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Five things Jack learned after becoming general.
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1) The lovely little red sticker that showed his rank, placed firmly at the top of his windshield, pretty much meant he’d never get another speeding ticket. That and with his new salary, Jack was able to buy the 1968 Porsche he always wanted.
2) Pretty much everyone will want to fuck you. Everyone.
3) There is an ugly truth to the cliché, “It’s lonely at the Top”. This became clearer and clearer every time he stood in the gate room and watched his team step through the event horizon.
4) Hire an assistant who is smarter than you and do whatever it takes to make sure Walter never leaves you. Even if it means going to his interpretive recorder recital and saying, “good job” as your ears bleed. Oh – and it helps if Walter can forge your signature.
5) People will expect you to have the answer, whenever they want need it and that usually means right away. Making decisions in the heat of a military situation, Jack could handle (they did pin nice, shiny stars on his shoulders, after all). It was the *other* answers people expected him to have that bugged the crap out of him. Random people would turn and ask him, “what color do *you* think we should paint the powder room, General?” or “what’s the best way to get to Denver, General?”.
It was worse then the times he had to stick his head in that Ancient claw-thingy and save the world. At least then he had answers, now he just said the worse things he could think of and sent the idiots who thought they had been blessed with wisdom on their way. It’s not really his fault someone painted their bathroom “pepto pink”.
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And thanks!
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#4 is wonderful, but then anything with Walter HAS to be!
#5 is probably pretty accurate. "Hey, you're a general, you must have ALL the answers." Jack has his revenge, though. LOL.
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1. Dynastic Presidencies are not a coincidence. It was all arranged. The Trust can learn a few things from a certain Texas family that really aren't from Texas.
2. The President was dropped on his head as a child.
3. Scooter Libby is a Goa'uld.
4. The Internal Revenue Service is run by the Goa'uld. It's the one agency that has virtually no oversight and unlimited power. Of course it's run by the Goa'uld.
5. The Potomac River is the best bass fishing in North America if you don't mind the fish having two heads.
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Hysterical. And yes on the IRS - plus their building is way too pretty and ornate.
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And yet it explains so much...
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I can so easily believe that there are so many Goa'uld in Washington. Maybe D.C. needs him more than we realized.
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2 That being The Man was every bit as difficult, stressful and, at times, mind-numbing, as he'd imagined. It was also much less fun and far more lonely.
3 That even though he was now The Man, he still found himself wanting to stick it to him, and frequently did.
4 That just as he could never leave his people behind as Colonel, so he couldn't leave the paperwork behind as General.
5 The leaving Sam and Teal'c to fight the good fight out there without him was like cutting off his right arm. That leaving Daniel was like cutting out his heart.
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Great list.
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Thanks for reading!
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Love #1, lol.
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Five things Jack learned after becoming general.
2. How hard it was to sit and wait for loved ones/colleagues/subordinates to dial home.
3. How quickly you could lose friends when you suddenly outranked them; and how it was nobody’s fault.
4. The delightful effect that a star on the uniform could have on a lover.
5. What a pain in the butt he had been to every superior officer that had ever commanded him.
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you really got this one spot on. Good job.
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Totally anonymous #4, I must point out with pride. Insert your own OTP, courtesy of Sid!
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2. He shouldn't change the past. No really he has himself on tape telling him not to do it.
3. Jack learned he has a son. When he gets the file during his first day in Washington he forgets to breathe. Jack's second response is to laugh. Hysterically. He finds it hard to believe but it all makes sense now. He wants to do something but he cannot. Only two other people know that Jack is the kids father. Heck, the solider really isn't a kid. Jack still has trouble reconciling the idea of fatherhood and this...guy...soldier...his son who is not Charlie. One day he will tell his son, but that day is not today.
4. The third time SG-1 is late for a check in Jack freaks out. He freaks out in his own way and eats cake. It is killing him not knowing what his team is going through. He sits at his desk. Jack wonders if this is how George felt all those years. It is harder to sit behind a desk and wait than it was to get shot at.
5. The best day Jack ever had as General was the day he learned he got to veto the mess hall menu. He could order them to make cake. Once Jack knew this every Monday became chocolate cake day.
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Let there be cake!
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Cake is always good!
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And Jack needs to watch it with the cake - just ask George. :-D Still, he needs whatever joy in his life he can get!
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lol! That was actually #9. Jack learned that he couldn't eat much cake and keep his figure now that he isn't on a gate team.
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I'm dying to know more about #3.
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I want to know more about #3 to. You could always write it. I know it would be a fantastic story.
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Me to! I wish someone would write it ;)
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in other words; it's a chick magnet
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Totally.
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