A squid is what other military people call sailors. Jarhead is a marine, sandcrab is a coastie, dogface is a soldier and flyboy is airforce. Within the Navy, you have brown shoes, black shoes, seebees and bubble heads. It's a whole new world of words.
Angel: You know, I killed my actual dad. It was one of the first things I did when I became a vampire. Wesley: I hardly see how that's the same situation. Angel: Yeah. I didn't really think that one through.
'Lineage'
Spike's Bitches 26: Damn right I'm impure!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
SailAweigh - Oct 14, 2005 4:02:50 pm PDT #8580 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
SuziQ - Oct 14, 2005 4:07:37 pm PDT #8581 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Thanks Sail. I knew you would understand. When I married into the Navy I also had to learn how to talk the alphabet. Of course, thinking up an example right now isn't happening, but I'm sure you know what I mean.
amych - Oct 14, 2005 4:07:42 pm PDT #8582 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Huh. All my squid dogface jarhead military friends call air force "Wing Weenies".
amych - Oct 14, 2005 4:08:26 pm PDT #8583 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
talk the alphabet
whiskey tango foxtrot?
SuziQ - Oct 14, 2005 4:09:56 pm PDT #8584 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
There is that amych, but also learning to know what something like WESTPAC means, and NAVCOM. There are other longer ones, but my mind, she is gone.
amych - Oct 14, 2005 4:12:50 pm PDT #8585 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
eww. And I thought IT was bad, with the gratuitous made-up language.
Deena - Oct 14, 2005 4:24:07 pm PDT #8586 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Hee. After posting it I thought you might think I was asking for TMI.
I can't believe I forgot to say.
YAY, sj! I'm glad you were able to talk to your professor about your concerns and that she was so supportive.
Steph L. - Oct 14, 2005 4:24:54 pm PDT #8587 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
They got most of the chips, but I had black raspberry chip and coconut chip.
Nummy. I love coconut chip. (I'm a Philistine who isn't crazy about black raspberry chip -- I don't hate it, but I also don't prefer it. Mostly b/c I like raspberry as sorbet [not made with milk] instead of ice cream.)
No pumpkin?
erikaj - Oct 14, 2005 4:31:19 pm PDT #8588 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yum...Coconut ice cream? I love most things coconut, but have not had that!
SailAweigh - Oct 14, 2005 4:32:06 pm PDT #8589 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Try FAIRRECONRON TWO. Or NAMTRAGRUDET 1008. Of course, you always have CINCUSNAVEUR and CINCSUBLANTFLEET and I could go on and on forever. We loves the acronyms, yes we do.
amych, I'd forgotten wing weenies! To be honest, there's always more than one nickname for any service, and it often varies from service to service. Even within the Navy, we have our different branches. And then each rate has it's own nicknames. I was a "tweet" or "twidget." Jet engine mechs were "suck and blows," machinist's mates were "metal benders" or "pipe fitters," electrician's mates were "wire chasers." We could never call anything by it's real name. And it wasn't something you learned overnight, either.