Ahoy there my fellow US Navy sailor people.

[oneighty]

Do you remember the phrase?

"I hope to shit in your flat hat"

Did you have a flat hat? Was your ship's name on it?

Did you ever wear it as part of the official uniform (I did not in eight years service).

I wish I had kept mine. Darn it.

Do not let 180 take the helm. Hahahaha

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[Call Me Wesley]

1. I made this for Crazy Guggenheim,

because he once told me this ... But since you mentioned 'helm', you might get a chuckle out of it:

[oneighty]

2. Engine telegraph

I think. Nice. Some minesweepers I have known are subject to the 'eat shit and die' speed. They would fall apart from fatigue.

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[Call Me Wesley]

3. I can only invision

how tough this job has to be.

BTW, there was this writing site you referred to, and I can't find the link. Might I ask if you post the link again?

[oneighty]

4. thenecessarylanguage.com

Wes Dem is sponsoring the site for Joeybee. It can be accessed from my journal.

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[Call Me Wesley]

5. Thank you!

It's much appreciated! :hi:

[oneighty]

6. Whoops

It does not work right now. Wes was having a bit of a problem and is redoing the link. He explains that in the Writing Group

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[Call Me Wesley]

7. Yes, didn't work.

I'll look into the Writing Group. Thank you again!

[oneighty]

9. WesDem

Say it will be a couple of days.

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[Call Me Wesley]

10. I saw it.

This link does work, though:

http://www.awesclarkdemocrat.com/necessarylanguage

[Dangerously Amused]

8. "I hope to shit in your flat hat."

Goodness, oneighty. Can you please explain the phrase? I hope it was not meant literally. :)

[oneighty]

11. The phrase

is actually one meaning roughly "I agree with you" Or perhaps "Yes".

For example; "Hey Smitty are you going ashore tonight?" Smitty would say; "I hope to shit in your flat hat." Meaning "Yes you bet I am".

I was hoping for input from other sailors, but it is likely the flat hat was phased out years ago. It did resemble a woman's hat.

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[Dangerously Amused]

12. Thank you.

You have no doubt prevented nightmares for Dangerously Amused tonight.

[China_cat]

13. My niece is in the Navy.

but she's a Nuke and we know how elitist they are. :patriot:

[oneighty]

14. Good for her

I bet the Navy does not have the Flat Hat any more.

When you say 'Nuke' do you mean she works with the reactors?

Hey China_Cat.

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[China_cat]

15. Yep, she's on one of the carriers

but don't ask me which one...I can never remember.

With any luck she'll be able to parlay this into a nuclear engineering degree. Navy wanted her badly...only potential recruit in over 30 years that scored 100% on the test.

[intrepid_wanderer]

16. IR nuc too...

at least I was a nuc electrician on subs...

never heard of a flat hat... nor the phrase

perhaps it's what we sometimes call a garrison hat? folds flat & can be tucked into the belt??


:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[oneighty]

17. No

It was made of wool and looked much like the blue uniform material in color and texture. It resembled a beret. There was a silk ribbon around the area at the bottom of the hat. On the ribbon in gold letters was 'U.S.Navy', or the ships name.It was flat on the top and folded flat to save space. It was really a nice dress hat. As I said I never wore it and never saw it being worn.

Edit: The flat hat was done away with 1 April 1963. I was able to Google up some old pictures. Unit names on the ribbon was ended in 1941.

An interesting history that flat hat.

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[Spider Jerusalem]

19. Still worn in the Royal Navy (UK)...

as part of junior enlisted dress blues, as far as I know (which really isn't surprising, since we essentially copied our naval uniforms from the Brits).

[China_cat]

18. They still don't allow women on subs.

So my niece is on a carrier and her husband is on a sub.

[cleofus1]

20. avast ye maties...

spent 5 years active duty and never went to sea...but i did get one years sea duty...figure that one out...