Kirbyisms
The irascible William G. Kirby is never at a loss for a quip that captures perfectly
his feelings. Following are some of the "Kirby-isms" that are favorites of Combat!
fans:
The First Day - Season: 4 Episode: 2
- The new recruit says: "I'll be nineteen in August"
Kirby replies, "I'll be 100 in August".
- -- Submitted by list member King Six
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clip (24 k)
- Kirby: "Caje, we better win this war soon ... we're running out of
men."
Forgotten Front
Kirby talking about the old German - crushing an apple under his boot
heel:
- Doc: He's a human being.
Kirby: He's a bug!
--Submitted by list member Wild Card
Rear Echelon Commandos
- Kirby comments when he comes back from checking out the town, "Nothing but a bunch
of geeses."
--Submitted by list member Red Three
Weep No More
- Hanley: If the Krauts start moving in, you know what to do.
- Kirby: Yes, sir. Panic.
-- Submitted by list member King Two
Next in Command
- "Nothin' I like better than buryin' Germans in the rain."
- -- Submitted by list member Wild Card
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Night Patrol
- Kirby: "What time is it?"
- Saunders: "Oh seven hundred."
- Kirby: "What time is that?"
- Saunders (with a priceless look at Kirby): "Seven."
-- Submitted by list member Wild Card
- Kirby to Caje (who's soaking his feet in pool of hot mineral water): "You
wouldn't catch me doin' that."
- Caje: "Sure feels good, Kirby."
- Kirby: "Yeah, sure...until a month from now when your toes fall off."
- Caje: "You know what your problem is, Kirby? You worry too much. Maybe I've
found the fountain of youth."
- Kirby: "Yeah...well...so you'll have young feet."
-- Submitted by list member Wild Card
Battle of the Roses
- Kirby: Is that dame still in the garden?
- Saunders: Yeah she's still there. Wait a minute, where do you think you're going?
- Kirby: I'm ... I'm going to evacuate her!
-- Submitted by list member Queen's Bishop
Kirby's
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Saunders: Take off, she's not your type.
Kirby: She's a woman!
-- Submitted by list member Queen's Bishop
One More For The Road
Referring to the infant they've just found: "Doc, you'd better take
him,'cause the babes is more my style!"
---- Submitted by list member Queen's Bishop
Masquerade
- "Hey, bring back some comic books next trip, will ya?."
--Submitted by list member Red Three
The Little Jewel
- "Another wet day, another wet town."
-- Submitted by list member King Two
- "This is absolutely my last war."
-- Submitted by list member King Two
Also a favorite of Queen's Bishop
A Silent Cry
- Caje: The coward dies a thousand times, the brave only once.
- Kirby: That's about all it takes, ain't it?
-- Submitted by list member King Two
Also a favorite of list member Wild Card
Birthday Cake
- Kirby, in a tussle over Littlejohn's birthday cake: "Oh grow up!"
-- Submitted by list member Karen Thorson
The Casket
- A badly wounded Kirby is placed in the back of the truck truck that carries a coffin and
says: "Sarge, you think of everything."
--Submitted by list member Don Roberts
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