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To: Per-Ling
I understand that I will be mistaken for the Good Humor man during the summer, and for the Waffen SS during the winter.

Yeah. We did look tougher in winter.....

In my entire Navy career, nobody ever explained why "Navy Blue" was actually Black.

6 posted on 04/06/2003 3:21:57 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Polybius
In my entire Navy career, nobody ever explained why "Navy Blue" was actually Black

And, we were always fashionably-correct (not counting the bell-bottoms) because everyone knows it's wrong to wear white after labour day ;0)

7 posted on 04/06/2003 3:23:33 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Some days, it's just not worth gnawing through the straps...)
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To: Polybius
In my entire Navy career, nobody ever explained why "Navy Blue" was actually Black.

Or why our crows looked so much like raptors.

14 posted on 04/07/2003 12:22:12 AM PDT by exDemMom (9 out of 10 bloodthirsty tyrants agree, appeasements WORKS!)
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