"This was twenty years after WWII, but I have personally seen the torpedomen take cleaning alcohol, the same fluid that we used to clean the decks and the torpedo's with, slow filter it through a loaf of bread to take out the dangerous impurties and then ferment it in a can of grape juice."
Guilty pleasures are all the more pleasurable. I've enountered a few strange (vodka injected) oranges in my time. The only rules that matter are ones the skipper enforces, and those are not broken.
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Commander Hiram Cassedy: "Tigrone has saved the Air Force and is now returning to Iwo Jima with 28 rescued zoomies." B-29 SNUFFY & THE SHIF'LESS SKONKS among them.
I've a broom at the mast said he, for the broom is a sign for me, that wherever I go, I sweep the mighty sea.
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