Utah Bob #35998 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Remembering the Thanklessgivings I spent far from home in the service. This would have made it more pleasant. Napolean was right. An army travels on it's stomach. And not just food! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Now that right there is just plain awesome. Marketing hit a sweet spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 that is awesome as stated above , would love to find one of those to add to my shelf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 13 hours ago, watab kid said: that is awesome as stated above , would love to find one of those to add to my shelf e-bay. Search for "jim beam canteen decanter". Lots of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrus Cassidy #45437 Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Do you think top wouldn't have noticed that?!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Fifteen men on a dead man's chest. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Drink and the devil have done for the rest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Recently reread Treasure Island. First time around, didn't recognize all the preaching about demon rum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 ".. preaching about demon rum..." i recall that but always thought as i do that its never the object to blame but always the fool handling it , i still live that and if ever rum should curse me it shall be myself to blame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted November 30, 2020 Author Share Posted November 30, 2020 On 11/27/2020 at 10:08 PM, MizPete said: Fifteen men on a dead man's chest. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Drink and the devil have done for the rest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Recently reread Treasure Island. First time around, didn't recognize all the preaching about demon rum. Pirates were always drunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted November 30, 2020 Author Share Posted November 30, 2020 6 minutes ago, watab kid said: ".. preaching about demon rum..." i recall that but always thought as i do that its never the object to blame but always the fool handling it , i still live that and if ever rum should curse me it shall be myself to blame I’m having some demon rum I’m with my pizza. Hot and buttered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 On 11/27/2020 at 9:08 PM, MizPete said: Fifteen men on a dead man's chest. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Drink and the devil have done for the rest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Recently reread Treasure Island. First time around, didn't recognize all the preaching about demon rum. ''You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly...'' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 5 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: I’m having some demon rum I’m with my pizza. Hot and buttered that looks might good to these old eyes , and yes a bit of cheese would go nicely me thinks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted November 30, 2020 Author Share Posted November 30, 2020 2 minutes ago, watab kid said: that looks might good to these old eyes , and yes a bit of cheese would go nicely me thinks Plenty of cheese on the Pizza! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 i agree with your choice , im hungry , would sound very good at this point in the evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 I always try to keep numerous varieties of cheese in my larder!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Checotah Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 On 11/26/2020 at 7:24 PM, Utah Bob #35998 said: Remembering the Thanklessgivings I spent far from home in the service. This would have made it more pleasant. Napolean was right. An army travels on it's stomach. And not just food! 100 months? I have a bottle of Beam that my parents got before 1980. It is still unopened. It is one of the Model-T Ford bottles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amigo Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 These days, you can't even have a drink while on a deployment. With that in mind, I'll share a story that was told to me by my late Great Uncle, Peter Anderson, back when I was a young second lieutenant. My Uncle was assigned to an Army communications unit that was first in on the major military operations in the European Theater during World War II. He was in North Africa, Sicily and then D-Day. He survived those major operations and was a 23 year old Master Sergeant at the end of the war. He told me the story over lunch that day of his time going in to Sicily. They had several days of fighting and then things quieted down. Back then, they would play poker when they received their pay and they pretty much would go all in as they didn't know if they would be alive the next day. My Uncle was the big winner that night and they went into the small local town not far from their encampment in search of a good meal. They found a restaurant that was serving and had some wine with their meal that they really enjoyed. My Uncle asked if they had more of that wine and the waiter took him down into the wine cellar. He had won about $200 in poker the night before and they offered to sell him the wine at $1 a bottle. He bought all they had and he and his fellow soldiers took it back to their encampment on the edge of another town, which had a small fountain the the town square. They stacked the dusty bottles up in the fountain to keep them cool and then went to the next town over where there was a medical battalion and invited all of the nurses back over to their town. He said the party lasted about two days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perro Del Diablo Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 On 11/26/2020 at 6:24 PM, Utah Bob #35998 said: Remembering the Thanklessgivings I spent far from home in the service. This would have made it more pleasant. Napolean was right. An army travels on it's stomach. And not just food! Might not been official but been a canteen or two with spirited water in it over the years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 10 hours ago, Dustin Checotah said: 100 months? I have a bottle of Beam that my parents got before 1980. It is still unopened. It is one of the Model-T Ford bottles. The canteen decanters were sold in 1979! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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