Exhaust Bearings

[Short Game]

When we were approaching the equator, the Shellbacks ordered some Pollywogs to set an Equator Watch. They made phony binoculars from two conical DC plugs with two six inch by one inch iron garbage weights on the front as lenses with which to look out for the line.

None of the Shellbacks' ideas for torturing the Pollywogs worked out so well. Out of an eighty man crew, there were only eight Shellbacks. The Pollywogs took over the boat and stole all the stuff they made, including the garbage and garbage chute. The ship's manacles, all hair cutting equipment, and their phony 16 pound binoculars disappeared too. I can't say how much it helped that the skipper was a Pollywog. Nobody wanted to show up in New Zealand without their hair.

We let them have their ceremony. Kissing the Royal Baby's belly was about the worst thing that happened to us. Walking the plank on the equator is a complete joy.

 

[k0ua]

More than one new phone technician has been sent back to the Central Office for a bucket of "dial tone"

James K0UA

 

[Iowachild]

One spring when we were shifting to daylight savings time, I had an apprentice convinced we would have to come in to work Sunday morning to adjust all the photocells on the plant lights for the "extra" hour of daylight!:laughing::laughing:

 

[nspec]

Any ship guys ever been asked to grease the relative bearings?

 

[Short Game]

Anyone can tell that is a gag. It's keeping the true bearings greased that matters.

 

[cannarella]

For those of you with a nice cab you can sit in you may need to replace the windshield wiper clutch one day.

 

[droptop]

A young woman that I worked with returned from a romantic weekend in Canada with her husband. I told her that she needed to make sure that she exchanged any Canadian money back into US currency soon, because Canadian money expires!!:laughing::laughing::laughing: The next day she called me every name in the book because she had went home and told her husband that too!!:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[Combustix]

5 inches???

They must have small reproduction rods on the west coast...

It was a slight to the engineers. They would call up none to happy

 

[powerpace]

"Go get a coil of Flight Line". For the Marine Wingwipers.
"Go outside and watch for the blue cold front to go over" A blue line designates a Cold Front on a weather map.

 

[gengine]

In the army it was sending the privates to supply for a prick e-8. They would goto supply, the e-5 (sergeant) would send him to a staff sergeant (e-6), who would send him to a sergeant first class (e-7), who would send him to the first sergeant or master sergeant (e-8's), and get the response yelled in their face, "YOU FOUND ONE! NOW EHAT DO YOU WANT!?!?!"