Razorback (SS 394) - Naval Cruise Book

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BALDIES Did you ever stop to think what a sight fifteen cue balls would make, racked up, and ready for the break? Picture it: fifteen shiny ivory spheres, against a background of lush green, and the smoky atmosphere surrounding a pool table. Get it firmly established in your mind's eye. Then compare it with fifteen shorn and shaven heads, beams of white light reflecting un- mercifully from their shaven surfaces, against a back drop of green bunk covers and the dim gloom of the after torpedo room. That's the picture presented to any startled visitor as he stepped thru the door from the maneuvering room. Really not a lot of difference between the two, is there? lt all started when Willy Clay Cobb, the Mad Bos'n Mate decided that the extra minute he spent combing his hair, before going on watch, could be more profit- ably spent in the sack, sleeping. So never one to in- dulge in half way measures, he took the hair by the ends and off it came. That started the ball rolling. Dubuque appeared, sleek and shiny. Not long after, Kemmick and Mast took the fatal step. And it was fatal! For now with fiendish delight, this handful of despoilers plotted with open malice to ruin the sartorial delight of their ship- mates. Plans were loudly voiced as to what procedure would be used when their innocent victims fell asleep. Finally, in desperation, fearing a mutilation beyond all secondary, the inmates of the after room, whose names follow, bowed their innocent but lumpy heads, to the shearer: Gibson, Taylor, Kemmick, Mehalick, Wal- ker, Mast, Scanlan, Ballard, Dubuque, Hanson, Koehane, Ray, Auer, Ruffing, McDugal. What, is sauce for the goose, the gander gets too, and so shortly the other members of the crew were following suit. Even the Ward room was not immune. Pop Quentin loudly proclaimed that if he were a few hairs younger, he'd get his cut. , Here follows a list, closely as we can recall, with a chuckle of the: BALD HEADED BRIGADEH Mr. Adams, Porta, Wilson, La Pointe, Phaegangs, Ernest, Prybysz, Pacifico, Culp, Safford, Moore, Natelli, Crawford, Langford, Eberhart, Peugh, O'Connell, Mc- Mahan, Prescott, LaBerteaux, Hathaway, Mulligan, Hershman, Gallagher, Massey, Small, Steward. Now one year later, Willy Wilson is still trying valiantly to recover from the effects. This was the unkindest cut of all. DEEP SNORTER Clear the bridgell Take her downll Level off, and dive me a zero angle. Holy smoke, look at that depth gauge! Thus, the Deep Snorter Club was born. lt happened during our second war patrol, and the charter members are as follCWSt Lieut. R. L. Smith, Lucky Langford, McManus, Duck Walker, J. Mehalick, W. R. Porta, John Rus- sack, C M. Gibson, J. A. Kemmick, Jack Pcugh. Duck. Walker and Joe Mehalick, having previously been below the required depth, held the initiation. All members are required to sign a one dollar bill. Each member has one of these bills. Should he be asked for it at any time or place, and not be able to produce it, he must pay each member'D eSe ll The Sum of one dollar, Should the member fail to produce hss Deep Snorter bill in a bar-room, it means a round of drinks for all handS, af the expense of the Unlor' tunate clubmari.

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DONNIE and ROBBIE BROWN SUSAN WALKER RICKY AUBREY