God bless the little children!

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

My neighbor called yesterday morning just after 7 and asked to borrow a stick of butter, he was clear out.

About my age, I'd reckon, lost a leg to diabetes, hell of a nice guy, and his Rottweiler thinks I'm wonderful.

I took him over an unopened carton, which tickled him unduly: he apologized for the early morning call and I laughed and said fried taters without butter is a crisis!

This morning -- well, just after twelve noon, it was -- my wife was fixing a casserole and used the last half stick in the butter dish.

I saw she was also out of her favorite breakfast cereal, so grab the hat and out the door.

I was admiring the checkout lady's Air Force parka, Sergeant's insignia on the sleeves, a familiar shield in front with a squadron number and the word BUFF.

A little girl -- she and her Mama were right behind me in line -- crowded up, looked at the checkout with big bright eyes and in that innocent voice of a child said, "YOU drove a BUFF?"

I don't think you could have tickled her any more if you'd given her a hundred dollar bill.

When a big-eyed little girl looks with wonder and admiration at someone and asks, "YOU drove a BUFF?" -- when a child about Angela's age knows what a Buff is, and what it takes to drive one -- there's still hope!

(It was the checkout's late brother who gave her the Buff parka, a year ago today)

[Subdeacon Joe]

You should have asked the little girl if she knew what BUFF stands for!

 

And watched the mom cringe.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

You should have asked the little girl if she knew what BUFF stands for!

 

And watched the mom cringe.

Big Ugly Fat Fella, no cringe.

[Subdeacon Joe]

10 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Big Ugly Fat Fella, no cringe.

 

That's not the version I  first learned. 

[Alpo]

That's okay Joe. That's the first time I've ever heard that version.

[watab kid]

some things stay where they are learned or among friends when a little girl is in the room , 

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

5 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

That's not the version I  first learned. 

Kinda like SNAFU, etc. where the word “fouled” is substituted for the other. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, watab kid said:

some things stay where they are learned or among friends when a little girl is in the room , 

 

There's always that one uncle with the inappropriate stories,  who also teaches the kids how to make match guns with clothes pins, and matchstick rockets with foil and stick matches.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

23 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

That's not the version I  first learned. 

Goes along with ‘are you a turtle?’

[Eyesa Horg]

11 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Goes along with ‘are you a turtle?’

Bet your sweet a.. I am!

[Subdeacon Joe]

YBYSAIA!  (in reality, no, but I can't afford to buy the drinks )

A bit on that:

 

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Historical references

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During the 1962 Mercury-Atlas 8 mission (part of the United States space program), astronaut Wally Schirra was asked by ground controller Deke Slayton whether he was a turtle. Not wanting to use vulgar language while his communications were being broadcast worldwide, he temporarily stopped transmitting in order to record the required response.^[6][7] Later, on board the recovery ship USS Kearsarge, in front of Slayton, Walt Williams and the other astronauts, Walt Williams demanded to know how Schirra replied to Deke's question. Schirra played the recorder. "Hey, Wally, are you a turtle?" followed by the proper response, "YBYSAIA".^[5][8]

In 1968, on the Apollo 7 mission, during seven telecasts which were the first video broadcasts from a spacecraft, Schirra instead asked Slayton, through the capcom, whether he was a turtle.^[6] Slayton in turn also recorded his answer.^[6] According to the Apollo 7 mission transcript, he also asked if Paul Haney was a turtle, to which Schirra replied that Haney was buying, not talking.^[9] The Smithsonian owns a turtle membership card changed to call the organization the "Interstellar Association of Turtles: Outershell Division" signed by Wally Schirra and TRW employee Gerry Morton.^[3]

President John F. Kennedy was also allegedly asked if he was a Turtle at a press conference, to which he replied, "I'll buy you your drink later".^[2][6]

 

[watab kid]

20 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

There's always that one uncle with the inappropriate stories,  who also teaches the kids how to make match guns with clothes pins, and matchstick rockets with foil and stick matches.

that one for my kids passed away a couple years ago , 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

4 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Goes along with ‘are you a turtle?’

You bet your sweet ass I am.

[Blackwater 53393]

You bet your sweet ass I am!

[Kid Rich]

14 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Bet your sweet a.. I am!

Kept me from havin to say it.

kR

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

*click*
"CapeCapCom, going alternate channel"

*click*

(heartily declared, knowing (1) it was safely off the public consumption channel and on the private channel, and (2) it would be recorded for posterity ...

... the original Seven had a tight sense of camaraderie and a collectively, genuinely, rotten sense of humor!

[Alpo]

I had a guy that was slightly weaving back and forth ask me, one night, if I was a turtle. I told him no. Gleefully he now informed me that I had to buy everybody a drink. Because I hadn't used the special phrase.

 

I said, "you obviously don't understand how this works".