Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

It's Bat Appreciation Day. The sea bat scheme has long been a popular prank to pull on young sailors. The sailors are told that the crew has managed to capture a rare sea bat in an overturned box. As the sailors bend over to look, shipmates whack them in the rear with brooms.

It goes like this:

"Attention, all hands. A sea bat has been captured on the foc'sle (or fantail or flight deck — where ever). Anyone wishing to see it, lay forward."

A crowd would gather around an overturned cardboard box and invariably a commando size bosun's mate or snipe would be standing nearby with a broom prepared to attack the vicious beast, if necessary. One brave soul held down the box and the noise of the sea bat trying to get out could be heard.

Sooner or later a young sailor or junior officer could be coerced into bending down to take a look at what had been captured.

Then — THW-A-A-A-CWK! — the broom comes crashing into his backside. This was always followed by much laughter, and not just a small bit of embarrassment, on the part of the bender.

Usually the newbies, the young kids reporting aboard right out of boot camp or school were the target. Yes, it happened to me.


It's a Mount Weather miracle! Local newspaper story from 1960 about transporting a pregnant woman from Bluemont, VA to Walter Reed that doesn't mention that "Mr. Bourassa" was the number 2 man at the Mt. Weather government super-bunker at the time.


Like so many other names, I had never even heard of Archimedes Patti, but he worked in COG for 13 years. Even has an interesting wiki page on him.


April 17, 1990: the Royal Gala Premiere for THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER was held in Leicester Square, London. Sean Connery was recovering from vocal chord surgery and had been ordered to maintain absolute silence, but still attended the event to greet Princess Diana and Prince Charles. He also gave Diana presents for Princes William and Harry.


Princess Diana News Blog


R.I.P. Bob Graham (Nov 9, 1936 – April 16, 2024) D-Florida senator (1987-2005) served 10 years on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which he chaired during and after 9/11 and the run-up to the Iraq war which he staunchly opposed. He led the joint congressional investigation into 9/11.
Co-chaired the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling and as a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and the CIA External Advisory Board. He also launched the most extensive environmental protection program in Florida history, focused on preserving endangered lands.

He continued to oppose the Iraq War, saying in 2008:

Did you ever, at any point, think the war could be pulled off, that the U.S. was going to succeed?

"I'm afraid I never wavered from my belief that this was a distraction that was going to come to a bad end in Iraq and an even worse end in Afghanistan."

The Huffington Post

His meticulous diary-keeping was legendary. Reminds me of my grandma in regards to her garden planting/harvest & house plants; she kept 25 years worth that included rainfall, every weather forecast that lied & pesky rabbits and morning breaktime to listen to Paul Harvey.


Bob Graham had the slowest VCR rewind of all time. 15 minutes to "Be Kind and Rewind" an 87 minute film.?
TIME magazine, July 17, 2000

The notebooks are now housed at the University of Florida library.


I was watching episode 5 of "Fallout" last night and my eyes popped out when I seen this scene...



Today, a friend sent me this...


The fallout shelter sign is still there! It's at Hawthorne Owners Corporation, (Condominium complex) at 211 E 53rd St, New York, NY.

Stranger Things synchronicity!


Protective suits for fallout and Emergency Life Pack for an evening in New York, 1961. Photo by Max Scheler. Der Philosoph unter den Fotografen! (The philosopher among photographers):




Kiss the wife & kids goodbye, daddy gotta go play Maverick...What a life.


It was like Top Gun meets Star Wars



Navy Set to Miss Recruiting Goals by 6,700

Hmm, maybe start with eradicating the woke nonsense and secondly, create better Ad campaigns. When I joined I was immediately placed in the delayed entry program and had to wait 9 months before flying off to boot camp. The pool was over 100% for the technical rating I signed up for, hence the long delay.


So, it's 2024. Has any of this stuff happened?