Okay, that it! The P.C. social engineers can’t have G.I. Joe. I refuse to allow the hero I grew up with to be depersonalized and emasculated. This is one childhood icon that the cultural iconoclasts can’t have. Write Paramount Pictures and Hasbro.
G.I. J.O.E. = Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, my eye.
“G.I. Joe is not an international hero. That’s crap,” said Col. Hunt. “They don’t have to water it down. That doesn’t make sense.”
The good old days:
Mary Victrix 
So Father, are you saying that boys should be playing with dolls, then?
; )
G.I. Joe is not a doll. It is a toy soldier. There is a difference. A doll preens. A toy soldier fights.
They need to put blue hats on the new ones and call them UN Joes. They should make them talk too, they could say “THIS IS THE UN!, OPEN THE DOOR OR WE ARE COMING IN!”
Oye Vey, G.I. Joe stood for the proud American Boy. We sent him into battle aginst many different foes, C.O.B.R.A., of course was teh “Arch” enemy of G.I. Joe, but there were also Dinosaurs, and transformers, and yes the dreaed “Dollies”. If an appendage, was lost in battle, then the only Patriotic way (and coolest) to send a hero off was by attaching a M-80, lighting it, then using a sling shot to send him up inot the sky, as his body parts blasted inot 1,000 tiny little pieces. I suppose this new G.I. Joe will have to get teh approval from his government before he engages the “enemy”.
If an appendage, was lost in battle, then the only Patriotic way (and coolest) to send a hero off was by attaching a M-80, lighting it, then using a sling shot to send him up inot the sky, as his body parts blasted inot 1,000 tiny little pieces.
A truly honorable way to die in battle.
I suppose this new G.I. Joe will have to get teh approval from his government before he engages the “enemy”.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the “user” of G.I.J.O.E. will have to get the “government’s” permission to engage him against the “enemy.” Before you know it kids will be licensed to use the action figure according to an agreement. They won’t own the thing. Any use contrary to international law will be grounds for repossession of the action figure.
Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity…Wow, PC strikes again. And, we are trying to please all the USA haters in the world by making G.I. Joe an International-UN/NATO type organization based outside of the USA to please the rest of the USA hating world; the liberals in Hollywood; and the movie exec’s trying to market a big budget movie in USA hating countries so they can make more money out of it! Wow, lets just ask for Team America part 2 instead!
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