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"!

I have two that I heard alot....

Read the @#$@#$ question, read the @#$@#$@ answers

and

You get what you inspect, not what you expect

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**.

"Take that AN slash pencil and shove it up your AN slash a&&"

"What are they going to do? Take away your birthday?"

and my two favorite technical terms that I tend to use every single day:

"FM" and "1 RCH"

Mine was from within the system......"Old OT's never die....They just 8-2-0"

Old favorite...SOFAR LOFAR ain't gone too far

Here's another similiar saying from SNI '69:

"OMAR-(the God of LOFAR)don't go SOFAR..."

Does anyone recall what OMAR is the acronymn for?

One more.." when a senior and a junior have a personality conflict, the senior has a personality and the junior has a conflict"

From Cdr Porter's office: In God we trust, all others we track.