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   PID: Synchronet 3.18c-Win32  Nov 15 2020 MSC 1927   
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   Joe,   
      
    > I tell them that "I never would've passed the physical...due to poor   
   eyesight,   
    JM>  buck teeth, and severe trouble with my feet".   
      
    JM>   Obviously this was in peace time. :)   
      
     Well, I wasn't even 10 when the Vietnam War started.    
      
    JM>   Back in my day sonny, it was "Are you able to breathe on your own?"   
    JM> If yes, then you were in.   
      
     I would've been 4E and 4F -- Even if there was a war, don't come...and   
   forget about enlisting. :P   
      
    JM>   The Nimitz is a carrier.  The other two sound like subs.   
      
     They were. I had my first hoagie (submarine sandwich) on a submarine at    
   the former Naval Air Station in Key West over 50 years ago.   
      
    > ... Floggings will continue until morale improves.   
      
    JM>    Old Navy saying, I use at work from time to time.   
      
     It keeps them in line, though. :P   
      
    JM>    Back to Pearl Harbour a minute.   
    JM>    I recall a line in the old Barney Miller show where Yamoto (Jack   
    JM> Soo, the Japanese cop) was being kidded about being a pilot there in   
    JM> the Japanese Navy and asked what he thought about that.   
    JM>    He replied, "It seemed like a good idea at the time".   
    JM>    (These lines would never make it on tv today).   
      
     No kidding. No one has a sense of humor anymore.   
      
     It's like my brother...he turned 59 today, but after he snubbed me a   
   couple of weeks ago (and chewed me out) over the birthday card I gave   
   him, I didn't even bother.   
      
     It was a backside sketch from the middle back, down to the middle thigh,   
   of a woman and a man...both butt cheeks and the cracks in all their glory   
   (we are the same from the back side). On the inside, it noted "Thought you   
   could expect some cracks about your age"...and I added "Every booty wanted   
   you to have a happy birthday -- bun appetit!!". He growled "that was uncalled   
   for!!". I wanted to tell him to "Get A Life!!".   
      
     As Roger Rabbit says, "if you don't have a sense of humor, you're better   
   off dead!!". That's why I keep bringing up the story of 3 blind ham radio   
   operators having to direct me out of a hamfest parking lot, and out of a   
   hospital parking deck...because I *CAN* laugh at myself.   
      
   Daryl   
      
   ... There is more to life than increasing speed.   
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