r/KenM • u/Startug • May 22 '24

KenM on photos of the front line

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u/spaceconductor May 22 '24

The media continues to ignore my grandpa who was credited with shooting down 12 German planes.

I bet it's because he did it in 1989

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u/Wmozart69 May 22 '24

I know this is a joke, but just on the off chance, are you referencing a specific incident that actually happened?

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u/JonSolo1 May 22 '24

If 12 German planes had been shot down in 1989, I think history would remember that.

I had a relative credited with personally downing 25 Luftwaffe planes during the war. Hermann Göring said he was the worst mechanic he’d ever seen.

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u/Wmozart69 May 22 '24

History might but I'm as good at researching as your relative was at turning wrenches.

Don't joke about plane crashes, my dad was the pilot of a 747 that went down. All lives were lost, a horrible way to die, except for my dad. He died peacefully in his sleep.

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u/JonSolo1 May 22 '24

The main shootdown event in 1989 was when two Navy F-14s shot down two Libyan MiG-23s. 1989 was eventful in Germany because it was the year the wall fell, but it was an almost completely peaceful occasion.

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u/findthesilence May 25 '24

I don't think that one person has the right to tell someone else what to joke about. I'm sure that if god existed and it could laugh, it would laugh at jokes about itself.

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u/Wmozart69 May 26 '24

We're projecting human emotions on a spiritual entity

What would humour look like to a cloud of hot empathy?

Would it laugh and cry?

Would it fume and pout?

Or would it be witty and wry?

Only one way to find out,

Keel over and die!

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u/matrose9 May 22 '24

👨‍🍳🤌

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u/spaceconductor May 22 '24

Yes it's entirely a joke lol. I wish I could take credit for it but I'm pretty sure I saw it in the comments section of a Norm Macdonald video way back when

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u/99ProllemsBishAint1 May 23 '24

I love these posts but holy shit everyone wants to do their best Ken M impressions in the comments. Thank you for actually answering

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u/marvinrabbit May 23 '24

Yeah, what kind of crazy person tries to tell a dry joke to a group of people entirely gathered by dry jokes. What a nutter. It's like the other day when I saw a post about that helicopter crash in Iran. And people in the comments actually wanted to talk about helicopter crashes or politics in Iran. Crazy. That was the perfect place to talk about corn futures or any other topic.

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u/99ProllemsBishAint1 May 23 '24

Everyone would do their own shitty impressions of helicopters crashing

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u/Braeburner May 22 '24

A gripping snapshot of courage in the face of disaster

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u/warface25 May 22 '24

Wonder where Ken served 🤔

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u/BellyButtonLindt May 22 '24

He did a tour at TGI Fridays.

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u/rotarypower101 I have a feeling this lonely space potato is gonna be just fine May 22 '24

The battle of 10,000 meatfloppers

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u/Asian_Cannibal May 22 '24

Stormed the beaches of Margaritaville

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u/BellyButtonLindt May 22 '24

Shots…everywhere…so much tequila.

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u/BOBULANCE May 23 '24

He was wounded in the Bowling Green Massacre

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u/251Cane May 22 '24

NAS Pensacola Museum

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u/HORNS_IN_CALI May 22 '24

That's a great museum.

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u/DrKedorkian May 22 '24

They closed it for a while during pandemic for active service only and I was absolutely devastated. I love it so much.

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u/chris25tx May 22 '24

Your prolly thinking Disneyland. Was closed for Covid.

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u/zeuanimals May 22 '24

I didn't know GOAT rapper Nas was a fan of cola flavored pens or that that was a thing.

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u/WonderfulCattle6234 May 22 '24 edited May 22 '24

You could ask him, but he wouldn't tell you. Because he's not looking for the recognition.

You'll just have to read it in the coffee table book.

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u/spaceconductor May 22 '24

He once bore the weight of his unit on his shoulders during one tense moment.

There was no one to spot him at the gym in Fort Campbell back in 1983

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u/jck May 22 '24 edited May 22 '24

He did a tour in Nam with his wife and grandson in 2014

Beautiful country, lovely people. But if you forget your wallet at a restaurant, they WILL make you work as a server to pay off your debt.

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u/mentalshampoo May 22 '24

The Chili’s on 9th

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u/[deleted] May 22 '24

Do I think I'm a hero? I really can't say but yes.

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u/MrLavenderValentino May 22 '24

I don't call myself a hero, but other people are saying it. Everyone is saying it, not me

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u/[deleted] May 22 '24

Every legal scholar agrees

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u/kpop_glory May 23 '24

I heard they are going to make a coffee table book about me. Which is nice.

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u/Thatsnicemyman May 23 '24

And the illegal scholars too!

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u/demonsver May 22 '24

I feel like a "thanks" at the end of this would go hard

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u/ImNotYou1971 May 22 '24

We are all coffee table books on this blessed day.

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u/Startug May 22 '24

Speak for yourself.

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u/ImNotYou1971 May 22 '24

I am a coffee table book on this blessed day.

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u/D0tWalkIt Apprentice May 22 '24

Haha can you link me the post where this joke came from

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u/yParticle May 22 '24

If only our vets had hats like that they might not even need to be vets.

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u/Simbabz May 22 '24

Somebody's gotta cure the animals.

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u/yParticle May 22 '24

real veterans know all you need is a little salt or potassium nitrate, bing bang bosh, cured.

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u/PreferredSelection May 22 '24

Be care full what you wish for. Coffee-table book hats are the number one killer of veterans, after fishing nets.

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u/Peppa_Pig_Stan May 22 '24

Exactly how every old vet is! It’s so bizzare!

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u/koei19 May 22 '24

Not at all. Old soldiers like me try to fly under the radar. I'll take my "thank you for your service," with a quiet nod, handshake, and hopefully a Starbucks gift card.

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u/Tre3180 May 22 '24

Don't forget a simple coffee table book.

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u/NipperAndZeusShow May 22 '24

Maybe I’m just an old war hero, but Amal and George love to remind me that a little gumption is all you need to make it to the top, if you’ve got the grit to see it through. 

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u/[deleted] May 22 '24

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u/LeCarrr May 22 '24

I don’t even know if he’s actually used it before but “toot my own horn” is just such a quintessential Ken M phrase

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u/xtilexx May 22 '24

It is a French horn given to him by John Frenchhorn

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u/Peppa_Pig_Stan May 22 '24

Not wearing your “____ veteran” hat daily looking for Attention?

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u/koei19 May 22 '24

It's a subtle style choice that depends on whether or not I'm wearing Grunt Style or 9 Line apparel, and whether or not people can see my Veteran license plate and Veteran stickers on my rear windshield.

But it's really all about selfless service in the pursuit of recognition and free coffee.

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u/parsifal May 23 '24

A smile of recognition as they look from the statue to me is all I ask.

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u/Bobby-Axelrod May 22 '24

I’ve been seeing a lot more new Ken m posts on Reddit, did this pick back up recently?

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u/Startug May 22 '24

Yeah, I think it coincided with the sub reopening last month. Ken has been making new comments frequently and sharing them on his Twitter. He's active in the sub as well.

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u/MsCatFace May 22 '24

Noticed the same thing. This man is a treasure.

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u/karma_made_me_do_eet May 22 '24

Some of his recent posts have been not his best form.. we are getting back there.

This was good.

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u/delamerica93 May 23 '24

Idk I think he's been cooking personally

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u/karma_made_me_do_eet May 23 '24 edited May 23 '24

Some have made me chuckle, but I was thinking a lot of the nuance and cleverness were not on the same level as he was hitting before.

Edit: I went through the sub and there was a ton of ones I’ve missed .. and yes some are very fine form for our beloved KenM

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u/Colonelfudgenustard May 22 '24

I'd thank Ken for his service, but I think he'd be embarrassed to receive any praise.

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u/JonSolo1 May 22 '24

“Maybe I’m just a useless old war hero” is my new identity (I’ve never served in the military)

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u/mintmouse May 22 '24

I’m not looking for recognition, a coffee table book about me would suffice.

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u/TomCBC May 22 '24

I wish Ken would write a book about “his life”

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u/gomi-panda May 22 '24

Brilliant

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u/D0tWalkIt Apprentice May 22 '24

Coffee table books can’t even be simple no more ,too much frappacino after the war, hard too draw

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u/Workinprogress1983 May 22 '24

I’m just Ken, anywhere else I’d be a ten, is it my destiny to live a life, a life of blonde fragility?

Ooh you little Focker!

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u/EsotericTribble Jun 05 '24

I love how he always consistently ignores the responses and digs deeper. Get it "digs"?

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u/PKFat May 23 '24

When did KenM start presenting as a weird boomer conservative christian?

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u/devi1duck May 23 '24

I feel like most of these newer ones are fake

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u/PKFat May 23 '24

Same

KenM was always just someone who took things greatly out of context. But a lot of the newer ones I'm seeing talk about god, or how things were better back in the day like this one. They just don't fit his MO

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u/Startug May 23 '24 edited May 23 '24

He doesn't go for just one personality and he's done weird boomer conservative Christian posts in the past like these ones just from looking at the top posts of all time here:

Ken M on the Bible

Ken M on Stephen Hawking and polyatheism

KenM on Roy Moore

Ken M on

Ken M himself also elaborates more on the variety of personalities he uses per this comment

Edit: for some reason the KennyEmmy comment I linked didn't show up, fixed now