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The Names
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 1:49 pm
by Hancock the Superb
What are the little names we get?
Like at the MMG board, there is cannon fodder, regimental colonel, brigadier, divisional, corps, army, and Presidental candidate.
I see cannon fodder and grunt.
Grunt?
Definitly not Civil War related.
Re:The Names
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:00 pm
by Armchair General
Grunt just means a regular foot soldier, someone who is on the line doing the fighting and dying.
Re:The Names
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:24 am
by louie raider
Hancock the Superb wrote:
Grunt?
Definitly not Civil War related.
You're assuming this is a site dedicated to only Civil War-era topics...
Re:The Names
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:20 am
by norb
I just threw in some names that seemed to work. I always liked grunt, just seems fitting.
Re:The Names
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:40 am
by JC Edwards
norb wrote:
I just threw in some names that seemed to work. I always liked grunt, just seems fitting.
Well of course you do! Your's says "Admin".......Louie's is "NSD Artist" and so on........I'm seeing how this works!:P
Re:The Names
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:56 pm
by ironsight
Grunt? Definitely NOT Civil War Related! Been there, done that! Ha! Ha!
Some of the places i worked at many years ago; steel mills, refinery, pipeline Co. and an auto assembly plant to be exact, everyone was considered even called a grunt if they weren't phony baloney 'knighted' with some kind of management title who lived out their 8 hrs a day in their plush air conditioned 'ivory tower' office areas while us grunts who actually did the work would do the sweating and toiling.
In a couple of those above companies, if a grunt was not capable of doing the work, was lazy, procrastinated, didn't finish assignments on time, always needed help, made too many mistakes, BS'd too much, dilly-dallied, day dreamed too much or was accident prone, they'd make him a manager! This was common knowledge and was a standing joke among us grunters.
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