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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: CROWMER-FIENNES c. 1450
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:17:28 -0000
References: <AMes6.12$2d7.48@typhoon.nyu.edu>, <gilmore-ED91CB.10393316032001@News>, <3ab2788b.2050924@news.gte.net>


Good show. Mike is quite correct.

C.P.O.'s [Chief Petty Officers], the most valuable men and women in any
Navy, know everything worth knowing.

Obviously, this chop-logic, knee-jerk, prattle and drunken babble by the
goose and his minions ---- especially Doubtfire ---- that anyone who has
ever served in the United States Navy must know such a definition and be
hewing to it ---- is pure unadulterated codswallop and twaddle.

But, we are not surprised. They are desperately grasping at straws ----
perpetually. That's what losers do.

Twaddle is their stock in trade ---- the schlock merchandise peddled
from their little kiosk in the Free Market of Ideas.

Par for the course. Pay it no heed.

Deus Vult.

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum.
--

D. Spencer Hines

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing." -- Attributed to Edmund Burke [1729-1797]

Warriors ---- "There is much tradition and mystique in the bequest of
personal weapons to a surviving comrade in arms. It has to do with a
continuation of values past individual mortality. People living in a
time made safe for them by others may find this difficult to
understand." _Hannibal_, Thomas Harris, Delacorte Press, [1999], p. 397.

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Vires et Honor

"Mike Dana" <> wrote in message
news:...
| On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:39:33 -0500, Phyllis Gilmore <>
| wrote:
|
| >In article <AMes6.12$>, Paul J Gans
| ><> wrote:
| >
| >> I would like to remind readers of these newsgroups that "pogue"
| >> is a US Naval slang term for homosexual. It's usage as such
| >> goes back at least to the First World War.
| >
| >Just as an interesting side note, a retired naval captain of my
| >acquaintance cannot recall ever even hearing the word in her 27 years
in
| >the Navy. But then, unlike a certain person we could name, she is
and
| >has always been an officer and a lady. Perhaps that makes all the
| >difference.
|
| I doubt it. Dad was a CPO (like most non-coms, neither an officer nor
| a "gentleman") on a Sub Tender in the Pacific during the Korean war,
| and he says he's never heard of it, either.
|
| --Mike Dana
| Everett, Washington, U. S. A.
| "If you pound it in, It'll squish out."
| --Tom Barnts, 11 July, 2000




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