Quote for the Day
“In his defense, I’ll say that sometimes, when you’ve been out to sea for a while, cut off from everything, you start to think things that you would never normally do are actually a good idea,” he said. “You do stupid stuff to stay sane.”
A U.S. Navy sailor aboard the Aircraft Carrier U.S.S. Enterprise, commenting on homoerotic training videos filmed and broadcast on the ship’s closed circuit video system by then XO and current Ship’s Captain Owen Honor.
(Via Andrew Sullivan)
Wait. Captain Honor? Really?
My Seamen Could Ass-Pound Your Honors Captain.
@Dodgerblue: I’m trying really hard to come up with a clever Major Major joke, but it’s just not happening.
@mellbell: We did “he honored her offer” here recently so I didn’t want to drag that one out again. So to speak.
@Dodgerblue:
its a typeo. its really Horner.
I think this plus the massive wildlife deaths in arkansas pretty much signal the end times.
Homosex, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the aircraft carrier Enterprise. Its 6 month mission: to explore strange new sex, to seek out new strange and new glory holes, to boldly blow what no US American has blown before.
So where would Jets coach Rex Ryan and Mrs. Ryan fit on this scale?
@ManchuCandidate: COTD.
@Capt Howdy: Not Horatio Hornblower, but close. Or “Captain Horndog.”
Oh, I’ve got stories…
I see no downside.
@Benedick: Media reports now claim that Capt. Downside has been relieved of his duty. No sense of humor there.
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