It was "...rum, sodomy, and the lash. As in "Don't talk to me about Navy tradition, it's nothing but....", part of the staff's introduction to him in his very first job in the Navy, as First Lord of the Admiralty.
It's called the Royal Canadian Navy, the "tot of rum" per day continued until fairly recently, and it used to have actual boats until the cutbacks. The last prime minister wanted to buy 9 billion dollars worth of used nuclear submarines, this idea started a list that proved beyond doubt his lack of sanity, and now we have Jean Chr‚tien and a new list.
"I thought Tail Hook and the recent court martials of drill sargeants showed a definite heterosexual proclivity in the American military."
You never wondered why they call them drill sergeants? Anyway, doesn't "proclivity" derive from the Latin proclivitas, meaning "steep decline", and isn't it a synonym for "bent"?
"They managed to keep those nuclear missiles aimed at the Rooskies until Gorbie cried "Uncle"..."
Well......are you sure of that? Up here you can buy fake cell phones to impress the young ladies in traffic. The higher-quality up-market fakes have a little button you press, then in 20 or 30 seconds it rings as if you have a call, you can escape lengthy and boring conversations with clients or relatives. Maybe Gorby was intimidated by those big tubes and all the buttons and lights and all, but some of us are made of sterner stuff.
Related topic...Did you know that the main area for US Navy torpedo testing is in an area called "Whiskey Golf", in the Gulf of Georgia? They post warnings when they test, and all traffic is prohibited. One time, I had landed on a small island in a corner of this zone and was snoozing on the beach after a bite to eat when two "chase" boats came up very close at high speed, one launched a zodiac with a boarding crew and invaded my very Canadian island. Lacking as I did at the time an RPG, and quickly calculating the relative masses involved (38 lb kayak vs. 2 100+ft steel boats) it was clear that a direct frontal assault carried a risk of loss or capture, and as I had heard the stories and hold my virginity dear, I formed a strategy of paddling backward very slowly while hurling invective and appropriate gestures. Just think, you as a US taxpayer got to pay for this. In the end, though, after all the threats and intimidation, they took it in good humour and did not shoot me.
Re; Censorship; Tomato, you know that you can count on me to the very point of minor inconvenience to defend your right to post such insensitive drivel as that "mummy in a box" joke, if I could only find the time. In the meantime, could I suggest a bit of background cultural reading;
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....salud, eh?......marcos.......(Macros on the Winspear thread ;-)
....jcboatwright, take a bow.....
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