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To: Brown Deer

Back in the ‘Old Navy’ we had a saying:

“Only people that whistle aboard ship are Boatswains Mates and CS’ers”.

Guess if you even were to think that today you would get thrown out....

Kind of like a kid drawing the picture of a gun in grade school.


13 posted on 01/19/2014 12:17:00 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 --Because you have your head up your arse doesn't mean you have to have a crappy outlook.)
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To: xrmusn

“Damn a man who whistles!”

Funny...I remember it too, and never gave it much thought.

Only in the last few years did I find out it was an ancient maritime superstition...whistling on board a sailing vessel was thought to encourage high winds and bad weather...


65 posted on 01/19/2014 6:52:34 AM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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