On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:48:59 -0700, Bob Terwilliger wrote:

> Carol wrote about clueless AOL newbie Sheldon "Pussy" Katz:
>
>> LOL! I have to admit from reading him over the years, he was indeed an MS
>> (now called CS) and possibly hit E5 level. He's fanciful about many
>> aspects, but there is enough veracity in how he describes the life that he
>> had to have lived it as a cook.
>>
>> You'll also see he knows the limits of how things work and level of
>> knowledge at the ranks so doesn't claim one. After this many years, it
>> doesnt really matter anyways. He did 1-2 tours. There's nothing wrong
>> with that. Not all make it a life and retire from the military.
>
> Well, balance that against the fact that outside of RFC, on a ship's reunion
> website, when he had no reason to believe anyone would find it, Pussy, using
> his address, stated that he had been a "machinist". Add to
> that Pussy's knee-jerk and over-the-top defense of toolmakers, and it seems
> more likely that he was exactly what he stated on that website. (Of course,
> when Bob Pastorio *did* find it, Pussy took his name back off the site. He
> likes his fictional life better than his real life.)
>
> If Pussy was as stupid IRL as on RFC, then he would have had difficulty
> advancing in his rating, so he would have been sent to the Supply Department
> as a Food Service Attendant (a.k.a. "Mess Crank") again and again; that's
> what happens when you don't make rate. No doubt his accumulated years as a
> crank gave him the basis for the hit-or-miss naval culinary knowledge he
> exhibits here.
>
> Bob

'hit-or-miss'? when does he hit?

your pal,
blake