Speaking as a former drunken sailor...

[MindPilot]

I resent being compared to republicans who are incapable of fiscal restraint.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. I know what you mean.

As a former shithouse rat, I find the Larry Craig comparisons disgustin.

[Swamp Rat]

6. Right on!!

[Mabus]

11. and as the Third Antichrist predicted by Nostradamus

I find all the comparisons to members of BushCo and/or religious extremists fighting words!

[Cha]

28. You've had quite the

incarnation!

[Sparkly]

2. As a former petulant child

I resent being compared to the preznit.

[AnneD]

As a one armed paper hanger...

I resent being compared to republicans when it comes to diverting public contract fund money to my own pockets.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. "Oh, what should we do with a drunken sailor?"

[JuniperLea]

5. Why, you put him in a long boat until he's sober, of course!

Hooray, heave-ho and up she rises!

[Hekate]

32. Shave his belly with a rusty razor...Keel hawl him until he's sober... All would be great for Dubya

Ear-ly in the mornin'.

Hekate

[mike_c]

4. as a practising pretentious asshole...

...I resent comparisons to the monkey king.

[fenriswolf]

7. understandable

as drunken sailors can only spend whats in their pockets, drunken sailors do not spend what is in everyone else's pockets.

[MindPilot]

9. True, dat.

:toast: :beer:

[Canuckistanian]

34. Yep.

A true drunken sailor could only DREAM of the riches now currently being spent on corporate whores and "dogs of war".

And it all comes out of your pocket.

[lpbk2713]

8. As a boomer ...

I can most certainly say AWOL Monkey-Boy is NOT representative of the fruits of the Greatest Generation. Not even close.

[Mabus]

10. Here's to all the former drunken sailors on board

:rofl:


K&R

[Buck Turgidson]

21. What about us currently drunken former sailors?

n/t

[Mabus]

22. This one's for you

:beer:

Now hoist away matey!

[Pierogi_Pincher]

47. And how's about a currently inebriated daughter of a formely

sober sailyor? I think I got that right. P_P

[Mabus]

49. lol

You bet! Here's one for you :beer: and here's to all of us :toast:


I thought you were originally talking about evlbstrd's daughter (evlspwn) then I realized I've never seen her inebriated. She doesn't mind watching us throw back the brews though.

[evlbstrd]

12. As a drunken former sailor...

...I forgot what I was going to say.

[Chovexani]

13. What did you do ear-ly in the morning?

:yoiks:

[Chulanowa]

15. Shaved 'is belly with a rusty razor...

and put 'im in bed with the cap'n's daughter?

:P

[Rageneau]

14. When I was a drunken sailor, I only spent all the money I HAD.

Republicans are spending all the money your children and grandchildren WOULD HAVE had.

[RufusTFirefly]

16. Speaking as the kind of guy you'd want to sit down and have a beer with...

... I take offense at the suggestion that Bush is one too.

[DemoTex]

17. I'll drink to that!

I'm a former Army pilot who flew Navy aircraft in Viet Nam from NAF Cam Ranh and was considered an honorary Naval Aviator. I lived with the Navy, ate with the Navy, drank with the Navy, and caroused with the Navy on our corrosion control missions to Cubi Point (Olongopo City).

[Canuckistanian]

19. "Corrosion control"? Is that a euphemism?

I'm so not hip to the Navy lingo.

[DemoTex]

24. Depends. Euphemism with respect to our livers ..

But, no. We were required to cycle our six (actually seven, counting the training aircraft) Lockheed SP-2E Neptunes through the Navy's corrosion control program at Subic Bay at the rate of about one a month. We rotated crews for a little off-the-books R&R, and we always carried a dozen or so enlisted men and officers from the battalion (5 companies from the Delta to the DMZ). It was a three day boondoggle that we were usually able to stretch into a week or so. Every day away from our Laos missions on the Ho Chi Minh Trail was another day of LIFE. Life with drink and sex, as it were.


DemoTex (1970)

[Canuckistanian]

27. Oh, cool. Thanks for the pic.

That must have been an ....intense part of your life. The highest highs, the lowest lows.

You've seen a lot more of the world than I have.

[DemoTex]

31. Teaser pic .. Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos.

[Canuckistanian]

33. That reminds me

I saw a National Geographic story about a jet pilot who had to bail out after having mechanical problems.

He parachuted down and got caught in a tree overlooking the Ho Chi Minh trail. He was there for two days.
He said that he had only a monkey for company as he was wedged in between branches. At night, he used to watch the Viet Cong convoys as they moved beneath him, taking care to be quiet.

He was finally rescued by a BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Fellow) helicopter with a "jungle penetrator" winch device.

I still remember that story after reading it in the '60's.

[DemoTex]

36. Lucky Ducky

Most of my friends shot down over the Trail (crypto-spooks like me) are probably still alive in Russia. We were way too valuable for the Hanoi prison system.

[Canuckistanian]

41. That's some pretty radical statement

Viet Nam vets still held in Russian jails? For what purpose?

[DemoTex]

44. It is not a radical statement ...

It reflects a well known fact from the Viet Nam war. Top-Secret Crypto pilots/crew were shipped north to the USSR (back then). Why would they want to admit it now? After torturing our guys? Where do you think Cheney learned his secrecy? His tactics?

[DemBones DemBones]

37. Hey, Mac, I drank with the Navy at Cubi Point, too, although

at the time I was only drinking Shirley Temples. My dad used to take us up to the CPO Club at Cubi because they made great steak sandwiches and had a great view of Subic Bay.

It was interesting being a kid living in Olongapo. One drunken sailor bought a 21 foot python for 5 pesos (that included having a Filipino sit on it in the back of his jeep) and took it home to his not-amused wife. Then they kept it in a big outdoor cage on base and we could see it every time we walked from school to the library. It ate live chickens, but not often enough to satisfy our bloodthirsty hearts.

The French ships leaving Vietnam in 1956 all came through Subic and I remember seeing the French sailors wandering around as well as the ships. Going down to see new ships was one of our major entertainments. Little did we know our government would be fools enough to try to do what the French gave up on.

"Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga."

[DemoTex]

39. Kid living in Olongapo? Jeebus!

1st trip to Olongapo I changed money and crossed the bridge. The second bar on the right was the Mexico Bar. A beautiful woman on the front porch of the Mexico Bar yelled: HEY, MAC!.

What could I do? She obviously knew me!

[Buck Turgidson]

40. Remember Marilyn's Number 1 Club?

Ah, good times. Good times.

[DemoTex]

43. Vaguely ..

I better remember the tailhook simulator in the basement of the Cubi "O" club. I am one of the few non-Navy types with my name on the plaque for catching the wire.

[DemBones DemBones]

46. When I lived there, it was "Hey, Joe!" but that was

yelled at men, women, and children. Everyone would flash us the victory sign, too. This was so soon after the war that everyone loved Americans, except the Huks and Senator Recto.

When you're nine and ten, you don't know what hookers are -- or we didn't in the mid-Fifties, at least -- and I just vaguely recall some bars with loud music and people milling around. We were aware of sailors getting drunk but nobody I knew had parents who drank to excess. I think everybody's parents partied more there because money went a lot further. We always had a live-in maid, on a chief's pay, we ate steak all the time, our parents went to the club a lot at night, and sometimes took us for lunch or early supper. Fat City! The hookers may have been more discreet back then, too. I'm sure there were also plenty of hookers in every place we were stationed stateside, but I wasn't aware of them until I was older.

Subic Bay was actually a great place for kids, especially when we moved into new Capehart housing up on one of the mountainsides. It was beautiful up there and we kids played in all sorts of wonderfully dangerous places in the surrounding rain forest. Then there were the fantastic beaches. It's a paradise.

If only they could get honest government in paradise and do something to raise people out of poverty. Filipino friends here with family back in the P.I. say it was a very bad move to end their contract to host American bases. I thought it was going to be at the time. Civilians in military towns never realize how much money the military is pumping into their economy until the base closes and the money dries up.

[PsN2Wind]

45. Hi DemoTex

Recently saw a patch for "200 missions over Shit River". Would look good on the old A2 (or G1 if you wore Navy flight gear)..

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. Speaking as a former drunken marine...

How come the drunken sailors always seemed to have more money than we did?

[scarletwoman]

20. Because drunken sailors have a way cool theme song.

Think about it: "From the halls of Montezuma" -- who the fuck is Montezuma? "From the shores of Tripoli" -- where the hell is Tripoli?

Compare that to: "What do you do with a drunken sailor?" -- EVERYONE knows what you do with a drunken sailor!

It's the wisdom of the Invisible Hand!

(or something -- I'm just a drunken daughter of former sailor...)

:silly:
sw

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. The bar-girls in Japan knew what to do with a drunken sailor.

"You buy me one drink?"

I even felt sorry for the squids on occasion.

Gotta agree on the theme song.

I still cringe when I hear it.

[scarletwoman]

25. Bar girls EVERYWHERE know what to do with drunken sailors.

Sisterhood is powerful!

:D
sw

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

26. Indeed they do. Bless 'em all.

One of them was able to unburden me of my much unwanted virginity.

[scarletwoman]

29. In my (long ago) youth, I did my best to do my part.

:D

sw

[DemoTex]

42. Ergo, "Saigon Tea."

Many a soldier bought a cup of Saigon tea and a knee rub on Tu Do Street ... to their ultimate disappointment. Some few scored.

[Lisa]

30. And surely referring to this administration as "a bunch of clowns" horrifies actual clowns ...

After all, they mean well -- unlike Bush and Co. And they undergo rigorous training and apprenticeship -- to gain admission to their profession requires talent, not nepotism or political favors, like so many Bush appointees.

[MindPilot]

35. Whoa!! Five recs?!

A round all around!! Drinks are on me!!











No really, the drinks are ON me...I tripped over the bar again.

[Joanie Baloney]

38. Silly Sailor....

That's what you get for raising the bar!

And, I know what I'm going to do with a certain drunken sailor. He just won't know when!

:evilgrin:

:loveya:

[Solon]

48. This administation spends money like a coke fiend uses a credit card...

to replace the Ferrari he wrapped around the a pole the night before.