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This is probably photoshopped, but it's still funny....lmao

I just can't work out the police car one

This is probably photoshopped, but it's still funny....lmao

Actually, it isn't - that poor Foot Guard did the funky chicken right in front of Her Majesty.

At least - I can't know for certain, not knowing the origin of the picture; but I do know that it was an affliction I was plagued with on parade.

Probably, most people don't realize how long we poor foot-pounders have to stand at attention before the DOD (Dignitary of the Day) makes their appearance on a ceremonial parade. It's rarely less than an hour; frequently much longer, standing totally motionless on a sweltering parade square while high ranking bozos visitors munch on nanaimo bars and say 'Ooo, look at the pretty uniforms'.

Even after nine years; I'd generally make it about three quarters of an hour before woozing out and bouncing off the asphalt.

Most embarrassing moment: Doing the Funky Chicken in Bosnia; right in front of General Lewis MacKenzie.
(I ran into him years later at a formal dinner in Ottawa. He recognized me instantly. Was it for my brilliant leadership of a section of Pioneers? No. For my first-rate security work? No. That sniper we took out? Nope - it was because he remembered the soldier that bounced a foot off the concrete five feet in front of him. Dammit. )

BUT - in my own defense; at least I went down like a soldier - ramrod straight and face first... I might have looked like street pizza, but I kept my pride... 8-)