The Best of... Top 10 lines home from bootcamp

[Arwen]

There are nearly 100 pages of lines and discussions on the original "Top 10" page.

Here's the best of the lines from those pages! (I'm about half through the original list, I'll get the rest of them soon)

Top 10 "Say what?" lines

"I guess not everybody appreciates ninjas."- K

From a phone call... "Bryan was telling me he was getting ready to go to Church. I said 'Wow, which one do you go to?' He replied, 'The one with the free donuts.'" - Donna

"Got to go mom I am so tired and I still have to iron my boots." - Charlotte T

"I've never seen so many grown men scream about a lost pair of shoe laces." - Ann

"I will be getting some wisdom teeth pulled, I am exited I get to stay in bed for 2 days" - Lisa G

"Mom I miss you so much. Can you send me a picture of my dog??" - Ann

"Getting gassed is not as much fun as you'd think." - Seaoat Lisa

Top 10 "my kid has a new perspective" lines

"My perspective of bootcamp was to get in shape, shoot guns, breath gas and learn to salute.....boy I was wrong." - Shell

"They are really detailed oriented and as you and I both know Im not good at details." - Nonnie

"Mom, i'm pretty sure the way the RDC's talk to us is illegal." - Paula (Erica's Mom)

"I have no hair and the food is good, my chief is female and haven't seen a lady get that mad!" - Christina

"I apologize to dad for making fun of him when he irons because I am ironing everything too, even underwear." Donna G

Top 10 "awww" lines

"Mail call is like the ice-cream truck just arrived at the park on a very hot day." - Chris Amo

"So yeah, on Monday I got eight letters from you, a little ridiculous half the mail was mine." - C from T

"One good thing Mom, i'm not crying as much at night" - Regina

"Dear Mom, You were right boot camp is hard." - Jacki Druckemiller

"I could get some sleep if all the married men would quit crying" - Sherry R

"Mom, I owe you everything. The other guys don't know how to listen." - Char

"Thanks for all the years you made me clean my room, it finally paid off" - Angel

"I miss you guys and I miss just talking with you and getting hugs from you! I think that is the one thing I miss the most...Hugs..." - Maureen

Top 10 Hair-lines

"I look ridiculous bald, so I try not to look in the mirror." Susie, mom of BlackGryphon

"Guess what, Mom, it seems that I don't have a bumpy head now that I am bald" - Pat L

"These annoying glasses keep sliding off my face and frankly don't compliment my new stylish hairdo." - Lynn

"We reached a big turning point in boot camp that we have been longing for, we were allowed to buy barrettes for our hair!" - Lynn

"I've been stripped of my gender. My hair is cut just like Timothy Tidwell's. If you want to see what I look like, go see Grizly Man Diaries." - Connie in Alaska

"I never knew how bad my hairline is until they shaved my head ,thanks Dad." - Brian

"My head is shaves and I am ready to go." - Jessie 17

Top 10 Uniform lines

"We had to put on all of our uniforms and get inspected after each one. It's like a freakin fashion show" - Lisa in Michigan

"Saturday was fashion day, trying on new uniforms and it took ALL DAY!" - GInger

"With all these buttons, you don't want to wait until you gotta pee really bad". - Lisa in Michigan

"These uniforms are sick!!" - Lorrie

"We go our dress uniforms last week, they are PIMP!!" - Cherith N

"Inspection was in dress whites and I looked like white on rice in a snowstorm" - BethB

Top 10 food lines

"There's one type of meat, I don't know what it is.. we call it "mystery meat".. you don't wanna eat that, it's got 2 different colors to it" - Robin

"You know what is great about this place? I get cookies twice a day!" Lynn

"The food here is good but the lunch ladies are as scary as the RDC's". - Jacqueline

"I am not saying one word after graduation until I have a cheesy gordia crunch from the closest taco bell in my hand." - Terri

"The government is actually putting its money to good use because the food is alright." - Mama CCJ

"The food is pretty good here and the staff in the chow hall is very friendly, although I have to admit there were a couple of times I had to pretend I was on Fear Factor and wolf something disgusting down as quickly as possible, because food is food now. Taste is often a bonus." - Connie in Alaska

"Today we got to have a pizza party! The RDC ate pizza and we did pushups until he was done eating." - Christy Adams

"The food is good, we even get 5 minutes to eat it." - Dusty's Mom

Wait, aren't you going to read me my rights?

"Hey this can't be as bad as jail - at least we get paid here." - Cathee

"Boot camp is a lot like jail. But in jail they let you have TV." - Kimandtheboys

"This place is one giant OCD prison." - Vicki

Just plain funny

"I will never find Travis we all look alike!" - Jacqueline Manning, about her son looking for a friend who arrived a week earlier.

"I'm gonna kick my recruiters @$$ !!" - Johnna, Lynette's mom

"I need to break up with my boyfriend (back home). I have grown so much here. I am not the same as I was 8 weeks ago. Oh, and I can't forget . .. Navy guys are fricken HOT!". - Teresa

"At first I did not think the girls were all that cute, but after time they have grown on me." - Andrea TX

From an "adopted" sailor - "Thanks so much for writing to me, this was the first letter I recieved in BC and it means alot to me that you have wrote, please keep writing and SEND MORE PICTURES OF YOUR DAUGHTERS!" C from T

"I ironed all of Steve's laundry just so I could have your address. I saw a picture of your family...boy your daughters are beautiful and Steve says they are smart. Can I write to which ever one is older?
Sincerley (his spelling lol) R" - Shell

"We walked down a long hall of pnuematic needles, at the end of this hall we were told to drop trou and bend over where I recieved the worst shot of my life." - Deb

"Excelled in ironing and making her rack." - Beatrizm

"80 guys in our dvision and we get 10 minuites to "pump and dump" you can imagine how hectic that is." Mama B

"These drill sergants have nothing on you Mama" - Laura A

"I volunteered for garbage duty so I could go outside!" - Tee

"Most the guys are sick. Their eyes are red and they are moving really slow. I feel like I'm in a bad zombie movie". - Lisa in Michigan

"My bunk mate snores like a wilderbeast" - Tammy

"Keep the letters coming, I like to read them when I am pooping in the middle of the night while everyone else is sleeping." - Tracy

'I'm really bored though, folding clothes and taking showers with 72 other dudes isn't exactly my best choice of passing time." - Staci

"That scribble is a dust bunny. Dust bunnies are hated by everyone in RTC, especially the petty officers. They hate that...and if our compartment isn't on spot....guess what....lock-n-load situps." - Staci

"I'm a great ironer, I get compliments on my creases." - Cheryl

"Oh, we got 3 more shots again yesterday and since I passed out the first time, I had to wear this big red sign around my neck that said "Fall Risk"!! I felt like such a dork!" - Kathy

"Don't ever let any of your children ever join the military ever again." - Laurie

"I screwed up drill so now all I get to do is clean and do it unarmed, I'm getting pretty good at this." - Valorie

"Picture this, we're all standing in black boots, with black socks pulled up to our knees, blue shorts or occasionally the green ones righteously dubbed "diapers" then a white tucked in shirt. Then you have the guys that have to wear big bottle glass BC glasses strapped to their head with geek straps." - Vickie

"They made me a section leader because I know how to fold my clothes and put them away, shocking isn't it" - Julie (Adam's Mom)

"Some of the guys are starting to slowly slip into insanity." DCSCARSMOM

"I wish I could hold you in my arms right now, Well actually not right now cause there are like 80 othe guys sharing the same room with me but you know what i mean." - BB

"Billy said Jason is in charge of setting up and organizing the ironing board usage for recruits. He has apparently made a good impression with his ironing skills." - Christie U

"Don't believe the yearbook from bootcamp. There is a zero fun policy or something." - Beachmomma

"WOW! Excitement just ensued! We had a fire drill just now, only I don't know if it was a drill because there was no RDC's and fire trucks came and I think it's kind of smokey, but I can't really see. UPDATE: the fire alarm was set off in our compartment and I think *I* set it off. My bunkmate kept harassing me, saying my feet smelled so I sprayed hella foot spray and I guess the powder set it off" - Lynn Shoop

"My birthday went alright. My RDC's didn't find out." - Spongedawn

"So the other day there was a group of us in the Head all squatting, we started singing 'Bye, bye Miss American Pie.' When one of the RDC's showed up and told us to shut up. I bet he left laughing his a@@ off. Imagine walking into a bathroom full of grown men singing as they s---. Funny." - Cherith N

"Everything here has to be perfectly clean. Mom, I finally got dirt vision." - Kaye S

"Boot camp is like gum stuck on a shoe. Once you notice it's there, you're sad." - Ren

"My bunkmate looks like Bubba from Forest Gump, I wonder if he'll let me go shrimpin' with him" - Tanya

"I now know how to iron my clothes and shine shoes. All the tools I need to be a street bum.". Christie U

"I've decided it would take too much paper work and cost to much money to kill us, so we will survive." - Lynn

"For a bunch of really smart guys all heading to Nuke school, you'd think they could learn to shut up" - Lynn

"They let us sleep in today, until 6am! He then said, I can't believe I said 6 am, and sleep in, in the same sentence!!" Tracy

"Baby, I dont realize what all this ironing is for, but I have seen a grown man cry over getting it worng and having to do BLACKLINE...so dam*it I am officially Susie Homemaker when it comes to ironing crap...." - Amanda Y

" I've decided that the RDC's are trying to impose Stockholm Syndrome.......and it's working!" - Tammy, Austin's Mom

"I'm on Color Guard and it's very important to NOT drop the flag......that ranks right up there with do NOT drop the soap!" - Tammy, Austin's Mom

"As you know Mom, I couldn't iron or fold to save my life, but after a few 8 counts, screaming in my face, I am now a certified folding and ironing specialist." - Marie

"We got some IT for the first time today and it sounded like an orgy in here with all these girls moaning." - Scott - Megan's husband

"I'll let you in on a little secret that I learned here at Boot Camp. Shut up and do what you are told, and it works wonders." - Kathy from Ks.

"Mom, these people here have no souls." - Rene

"Also, I love the weather! It snows everyday and they won't tell us how cold it is here, but when I get back from marching the water in my canteen is frozen!" - Kelly

"Chief is f$#*&$# hardcore and very fluent in profanity" - Becca (Jack's girl)

[Craig]

I always loved this.  Did you ever get the last 1/2 done?

[Arwen]

That's in my plans for this weekend.