The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

82 days on a submarine with NO PORT CALLS sucks.  On the other hand, the food was pretty good.

Funny. My nephew got posted to an L.A. Class boat last month - he's a cook.

[lustindarkness]

82 days on a submarine with NO PORT CALLS sucks.  On the other hand, the food was pretty good.

Funny. My nephew got posted to an L.A. Class boat last month - he's a cook.

Best cooks in the world. If you can make the stuff they get (and can store in that small galley) taste like real food, you can cook anything.

[derspiess]

Okay, so I couldn't help but click on the link "COPS: Woman Faking Injury For Worker's Comp Busted After Sex Romp In Park..." on Drudge. 

Kinda wish I hadn't, though I'm still laughing.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/12/14/bay-areas-womans-sex-act-reveals-workers-comp-fraud/

[derspiess]

Where did this screen-door Polish submarine thing come from? I can't recall.

Actual, real-life events.  Or a joke book, I forget.

[garbon]

Thank you, Delta, for emailing me 30 minutes before boarding that the flight has been delayed. The birds in the terminal are also a nice touch.

On the flip side, thank you, Virgin, for actually taking off ahead of schedule and having a pleasant flight crew. Having an entire row to myself is also making it much more comfortable to get work done.

[AnchorClanker]

Thanks, guys.  Good to be back. 

Arab Spring been keeping you busy?

You have no idea, dude.  I've earned my pay, lol.

[AnchorClanker]

Yeah, it's weird.  The same guys, every hour every day every week every month.  It gets old. 

Oh please, we all know you were on the Carter playing with all the fun snooper stuff off the Levant, translating in between hooka puffs and crosswords back in the guest stateroom that had "VIP INTEL DO NOT KNOCK" on the door.

Again, I wish.  My cousin is a nuke on the USS Carter.  I was on another boat, in another AOR.  Not my cup of tea.  It was an experience, but not one that I care to repeat anytime soon.

Also, my area was CONSTANTLY being sub-parititioned for the VTCs that the Captain insisted on having.  He's LOVES his face time with the flag officers.     I wouldn't mind except it was quite a distraction from, oh, THE MISSION.   

[Admiral Yi]

On a slightly different note Spanky, when did you stop writing in haiku?

[AnchorClanker]

On a slightly different note Spanky, when did you stop writing in haiku?

I still do at times.  Never by design, though.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Also, my area was CONSTANTLY being sub-parititioned for the VTCs that the Captain insisted on having.  He's LOVES his face time with the flag officers.   

Powerpoint, VTC equipment, and high-speed encrypted data links have formed an unholy trinity of military brass mental masturbation.

[Admiral Yi]

Where did this screen-door Polish submarine thing come from? I can't recall.

Invented at the Warsaw shipyard.

[garbon]

Yesterday a hip-hop station was playing back in the day music during the lunch hour. It was all mid-to-late 90s hip-hop and rap.

[Barrister]

Where did this screen-door Polish submarine thing come from? I can't recall.

Invented at the Warsaw shipyard.

Wouldn't that joke work better as the Gdansk shipyard?

[Barrister]

Yesterday a hip-hop station was playing back in the day music during the lunch hour. It was all mid-to-late 90s hip-hop and rap.

I know, I know - it really was bad, wasn't it.

[AnchorClanker]

Best cooks in the world. If you can make the stuff they get (and can store in that small galley) taste like real food, you can cook anything.

Truth.  I can't complain about the food... and really, that's about the only thing they can do for crew morale.