bridge, flying at a low level down Market Street in San Francisco, and blowing the clothes off of an Oakland woman’s clothesline, Bong was reprimanded (…) General Kenney later wrote, “We needed kids like this lad.”

    Dick Bong, the loose cannon that Air Force couldn’t do without.

  • @[email protected]
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    12•4 months ago

    Second funniest name after this guy.

    • @[email protected]
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      Dr. Gay Hitler

      It’s like someone’s video game character

      1000024835

    • YonderEpochs
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      12•4 months ago

      Sweet Jesus this is a gold mine. George Washington Hitler’s son, DR. GAY HITLER?

      I have left this mortal plane.

      • Captain Aggravated
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        4•4 months ago

        The man who invented the mortgage was named Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebone. His father’s name was Praise God Barebone. First name Praise, middle name God, last name Barebone.

    • @[email protected]
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      6•4 months ago

      It’s hard to put them into a 1st, 2nd, 3rd position.

      What about Bum Farto?

      Dick Trickle?

      Or even Fanny Chmelar?

      • @[email protected]
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        3•4 months ago

        Where does Dick Swett fit?

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_N._Swett

        • @[email protected]
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          2•4 months ago

          Hahahaha, he’s very high on the list :)

      • @[email protected]
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        2•4 months ago

        Is fanny still a commonly used word in the UK? It’s not very common in American English.

        • @[email protected]
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          2•4 months ago

          Obviously it depends who you’re talking to, or what about, but yeah. Constantly in some cases.

          P.S. In case you weren’t aware, it means “a lady’s front bottom” in British English, rather than the arse, as it means in American English.

      • Lovable Sidekick
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        2•3 months ago

        My high school friend’s lawyer dad once represented a client named Harry Organ.

        • @[email protected]
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          1•3 months ago

          Hahahaha. That’s brilliant :)

    • I Cast Fist
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      4•4 months ago

      DOCTOR Gay Hitler 🤣

    • @[email protected]
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      1•4 months ago

      Not surprised there are Hitlers in circleville ohio

  • @[email protected]
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    13•4 months ago

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