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Old Master

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Only Tasmanians would cut square windows in the sides of an old sailing ship.:lol: I'll bet you have screen doors in your submarines...:D

Hey, what is this stuff about "birdies?" I already know what a bleedin' seagull looks like, mate, :bash: ...I want to see some photos of the "birdies"...oi oi oi...:rad:

I just got finished watching a program on public TV about the giant crocs of Australia. :popcorn: They were on the Adelaide River, and at some station in the outback. Man, that was one big reptile! The 22 ft. croc eluded them, but it's footprint was bigger than Rosie O'Donnell's butt...and that's big!

(By the way, my friend, that is a great looking old ship! Absolutely magnificent...I'll bet the master's stateroom looks like the back end of my Sprinter, which shows they had good taste in decor back then, when ships were made of wood and the men were made of steel...as opposed to today, when...etc.)
 

Altered Sprinter

Happy Little Vegemite
Only Tasmanians would cut square windows in the sides of an old sailing ship.:lol: I'll bet you have screen doors in your submarines...:D

Hey, what is this stuff about "birdies?" I already know what a bleedin' seagull looks like, mate, :bash: ...I want to see some photos of the "birdies"...oi oi oi...:rad:

I just got finished watching a program on public TV about the giant crocs of Australia. :popcorn: They were on the Adelaide River, and at some station in the outback. Man, that was one big reptile! The 22 ft. croc eluded them, but it's footprint was bigger than Rosie O'Donnell's butt...and that's big!

(By the way, my friend, that is a great looking old ship! Absolutely magnificent...I'll bet the master's stateroom looks like the back end of my Sprinter, which shows they had good taste in decor back then, when ships were made of wood and the men were made of steel...as opposed to today, when...etc.)
Hello Mate
Just answered the other thread about weather up your end but the interest seems to be in My end of climatic control/ I made a note you guys have been watching to much of Steve Irwin poor guy he's gone to the sky now but his daughter Bindi shes real gold and so's her mom.
Of course that ship has square holes majestically it has to match the square rig of the sail only the French had round holes :lol:
There is a wooden boat festival down here at the moment so old boats are abound, I
ll get some shots at the docks when the fence comes down. I refuse to pay 15 bucks just to look at some old leaking tub and being pushed by the crown into the watery waters surrounding them boats the HM Bark Endeavor is here too but it's out on the prowl today plying the waters for pirates and French bound intruders.
It's a public holiday I forgot so I'm stuck at home looking out for Janene as shes got a bug real bad,.
Seriously how bad is the weather at your end New York or parts of it declared a state OF emergency LAST NIGHT Australian TIME. I'm THINKING WHEN THAT THAWS. THERE WILL BE AN ALMIGHTY FLOOD GOING BACK FOR MILES INTO THE WHERE EVER IT IS AS ITS SO FLAT.
Good place to send a few crocks that would sort out the riff Raff at your end plus a few up into LA as well sort out the psychedelic mutters.
Richard
 
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Altered Sprinter

Happy Little Vegemite
Tar and Cement

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The town that I came from was quite and small
We played in the meadows where the grass grew so tall
In Summer the lilacs would grow every where
The laughter of Children would float in the air.

As I grew older I had to roam
Far from my family, far from my home
Into the city, where lives can be spent
lost in the shadows of tar and cement.

And every night I'd sit alone and learn
what loneliness meant
Up in My vision room above the world
Of tar and cement.

Each day I'd wake up and look at the sky
Think of the meadows where I used to lie
Then I'd remember all that's gone
You're in the city, you better push on
Get what you came for, before it's too late
Get what you came for, the meadows can wait.

Many years latter tired at last
I headed for home to look for my past
I looked for the meadows, there wasn't a trace
Six lane hi-ways had taken their place
Where were the lilacs and all that they meant
Nothing but acres of tar and cement
Yet I can see it there so clearly now
Where has it gone?
Yes I can see it so clearly now
Where has it gone

Where are the meadows? (Tar and Cement)
Where are the Lilacs? (Tar and Cement)
And where is the tall grass? (Tar and Cement)
The laughter of Children? (Tar and Cement)
Nothing but acres (tar and Cement)
........................
"Just listen to the message of a yesterdays dreaming"
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Verdelle Smith

'Cincinnati Blues'



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'Beauty is not in the face'
'Beauty is a light in the heart'
 
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Old Master

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Geez...Richard...you are a continual source of surprises. Yep, if you drive north (to the right in the photo) on the pictured freeway, I live about three minutes up, in what used to be a nice residential area. Or, well within "Ground Zero" as the old Soviet missle aimers would say. :eek: :eek:
But not by choice, believe me...but that's another story for another web site.

The poem...is that your work? It does tell my story. I left for the U. S. Navy in 1963...it was a nice, small town. Returned twenty-five years later...tar, concrete, potholes, crime...the whole sheebang. :cry:
 

Altered Sprinter

Happy Little Vegemite
Geez...Richard...you are a continual source of surprises. Yep, if you drive north (to the right in the photo) on the pictured freeway, I live about three minutes up, in what used to be a nice residential area. Or, well within "Ground Zero" as the old Soviet missle aimers would say. :eek: :eek:
But not by choice, believe me...but that's another story for another web site.

The poem...is that your work? It does tell my story. I left for the U. S. Navy in 1963...it was a nice, small town. Returned twenty-five years later...tar, concrete, potholes, crime...the whole sheebang. :cry:
Hi John
That's the surprise of targeting the 'Cincinnati blues' man thats one huge lump of tar and cement.
I did look at the back of the hills:thumbup: where trees are abound:thinking:
The poem is actually both poetic and very much true to many who have traveled through time looking back on roots.
It was a one off hit wounder in the sixties written and sung by Verdelle Smith , quite often when writing as a start point It's not unusual to for me to alter a line or two , in the above I state vision room above, she actually said rented room above, my interpretation works best as its a visionary thought as to the past events, real or imaginary.
Richard
 

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Happy Little Vegemite
Being in one of those moods with nothing particular to do as the threads are quite, I thought I'd send a Pm to the "Old Master"

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'Ship To Shore"
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Oscar Victor Echo Romeo :professor:
Romeo India Charlie hotel Alpha Romeo Delta.

 
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Old Master

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:clapping: Romeo Oscar Golf Echo Romeo - Yoke Oscar Uniform Romeo - Mike Sierra Golf - Mike Alpha Tango India Echo.

As far as the flag signals, etc., using my long years of Naval training and experience, I was able to read all the above signals. (Plus the fact that each signal has it's letter printed underneath :lol:

Now I'm coming up with one for you (and anyone else who wants to participate.) :cheers:
 

Altered Sprinter

Happy Little Vegemite
:clapping: Romeo Oscar Golf Echo Romeo - Yoke Oscar Uniform Romeo - Mike Sierra Golf - Mike Alpha Tango India Echo.

As far as the flag signals, etc., using my long years of Naval training and experience, I was able to read all the above signals. (Plus the fact that each signal has it's letter printed underneath :lol:

Now I'm coming up with one for you (and anyone else who wants to participate.) :cheers:
Now were in for it, the master of the Ship has taken command! Batten down the hatches Me mate's, there's a storm brewing on the horizons
I'm going down under, will resurface when the game begins
Richard

 
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sikwan

06 Tin Can
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Your o's got me confused with the Da's and not the Dit's, until I decided to reverse them. I stopped at ahoy. :laughing:
 

Old Master

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Just for kicks, the following are some terms used by U. S. Navy sailors (I don't know about the other guys services.)

General slang:

Swab: A mop, or slang for sailor
A dead horse: Advance pay
Bubblehead: Submariner
Gedunk: Candy, soda pop, potato chips, etc.
Jarhead: Navy slang for a U. S. Marine
Secure: To close down, i.e. "Now secure from General Quarters!"
Clamp down the weather decks: Swab, or mop, the outside decks on a ship
GQ: Battle stations; General Quarters
Pollywog: One who has not crossed the Equator
Shellback: One who has crossed Equator and been initiated
Zeroes: Officers
The Goat Locker: Chief Petty Officers quarters aboard ship
Birdfarm: Aircraft carrier
Sewerpipe: Surface sailor's name for a Submarine
Target: Submariner's name for a Surface ship
Deck Ape: Junior sailor assigned to deck forces

Nicknames for Specific Navy Ratings (a job, an MOS, or a career path).

Weatherguesser: Meteorologist, or weatherman
Stewburner: Cook
Quills: Ships secretary, or admin specialist
Pecker checker: Hospital Corpsman
Sparks: Radioman
Ping jockey: Sonarman
Boats: Boatswain's Mate; a deck force supervisor
A "twiget" rhymes with midget: Anyone dealing with very specialized electronics
Flags: Signalman

Grand Prize: :tongue:
 
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Altered Sprinter

Happy Little Vegemite
That's not fair I'm not a Yank
If your trading off my Sprinter then can I guess a few? or does it have to be all the questions answered.
I know what a dead horse is, It' an Australian meat pie with sauce
cause when we order it we say I'll have a fly with dead horse
meaning the meat content does not the exceed the weight of a fly and a dead horse is the horses blood:laughing:
Serious all questions or just the ones we know
Keeping the thread alive
Richard
PS define terms , old or new.
And while were at it what's the Devils Run
And don't cheat either cause, I have you pinged too
As for the one that has me bluffed? but I'll work it out is A "Twiget" rhymes with midget, that reminds me of Twiggy but she was a fridget.
 
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Old Master

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Devil's Run...is that a naval term, nautical term?

I'll take a wild guess...it's the one day per year Tasmanian women are permitted to chase Tasmanian men around with a club, with those unlucky men caught required to marry? :bash:

Yanks used to call it Sadie Hawkins Day. It's not that way anymore, however...nothing so quaint and primitive. Now the women just lie back and become impregnated by the men, then give the men most of their welfare money in exchange for some snort and a little weed. And the children?...off somewhere, doing something...who knows?

Am I chasing rabbits around the thread? :cry:
 
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Altered Sprinter

Happy Little Vegemite
Hi John
No serious I put the question in to sort of keep up some sidewinding interest
'Devils Run' is an old navy term, but used also in civilian terminology most likely because of the two being similar as they are as to the use, no . no. you have to check on that.
Nothing to do with the opposite either , hint worst job than sewer pipe.
Richard
 

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Happy Little Vegemite
John
You sneak I didn't see that you adjusted the questions! well there are differences, not much between forces. I was going to put them ! The answers in to-nite , would have about three quarters right, the one that had me, was twiget? just couldn't think of that one, and wouldn't have.
Dam, it's how you did it 'twigit we call it twig it or twig it up spook or twig up the soup:clapping:
Sewerpipe = long drop sort of the same thing, in the lower ranks it means sound off targeting ......unforeseen target:bounce: mid quarter decks =incoming, top of the deck officers salute fire in the hold army thing but it's a joke between Admiralties down to Able Seaman
As for Pecker checker thats dead right, you'd have to be a drophead to join the Navy, six months out to see the world, when all you see is the sea.
I like the term Hospital Corpsman cause it would be dead after that long out of service :lol: now I fully understand what decommissioning and recommissioning means I mean if the big Mo was reselected to perform in service again I'm sure Cher' would be first in.:tongue:
Another hint to Devils run and it is a US Navy term, below water line down in the bilges:rolleyes:
 

Old Master

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I think, no...I KNOW somebody is deleting my posts. I posted the following on...Saturday night, I believe...today it's not here. Anyway...

Richard...my mind is completely blank on "Devil's Run." You did say it is a nautical term, I believe, and it seems to me I've heard it before...but I give up in utter frustration (and I refuse to cheat!)

Okay, one more riddle for you (or anyone else interested) and then we'll stop "one-upping" each other:

What was my job in the Navy? (and this description relates more to shipboard life than at a shore base.)

"The crew maintained a love-hate relationship with me. They loved to complain about my work product, but I was the one guy everybody wanted to know." What was my job?
 
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Altered Sprinter

Happy Little Vegemite
Hi John
Yeah I saw you replying to the thread , waited and waited, then you disappeared and no thread? That's happened to me a few times on another thread same thing, maybe it's a time out limit.

OK no cheating Devils run! is the longest continuous plank seam to tar, which is why its right down in the bilges, a nasty job for any one, be you sailor or in civilian shipwright trade.but it was a US Saying in the Navy.
Work place relationship! I'll think on that during the day I've ruled out the Chaplin because some are limited to see, It's not the cook even though that's a love hate relationship , Maybe the quarter master they have ultimate control to the key for after hours happy hour on the Rum Patrol! No I know the most revered position in the ship is the chief Petty officer he runs the ship and even tells the captain what to do, this guy rocks:rad:
Any other hints.
Richard
 

sikwan

06 Tin Can
I think, no...I KNOW somebody is deleting my posts. I posted the following on...Saturday night, I believe...today it's not here. Anyway...
Hi John
Yeah I saw you replying to the thread , waited and waited, then you disappeared and no thread? That's happened to me a few times on another thread same thing, maybe it's a time out limit.
Sorry guys. I was working on the forum database and I didn't think it necessitated a shutdown, so I left it up. It was a about a 5-10 second downtime Saturday night sometime. Next time I'll make sure no one is online creating a message, etc. before I shutdown the forum or at least I'll make an announcement prior to the shutdown. :bash:

Seek
 

Altered Sprinter

Happy Little Vegemite
Sorry guys. I was working on the forum database and I didn't think it necessitated a shutdown, so I left it up. It was a about a 5-10 second downtime Saturday night sometime. Next time I'll make sure no one is online creating a message, etc. before I shutdown the forum or at least I'll make an announcement prior to the shutdown. :bash:

Seek
Off with his head, I saw the flickering too ,now I know I'm not dreaming:tongue:
Thanks Seek
Richard
 

Old Master

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Thanks, Seekie! (Actually I thought I was going nuts.)

Okay, Richard...yes, I had actually heard the term before and I now remember hearing it defined sometime or other. Just a piece of trivia picked up in the mess, perhaps, since I'm sure none of my ships had a Devil's Run. I was on a pre-WWII destroyer escort, but no Devil's Run on there, even. So, you got me!

I actually was in food service, Richard. I should have given more hints, but I couldn't without giving it away. Anyone who liked an afterhours pint of ice cream, a can of mixed nuts, anyone who wanted a couple extra eggs-over-easy in the morning, or anyone with a coffeepot in his shop or office wanted to know the cook!

But you were right at the last...I cooked about ten years, then got into mess management. In our Navy a guy reaches the rank of CPO, just like yours. But then we go two ranks beyond: Senior Chief, and then Master Chief. Now you know where I got my name: Old (my age and sometimes state of mind,) Master (my Navy rank.) :cheers: Once a guy reaches senior rank he would run the large Navy messes. I ran the largest military dining facility under one roof in the Department of Defense...the Recruit Training Center in Great Lakes, Illinois. Oh well, who cares?

G'day, mate!
 

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