Coming Out of the Closet!
Sorry TSO, not THAT closet!
Since this IS one of the premier phony chasing sites on the web, and confession is good for the soul… I am an Admiral and have been for sometime!
From here on I expect to be treated as a visiting dignitary by you lesser folk.
I considered posting a pix of me in my full regalia, but I couldn’t possibly compete with some already posted here for sheer grandeur.
BTW, a salute is not required.
Category: Administrative, Geezer Alert!, Navy
let me be the first to say it: SQUID
Stacy0311 #1: That’s Admiral Squid!
So does that mean you’ll be using more appropriate jargon like raising someone’s jib on their poop deck and so forth?
Aw fuck–more khaki assholes floating around here.
That’s all I fuckin need.
(There, does that take you back to your not-so-happy place?)
Claymore #3: Nah, you and TSO seem to have THAT handled. I’m thinking more pirate-like stuff. You know, toss in an Arghhh every once and a while.
TSO makes a lousy squid. He keeps getting port and starboard mixed up and likes to use quotes from Jean Luc Picard thinking they make him sound more “nautical”. I mean seriously, how many sailors drink “Earl Grey, hot.”…can’t be more than ten or fifteen thousand.
This sailor will admit, in public, to drinking Earl Grey at sea regularly.
Take a 24 ounce coffee mug, add boiling water, steep 6 bags of Earl Grey until the mug is black as night. This is my sure-fire recipe to maintain consciousness (if not actual competence) during your third consecutive week of five-and-dime rotation watches on the bridge.
Does tend to make a fella a mite jittery, though.
Ah–skimmer puke. You have room to stow all that shit.
The most imaginative way I saw someone stay awake in NPS or on the boat was to SNORT No-Doz. That was impressive.
I prefer pond scum as an appellation myself. Went thru FTB school with a bubblehead (Polaris).
As a geezer AND an Admiral Sir will do nicely.
Congratulations. By the way, weren’t you recently overseeing a brown water navigation course for a National Guard unit in New Jersey?
2-17AirCav #10: You win… And you owe me an adult beverage!
Thank you. I would like to thank the Academy and all of the little people who made this win possible. The adult beverage is yours. I’ll hold it for you. Let me know when you’re in the Martinsburg area.
Nice! now you just need to hire a young bos’un to pipe you through your front door, when you enter the kitchen, when you leave the bathroom, etc.
“Adm. Ponsdorf, arriving!” *ding ding*
#8 Sparky– I’ve seen that too, except it was mini-thins. O_O
Squidthoughts #13: I tried that. My wife of 37 years said no. So I do it for myself, silently. That works well enough.
My dad, a very smart man with tons of common sense, helped me out with this when I was still in in the early 70’s. Port is the left facing the forward so if just think the meme that you’ve left port you’ve got it. Quite frankly it’s the only way I can figure it out anymore.
Sadly my dad died in the late 90’s as he would have loved participating in blogs like this one.
#6 Claymore Says:
September 8th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
TSO makes a lousy squid. He keeps getting port and starboard mixed
Zero, An Admiral in West Virginia? not to put too fine a point on it but isn’t that like being an emperor of an Oil Derick? Or being the mayor of a town with one person?
John Donovan will not be happy with you for trying to steal his site’s name, Admiral Zero.
Did you hear about the “tragedy” at Norfolk? Yeah, a SAILOR got sucked under the boardwalk by a WAVE!
Could that sailor have been our “Admiral” in question? He was heard to say, “Spread them oars and let me drop anchor, bitch.”
DHC
As long as you don’t wear that faggotty white uniform with the shorts. 😀