Posted on 01/11/2014 10:20:23 AM PST by nickcarraway
That’s true, people can be ingeniously evil. I can assure you of this though, they’re not fooling God.
Anyone who has ever lived in Oklahoma will tell you just how tasty snake meat is. I love rattlesnake chili.
Hey, don’t be so hard on him...after all, how would he get around the house any other way?
LOL
Geek.
;)
That is the one thing that keeps me going (and reasonably sane) in the midst of so much unpunished evil.
Street food in Olongapo was an adventure. Never could be sure what you were getting in your barbecue
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Ah Olangapo....
Exit Subic Bay Naval Base, cross the ‘$hit River’ and arrive in downtown Olangapo....
With the urchins, street vendors, and hundreds of saloons, and young ladies eagerly awaiting the arrival of young sailors they could talk to and try to give them a little piece of ‘home’ Naturally, for a price.
When people say ‘How can you eat that’? I often wonder (probably better off not knowing) what it was I really may have been eating when purchasing from street vendors in many sordid ports of the Far East. Oh yes, musn’t forget T-Town just a little bit South of San Ysidro.
Enough local brew and all is possible.
Didn’t ‘they’ used to say “To a hungry man; a bottle of hot sauce makes a pile of Horse Apples tasty, or at least somewhat edible”?
While I don’t know about the Horse Apples, there certainly weren’t any stray dogs or cats to be seen in Olongapo. :=)
True enough and you would think a city/area so ‘dirty’ yet fairly remote would have a few bats or rats running around???
Ever eat the ‘fried squid’ on the street corners in Yokosuka or other Japanese ports? Tasty but Who knows what??
Were the ‘dog and pony’ shows still in practice while you were there?
Interesting if nothing else.
I only spent a day or two in Yokosuka and barely left the ship. Never saw or even heard of dog and pony shows. Since I did my Westpac in late 1972, I may have missed some of the good stuff.
I kill me sometimes.
Sorry, the D&P shows were in Olangapo...
I was Homeported in Yokosuka 60-62 on an LST and an APA prior that with a few Westpacs.
From what I understand the WP way of life quickly disintegrated when the yen went down from 360 - along about, if not, the same time Okinawa went back to Japanese control.
Like they say, all ‘good’ things come to an end. The Navy no longer has Chiefs initiations, no more ‘pinning’ on ones rate, no more Equator initiations....I understand that crossing the Int Date Line had a formal initiation involved but that was gone by the time I first went over in ‘57
Gross does not even come close to describing this. I would never ever buy any kind pizza from them, not even a cheese pizza. Just the thought of what may have been touching there hands grosses me out.
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