This brings back good memories...in BE&E we were taught the basic saying for these codes....but being in '68...just after the comic characters of Batman and Robin were on tv...some guy in the class came up with this one....
"Batman Ble- Robin On Yonder Gotham Building, Very Good Wayne...Get Superman Next."
That immediately came out of the fog even 44 yrs later.
While on our recent cruise, one of the couples at our dinner table lived in San Diego. Walt was a "tin can snipe" from the old days (50's). I cracked up one evening when he was telling a story about one of his wife's shopping trips in one of their previous cruise port calls. When he was explaining how he got her to leave one of the shops, he said that he had to "drag her ragged ass" out of the store and back to the ship. I haven't heard that phrase in a very long time, and the other couple at our table (retired Ford Motor Co. Exec) had never heard it, and were instantly "flabbergasted". I tried to explain to them that you can take a sailor out of a tin can, but you can't take the tin can out of the sailor. They had never heard that one either.
Try this one Shipmates. "Hope to s*** in your flat hat, it's true."
Then there is this oldie " Cheifs never pass out. Just take naps at the bar."
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.
My favorite comes from boot camp at Great Lakes.
One young recruit asked the company commander if he'd be allowed to go home when his wife had their baby. He said, Son, "You have to be there when the keel is laid, but you don't have to be there for the launching"!
He who enters covered here, shall buy the bar a round of cheer!
I got caught out on that one at Lewes, and it was the only time I was given credit until payday! Cost me over ten dollars! A lot of money for an E4 in 1972!.
How about this one??? What's the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story? A "Fairy Tale starts with "Once uppon a time" and a "SEA Story" starts with "This is no SH**.