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To: LibWhacker

In the Navy you are referred to as a Wog. If you cross the equator you become a shell back. If you cross the equator at the prime meridian you are a golden shell back. I am a golden shell back.


30 posted on 04/15/2019 7:27:10 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Cool. So you crossed the equator in southern Algeria. I suspect that’s not a place many Americans get to!


31 posted on 04/15/2019 10:48:58 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: central_va

Oops, never mind. I was looking at the Tropic of Cancer on this map, not the equator. I was thinking you must’ve flown over it. But where the heck were you going??? That’s when I spotted the equator and realized my mistake.


32 posted on 04/15/2019 11:30:50 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: central_va

“In the Navy you are referred to as a Wog”

In my day, it was polliwog.

Wog was an uncomplimentary term for a west Asian, coined because limey newspapers didn’t want to print “worthy oriental gentleman” all the time.


34 posted on 04/16/2019 8:40:14 AM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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