[Brag]

At full speed the U-boat moved ahead of the convoy and the following day at noon it lay in ambush, ready to deliver a deadly blow to the British Empire.
"This is schwooggsie," Bernard said when the soundman announced he had several sound contacts.

"Schwooggsie?" Balz demanded in an indignant tone. "What is that?"
Bernard shuffled his feet. "It is the same thing as schwooggie."
"How dare you say such an abomination? I invented schwooggie." Balz poked his index finger into Bernard´s chest. "And you are perverting the purity of this fine word."
"Schwooggsie is and independent word of schwooggie. It is cuter," Bernard insisted.
"You piece of ocean going submergible moron. We are about to engage in deadly combat against an implacable foe and you, like a pervert say schwooggsie."

Balz turned toward the sound man. "Bearing to the center of convoy?"
"360. Herr Kaleun."
"Schwooggie," Balz said. "where is the lead escort?"
"No contact with warships."
"Mmmm, Strange."
"That's schwooggsie," Bernard said smiling.
"Here we have dozens of ships approaching with their screws singing a song of doom and you, like a depraved pervert, keep repeating that stupid word which I refuse to utter."
"You mean schwooggsie, Herr Kaleun?"
"I refuse to say schwooggsie, you nautical version of a cretin landlubber."
"Ah, you just said it."
"Said what?"
"Schwooggsie."
"Action stations, silent running. And you, Bernard go to the wardroom and write a thousand times, I will not say schwooggsie ever again."
Balz donned his bunny tea cozy and went to the periscope.

There weren't any escorts in sight. "New course 090 we will hoochie with the forward tubes and woochie with stern tubes


Stay tuned for another epic episode of the titanic struggle of the North Atlantic.