Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
No, Skipper, you couldn’t. You’d have wasted your life aboard ships, pining for the opportunity to soar into the blue skies, and swoop down on our enemies, casting your intense gaze on the targeted position, just to make sure the ordnance made it to the correct location for maximum effect.
We’d have just mired you down in pointless PowerPoint briefing production, then sent you to sea to work for someone who try and eat you for fun, just to stave off competition for themselves int he future, forgetting that one day, they would need you as a department head or XO….
Cheer up, someone seems to have taken pity on you and decided otherwise….
I thought you already had something to do on Saturdays!
I am SO going to tell the CDR
Try not fret to Cap’n. They just didn’t interview the right women, those with more discerning tastes and higher standards…..
Oh, I’m so disappointed. Ya coulda been a SWO eh? I’m a SWO and I’m no great kicks, I’ll tell ya. The women used to flock to me because I had low standards but a decent income. Ahhh, those were the days.
Anyway, you can keep all your hussies because when the big freeze comes I’m gonna know where all the seeds are kept(along with dem big radioactive rats).
Hey Yooper,
I’ve got one of your cd’s.
…those without top careers were deemed most suitable, the Personality and Individual Differences journal reported. The team said women seemed to feel high-flyers would not be good fathers.
I suspect there’s a difference between “attractive” and “suitable…”
Thanks for posting this, Sir, I’ll make sure I DOR on Monday morning!
~Ens Tim
Actually, probably not one of mine. Probably from one of my neighbors. Pretty good if ya ask me but down in the mitten(south of the Big Mac) they tend to have a different type of humor. To each his own I suppose.
There you go, Cap’t….about to have the youngster flush his free leather flight jackets and sunglasses for a hope of more women…..
You know, the more senior you are, the more the up and coming ones listen…
A WHA?! A WHO?! GET OUTTA TOWN! Most respectfully of course.
Yeah, but then you’da been a SWO!!
Black shoe polish is more prevalant in the NEX, Capn. By the way, I hear that Brown shoes are optional now…
Somebody should o’told this to all those “birds” who descended on the Miramar, Oceana, Pensacola, North Island, Jacksonville, and Whidbey O’Clubs every Friday (and sometimes Wednesday)night during the 1970′s and 1980′s!
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OldRetiredChief – Good point!
You could not have been a SWO. No such thing as “Crew rest.” Some of us SWOs shoot down planes for a living, and fly them for fun.
Navigator, don’t forget, “and make sure their hotel/airport doesn’t become a submarine…once
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