| Serving those serving |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Aug 2025 |
| Doing mess hall duty |
Newsday |
09 Jul 2025 |
| Peeling spuds, maybe (2 wds.) |
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| Doing mess prep |
Newsday |
22 May 2025 |
| Doing dishes in a mess hall, say |
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| Being punished, as some GIs |
Newsday |
13 Oct 2024 |
| Assigned to peeling, in the army |
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| Doing mess hall prep |
Newsday |
16 May 2024 |
| Doing mess hall duties, for short |
New York Times |
28 Apr 2024 |
| Working, as spud-peeling GIs |
Newsday |
21 Feb 2024 |
| Like many dish-washing GIs |
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| Working in a mess, for short |
New York Times |
14 Jun 2023 |
| Doing mess hall duty |
Newsday |
15 Mar 2023 |
| Peeling potatoes, perhaps |
New York Times |
22 Feb 2023 |
| Cleaning up the mess, say |
LA Times Daily |
01 Jan 2023 |
| Like spud-peeling GIs |
Premier Sunday |
20 Nov 2022 |
| Doing some mess hall duty, in army lingo |
New York Times |
20 Jul 2022 |
| Cleaning up a mess? |
The Washington Post Sunday |
13 Mar 2022 |
| Like a GI doing dishes |
LA Times Daily |
23 Feb 2022 |
| Like a GI doing dishes |
The Washington Post |
23 Feb 2022 |
| Doing mess work |
LA Times Daily |
14 Nov 2021 |
| Working the mess |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Jun 2021 |
| Preparing potatoes, perhaps |
Newsday |
16 Jan 2021 |
| Like GIs in the kitchen |
LA Times Daily |
10 Jan 2021 |
| Like GIs in the kitchen |
The Washington Post |
10 Jan 2021 |
| Like GIs peeling potatoes |
Premier Sunday |
13 Dec 2020 |
| Doing some menial duty, in old army lingo |
New York Times |
27 Sep 2020 |
| Prepping for mess |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Jul 2020 |
| Peeling potatoes as punishment, maybe |
New York Times |
26 Feb 2020 |
| Cleaning up the mess, for short? |
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| Cleaning up the mess, for short? |
New York Times |
15 Dec 2019 |
| Assigned to peeling, in the army: 2 wds. |
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| Assigned to peeling, in the army: 2 wds. |
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| Peeling potatoes, perhaps |
Newsday |
21 Jul 2019 |
| Working a mess |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Jul 2019 |
| Working a mess |
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| Like a GI doing dishes |
The Washington Post |
09 Jul 2018 |
| Like a GI doing dishes |
LA Times Daily |
09 Jul 2018 |
| Like spud-peeling GIs |
Premier Sunday |
10 Jun 2018 |
| Serving those who are serving |
Wall Street Journal |
08 May 2018 |
| Like a GI doing dishes |
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| Serving those who are serving |
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| Like a G.I. cleaning up after a meal, maybe |
New York Times |
06 Nov 2017 |
| Where Beetle Bailey shouldn't be, per his 2006 re-enlistment contract |
Newsday |
16 Sep 2017 |
| Punished, as some privates |
Newsday |
13 Jul 2017 |
| Cleaning up a mess? |
The Washington Post |
18 Mar 2017 |
| Cleaning up a mess? |
LA Times Daily |
18 Mar 2017 |
| Cleaning up a mess? |
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| Like a G.I. cleaning up after a meal, maybe |
|
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| Like a pvt. peeling potatoes |
The Washington Post |
01 Nov 2016 |
| Assigned to a mess, perhaps |
Newsday |
26 Aug 2016 |
| Like a potato-peeling pvt |
USA Today |
16 Jul 2016 |
| Peeling potatoes, stereotypically |
The Washington Post |
08 Jul 2016 |
| Working in a mess hall, perhaps |
Newsday |
30 Mar 2016 |
| Like a potato-peeling pvt. |
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| Working in a mess hall |
Newsday |
13 Dec 2015 |
| Doing mess prep |
Newsday |
01 Nov 2015 |
| Like a GI scraping plates |
LA Times Daily |
05 Oct 2015 |
| Working in the mess hall |
New York Times |
16 Jun 2015 |
| Stuck in a mess? |
New York Times |
24 May 2015 |
| Like some GIs in a mess |
LA Times Daily |
22 Mar 2015 |
| Cleaning up after the mess? |
LA Times Daily |
27 Jan 2015 |
| Doing mess prep |
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| Working in a mess hall |
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| Stuck in a mess? |
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| Working in the mess hall |
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| Cleaning up after the mess? |
|
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| Like a GI scraping plates |
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| Like some GIs in a mess |
|
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| Peeling potatoes in the mil., perhaps |
|
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| Doing messy preparation? |
|
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| Like some punished 1-Down |
|
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| Being punished, as some GIs |
|
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| Peeling potatoes, perhaps |
|
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| Cleaning a mess, maybe |
|
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| Like GIs in the mess |
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| Cleaning up a mess? |
|
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| Peeling potatoes in a mess hall, say |
|
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| Like a spud-slicing GI |
|
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| Doing mil. meal duty |
|
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| Doing some mil. drudge work |
|
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| Preparing potatoes, as a GI |
|
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| Doing mil. drudge work |
|
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| Peeling potatoes, perhaps |
|
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| Like a private peeling potatoes |
|
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| Being punished for sassing Sarge, maybe |
|
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| Like Beetle Bailey, often |
|
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| Doing military kitchen duty |
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| Helping with a GI mess |
|
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| Peeling potatoes, presumably |
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| Dutifully doing dishes, maybe |
|
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| Cleaning the mess? |
|
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| Stuck in a mess? |
|
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| Like a pvt. peeling potatoes |
|
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| Cleaning a mess in a mess, maybe |
|
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| Being punished, military-style |
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| In a mess, in a way |
|
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| Peeling potatoes, stereotypically |
|
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| Like a private peeling potatoes |
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| Doling out mil. rations |
|
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| Slicing spuds, perhaps |
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| Cleaning up a mess, maybe |
|
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| Peeling potatoes, stereotypically |
|
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| Working in a mess? |
|
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| Preparing hash for G.I. Joe, say |
|
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| Doling out mil. rations |
|
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| Helping make a mess, perhaps? |
|
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| Doing mil. drudge work |
|
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| Like a GI peeling spuds |
|
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| Like a GI peeling potatoes |
|
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| Like a GI peeling potatoes |
|
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| Doing mil. dishes |
|
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| Like a GI peeling spuds |
|
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| Cleaning up a mess? |
|
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| Doing mil. dishes |
|
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| Like a pvt. washing dishes, say |
|
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| Where Beetle Bailey often is |
|
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| Assigned to the dishes |
|
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| Working in a mess |
|
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| Like a pvt. peeling potatoes |
|
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| Where Beetle Bailey can often be found |
|
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| Like a spud-peeling GI |
|
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| Assigned to the dishes |
|
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| Like a pvt. peeling potatoes |
|
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| Peeling potatoes, perhaps |
|
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| Doing mil. penance, in a way |
|
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| Working in a mess |
|
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| Like some punished G.I.'s |
|
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| Peeling potatoes, perhaps |
|
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| Doing some mil. drudge work |
|
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| Peeling potatoes, perhaps |
|
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| Peeling potatoes, perhaps |
|
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| Doing some mil. drudge work |
|
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| Wielding a peeler, maybe |
|
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| Toiling in a mess |
|
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| Like a G.I. peeling spuds |
|
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| Peeling spuds, maybe |
|
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| Making a mess? |
|
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| Peeling potatoes, to a GI |
|
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| Doing kitchen duty, to a GI |
|
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| Cleaning a mess? |
|
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| Doing mil. penance, in a way |
|
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| Like Beetle Bailey, often |
|
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| Like a Pvt. washing dishes |
|
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| Helping in a mess |
|
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| Cleaning a mess? |
|
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| Peeling potatoes, perhaps |
|
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| Dutifully doing dishes, perhaps |
|
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| Doing mil. penance, in a way |
|
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| Like Beetle Bailey, often |
|
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| Like a Pvt. washing dishes |
|
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| Peeling, perhaps |
|
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| Making a mess in the army? |
|
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| Doing mil. meal duty |
|
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| Like a pvt. washing dishes |
|
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| Like a pvt. washing dishes |
|
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| Peeling potatoes, perhaps |
|
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| Like a pvt. washing dishes |
|
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| Doing mil. meal duty |
|
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| Stuck in a mess? |
|
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| Toiling in a mess |
|
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| Like GIs in the kitchen |
|
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| Doing mil. drudge work, maybe |
|
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| Like a punished G.I., perhaps |
|
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| Doing kitchen duty, to a GI |
|
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| Like a pvt. washing dishes, say |
|
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| Working in a mess |
|
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| Doing kitchen duty, to a G.I. |
|
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| Preparing dinner for a large company, maybe |
|
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| In a mess, in a way |
|
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| Peeling potatoes, likely |
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