Famous Las Vegas Writers' School

Radar wants to spice up his life at the 4077th, so he joins a writers' school by mail. Whoever the famous writer is in Las Vegas sends him some information and Radar starts writing. Predictably, his overly flowerly and adjective-laden writing sounds like he swallowed a thesaurus. (What's another word for thesaurus? I can't think of one right now.)

Hawkeye tells Radar: Just be yourself. Write about life on the farm and your parents back in Ottumwa, Iowa.

So often tempted by pretension and one-upmanship, we think that tarting events in our daily lives up a bit will make us something we're not. We're probably right. We become less than we are. Just be yourself.