Parodies of a performance appraisal guide in a
military context can be traced back to WWII, if Spike Milligan is to be
trusted. This excerpt from his war diary
for 16 November 1943 appears in his memoir, Mussolini: His Part in My
Downfall (Penguin, 1978).
The following parodies are taken from underground GI
publications of the Vietnam War era.
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A Four-Year Bummer (Chanute Air Force Base, Champaign, IL),
vol. 1, no. 4, September 1969, p. 4.
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Gigline (Fort Bliss, Texas), vol. 1, no. 4, November 1969, p. 12. (Also Open Sights (Washington, DC), vol. 2,
no. 2, 1 March 1970, p. 8.)
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GI Press Service (Washington, D.C.), vol. 1, no. 12, Nov. 27, 1969, p.
186. (Also We Got the Brass (Tokyo,
Japan), no. 4, Summer 1970, p. 7.)
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Grunt Free Press (Honolulu, HI), vol. 2, no. 2, April 1970,
p. 17.
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The Whig (Angeles City, Philippines), vol. 1, no.
2, Aug.-Sep. 1970, p. 2.
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Minnesota Home Front Sniper (Minneapolis), vol. 1, no. 1, August 1971,
p. 10.
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Why (Okinawa, Japan), no. 1, 1971, p. 2.
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All the periodicals featured above can be accessed at Independent Voices.
Concurrently school teachers shared variants
that applied to their own work environment.
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Ollie M. James, “Handled With Care.” The Cincinnati
Enquirer, 12 Dec. 1968, p. 7.
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“Teachers’ System Rates Principals.” Arizona
Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 13 August 1969, p. 25.
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[Sample phrases: leaps tall buildings, talks with God,
talks to himself, walks on water, he is god]
