On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:36:37 -0500, George Shirley
> wrote:

>BoboBonobo wrote:
>> Goomba wrote:
>>> George Shirley wrote:
>>>
>>>> At least once a week we had SOS (use your imagination), aka chipped
>>>> dried beef on toast, for breakfast in the Navy. That was about up to
>>>> 48 years ago, they probably don't serve it anymore. The other oddity
>>>> was fried bologna, baked beans, and hard boiled eggs for breakfast.
>>>> Only ran into that on one ship I was on. Luckily young men will eat
>>>> about anything so it went over pretty good.
>>>
>>> It took their mind off the abstinence, I imagine?
>>>
>> That, and the incessant masturbation.
>>
>> --Bryan
>You've obviously never been aboard an old destroyer. Fifty men sleeping
>in bunks stacked four high, no privacy and if you're caught wanking you
>get Captain's Mast. Lots easier just to wait for shore leave.

'captain's mast' sounds dicey in itself.

your pal,
blake