Private Joker Parris Island, South Carolina. The Marine Corps Training Depot. An eight-week college for the phony tough and the crazy brave. Private Joker The dead have been covered with lime. The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive. Private Joker My thoughts drift back to erect nipple wet dreams about Mary Jane Rottencrotch and the Great Homecoming **** Fantasy. I am so happy that I am alive, in one piece, and short. I'm in a world of shit... yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid.