We had to take a dose of "truth serum" for the blue nose ceremony, which was a blended mix of hot peppers, sardines, and God knows what else...it would make a billy goat gag, but I don't remember it working as a laxative (or maybe I blocked that out of my memory). It was a thick, grey, lumpy, sauce that they put into sqeeze bottles and fed us while we sat on a huge block of ice and getting sprayed with icy seawater. I can still remember vividly the smell of garbage that we crawled through in the aft part of the torpedo room as we waited our turn on the ice block. It was a relief to get the blue dye on your nose...although it wouldn't come off for days, we weren't going to being seeing anyone anyhow!
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Only two types of ships in my Navy, submarines and targets!
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