Cw mccall, lets do it, to it, just like pruitt used to do it. to it.Sonny Pruit was the name of the character that Claude Akins played on the TV show "Movin' On" in the mid 1970's.
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Cw mccall, lets do it, to it, just like pruitt used to do it. to it.Sonny Pruit was the name of the character that Claude Akins played on the TV show "Movin' On" in the mid 1970's.
Dad, navy, said youse can put a boat on a ship, but not a ship on a boteBoats vs ships.
My father, a WW II tin can sailor who served aboard DD 398 USS Ellet from 1942 'till war's end, explained to me how sailors distinguished boats from ships: boats were launched sideways, and ships were launched straightforward (or backwards).
Reminds me of the Smothers Brothers song/skit: Crabs Walk Sideways and Lobsters Walk Straight.
Sonny Pruit was the name of the character that Claude Akins played on the TV show "Movin' On" in the mid 1970's.
I believe that watertender has answered my question. Must be where I heard the name.
Your Dad is correct, but you know sailors, a nickname for everything. You can call your own ship anything you want , but others better be respectful!Dad, navy, said youse can put a boat on a ship, but not a ship on a bote
Aboard apa 195 uss lenawee during the korean divorce and police action thing, he said her unofficial name was leapin lena, from harold teen's old jalopy, but often got pronounced leakin lena.Your Dad is correct, but you know sailors, a nickname for everything. You can call your own ship anything you want , but others better be respectful!![]()
No Chit?Just so y'all know, the unofficial meaning of facetious is 'full of feces'.
You don't say? Mr. turd you have a magical way of cutting through the bull ….!Just so y'all know, the unofficial meaning of facetious is 'full of feces'.
Is that like the folks from Maaaassachusetts who put R's at the end of every word ending in an A?People in Michigan call the thing between the front seats a council. They say it so wrong they sometimes spell it like I did. Explain that.
Like the 3 wise men showing up in bethlehem in full gear and a big red truck? "They came from a far"Is that like the folks from Maaaassachusetts who put R's at the end of every word ending in an A?
In cold weather they might wear a Kahh-Hot.Is that like the folks from Maaaassachusetts who put R's at the end of every word ending in an A?
Ahhhhh......Diego G.....the "Footprint of Freedom".....don't mess with crabs, chickens or donkeys or the guys with the funny hats, accents and bad teeth will come after you with their little not pads. Had to spend several days on that rock once. The beer smelled and tasted like formaldehyde and it was warm. As for fishing the only thing we saw in the water was barracuda chasing little fish.I was aboard the old Kitty Hawk doing the 87 world cruise. While we lingered around the IO, we anchored off Diego Garcia for a couple of days. It was there that the 45 days caught up with us and steel beach were declared. I was a Chief back then and while everybody else got their beer ration card punched (twice at the same time both opened), the Chiefs got to enjoy our Schlitz beer in the mess. I gave the guy my card, he gave it back and handed me a beer from the yugo can full of ice. Basically we could drink all we wanted. I drank my fill and pirated some of it to take to the guys in the power plant shop. I was popular with them for about two whole days. The next day we checked out some deep sea fishing rigs and caught a few White Sea bass. Good eats. Then departed to sit off the coast of Somalia for a time. I bet old Ordyman replaced us or we him.
We were relieved in late SEP '87......back in San Diego late OCT.....did a pit stop in Perth as a reward for breaking the SORTIE record set back in Nam days. Of course once Desert Storm was in full swing a few years after, that record was crushed.Kitty Hawk got on Gonzo Station in mid to late Jan. By the time Ernest Will began we had done the ditch, sailed the Med and off loaded at Norfolk. My youngest was born while on Gonzo.