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Military humor is humor based on stereotypes of military life. Military humor portrays a wide range of characters and situations in the armed forces. It comes in a wide array of cultures and tastes, making use of burlesque, cartoons, comic strips, double entendre, exaggeration, jokes, parody, gallows humor, pranks, ridicule and sarcasm. Military humor often comes in the form of military jokes or "barracks jokes". Military slang, in any language, is also full of humorous expressions; the term "fart sack" is military slang for a bed or sleeping bag.〔(Fart sack at Sex-lexis )〕 Barrack humor also often makes use of dysphemism, such as the widespread usage of "shit on a shingle" for chipped beef.〔(Chipped beef on toast )〕 Certain military expressions, like friendly fire, are a frequent source of satirical humor.〔(Friendly fire cartoons and comics )〕 Notable cartoonists of military humor include Bill Mauldin, Dave Breger, George Baker, Shel Silverstein and Vernon Grant. ==Military jokes== *Military jokes might be sometimes quite blunt, e.g. British soldiers used to make a joke about the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) military decoration, to say of a comrade wounded down the belly that he had received DSO, DSO meaning "Dickie Shot Off." *In other jokes however, the lack of seriousness is more subtle. Often these are in-jokes and not everyone understands them; e.g., the following reference to "Camouflage Uniform Wear Policies":〔(Rod Powers ''Camouflage Uniform Wear Policies'' in the US military )〕 * *Marines: Work uniform, to be worn only during training and in field situations. * *Army: Will wear it anytime, anywhere. * *Navy: Will not wear camouflage uniforms, they do not camouflage you on a ship. (Ship Captains will make every effort to attempt to explain this to sailors.) * *Air Force: Will defeat the purpose of camouflage uniforms by putting blue and silver chevrons and colorful squadron patches all over them. *Cadences often contain humorous lyrics, or can be modified to be humorous. Examples: * *''My girl's got big ol' hips / Just like two battleships...'' * *''They say that in the Army, the biscuits are mighty fine / One rolled off the table, and killed a friend of mine...'' *Sometimes the joke is made by civilians about the military. In the Philippines during President Ferdinand Marcos martial law years, Chief of the Armed Forces General Fabian Ver was a feared figure. In the midst of the tense times, Filipino people used to joke that the general was so fiercely loyal that if Marcos would have ordered him to jump out of the window, General Ver would have saluted and said, "Which floor, sir?"〔(Ken Kashiwahara ''Aquino's Final Journey''. ''The New York Times 1983 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Military humor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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