Maggie's Farm

"My friend and I were hooked on after-school reruns of M*A*S*H, which depicted the Korean War as a khaki-clad orgy of no-regrets cot-hopping."

That is the singularly stupidest thing I have ever read on the Internet -- and that's saying a LOT.

Hot Lips and Frank had a perfectly moral, non-promiscuous relationship that lasted for years. While there was a lot of leering on Hawkeye's part, the few episodes where he was actually involved with a nurse had nothing to do with sex and everything to do with personal feelings.

And the word "orgy" implies more than two people, whereas they never even came CLOSE to such a thing. In 11 years of broadcast, not once did they ever show two people (much less more than two) in bed together.

Furthermore, when you're 5,000 miles from home and surrounded by blood and death all day long, maybe -- just MAYBE -- a little "cot-hopping" would be in order, just to keep you from -- you know -- doing something like commit suicide.

The question, of course, is if the author exaggerated THAT to such extremes, what else in the article did she exaggerate to similar extremes?

For any M*A*S*H aficionados out there, you might enjoy this:

http://www.docmercury.com/rainy/proof-of-the-pudding

As the article points out, it was a highly moralistic show with good conservative values.

Sheesh.