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Tell me, Jerome, if a piss drunk sergeant has a loaded .45 pointed at the head of a piece of dung that the piss drunk sergeant hates and despises, how would you describe the situation?
— Toomey · Biloxi Blues
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An editorial interpretation.
This is a bullying quiz in a very rough tone. The speaker sets up a hypothetical about a furious sergeant and someone he despises, then asks the listener to name the situation. It's a loaded question meant to corner him into giving the obvious, uncomfortable answer.
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