"I pulled George out of the bay at Noumea. The Ship's photographer made up a liberty card for him. George lived with me in the Lighting Shop for over a year and went over the hill when we reached Seattle."
In 1944 some Navy men rescued a kitten and filled out all the forms for him like this.
Source:https://battleshipnc.catalogaccess.com/archives/28073
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@futurebird I lolled at Complexion: HAIRY and when they just started putting in 69 for all numbers
@futurebird A beautiful Christmas story.
@futurebird Mere words cannot express how much I love this
This is what people are meant to be doing. And that even a bunch of guys in the navy are doing it proves my point.
@futurebird I had a buddy who was a Marine and on one deployment, a three-legged dog adopted his unit. When time came to head back to the US, they built a well-ventilated crate for him and put on it the barcode for a tripod. The aircrew doing the cargo load scanned the crate, agreed that it contained a tripod, and loaded him on the plane. He was thus completely within the regulations to be shipped back. His barcode matched his description.
@grayladywriter @futurebird Could also have gone with Yardstick, given the three feet and all.
@maxthyme @futurebird
Very bad. Dad joke bad!
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Lots of "69" on that chart. Were people doing that joke back then…?
@futurebird an absolute legend. Paved the way for cats enlisted in the armed forces
@futurebird Nationality: Pussy
@futurebird I think that last picture is a perfect example of a "blursed image"
Can't speak for the funny sex number, but piss jokes? One of my favorite lines in Lokasenna (Loki's taunts) is when he says to Njord (sea god), that he bets a couple of giants took turns pissing in his mouth. Just one of many poems in the Old Norse tradition.