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Amarillo? That used to be our place between Casper Wyoming and Houston, TX where we'd spend the night as our half-way point, for 35 years! Nice town, but a lot bigger the last time I was there than in 1970! Seems the growth there was exponential. I have to hear your funny story about why they call you Squid. I'm all ears!
This thread is Mermaid Approved.
It's also Squid approved. (My nickname around here in Amarillo is Squid, because of being in the Navy. Funny story about it if you're interested).
Do tell!!!!!
Well, since you guys asked nicely...................
When I first got to Amarillo, I came here to be the LPO and Head Classifier for the Navy at Amarillo MEPS. I also rode a motorcycle and hung around biker bars.
Well, there was one bar here in Amarillo called Boondocks, and it was a serious biker bar. I started hanging around, and after a month or so, the owner asked me if I'd like a job as a bar back a few nights a week. I said sure, because the extra cash would be welcome and started there as a bar back, eventually being promoted to bar tender/manager.
Everyone knew that I was an active duty Sailor, and one night they started to have fun at my expense, because someone said that all Sailors were seamen, and then someone else shouted out "Hey Sperm ya seaman (although, their intent was to say "semen"), bring me a beer".
After the second or third person called me Sperm, I politely stood in the middle of the bar and told them that all Sailors were actually called Squids, and the next asshole that called me Sperm was gonna get a beer bottle upside the head.
From that night on, they have called me Squid.
Airdale = Naval aviation.
Surface Sailor = regular Navy
Bubblehead = submarine Navy
But, if you are a bubblehead, you believe there are 2 kinds of ships, subs and targets.
NMCBd - "Navy's Most Confused Bastards," according to Urban Dictionary. Urban Dictionary: NMCBAirdale = Naval aviation.
Surface Sailor = regular Navy
Bubblehead = submarine Navy
But, if you are a bubblehead, you believe there are 2 kinds of ships, subs and targets.
I can’t remember what the slang term for the SeaBees was.
I have reported and requested that the offensive post be removed, ABikerSailor. I just picked pictures suggested that represented different whales on Bing that were exactly the same size for the species. Each of them at where I was, if you clicked on it you got an entire page of the same specie at different angles. Some of them seem similar to others, but if you post a side view of the feature that separates the specie from other similar whales, you will understand why they have that same feature as another whale, but other factors in their outer appearance are so specific, you realize for example mouth shape or tail shape, one specie has a line of dots on its dorsal side which no other whale has, on and on. I'm sorry for seeing the forest but not the particulars of the trees shown. Thank you for opening my eyes a little wider.Not for nothing Beautress, but do you really think posting pics of dead whales on the beach, alongside other pics of whales in their environment and swimming?
Sorry, but the dead pics don't really do any good for me.