Funniest Thing I saw In Pussers
I am sure Barney wont mind me telling this dit. I remember a time at HMAS Albatross when we had Captains Divisions. All cooks except duty watch were to attend. About 10 minutes before we were due to fall in Barney Rumble discovered that he did not have his dress shoes. Not discouraged Barney decides to wear his cooks boots! lol. His next brain wave was to "faint' before he could be inspected - - - you are not going to believe it but he got away with it, Good on you Barney!

Yes a good thread to start and im sure we all have some funny dits to tell Us cooks were an inventive lot to sa the least and we set the benchmark for a lot of other sailors to follow I will give this some thought and will write a dit later in the week .And yes all you maroons out there go the blues .We got the game live here in Adelaide which was good .

great thread to start one of the funniest things i saw in pussers was one night i was night flying cook at the tross and after the wets closed L/ck Bobby Fenton and L/ck kevin Gutcher they were both pretty pissed .. (came in to check on me being a OD just out of recruit school and in Bobs watch) had a bet who could do the soft shoe shuffle the best ..away they went around the big oilburning range then Kevin said beat this and jumped up on the stove and anybody who can remember that monster the first plate glowed red ..heres Kevin dancing away smoke pouring out of the soles of his shoes singing and laughing his guts out.. i nearly had a fit dont know to this day how he never burnt his feet off . he also won the bet what ever that was for .. still can still smell the burning rubber. great days now long gone. cheers Johnno

Yes johnno it always was funnier if you had a few schooners in to you.Any way i have a heap of dits and some dont translate to well via the written word . On Duty weekends at the tross On the Saturday i used to bring my eldest son in for a few hours.He used to love it he was about 8 at the time and i had Lwrnck Carmel Squillari Running the watch plus a few other cooks whose names escape me. Any way we had spag bol on and i had made it up and put it on the line and cleaned out the copper. I said to Mark lets get you in the copper ill put the lid down and when Carmel comes along Jump up and say boo .He was only small so he fitted easy in the copper with the lid on well i went and got carmel to check the copper out as i made some lame excuse as to why it wouldt come clean .The trap was set . So she took the bait and opened the copper and Mark yelled boo .carmel sreamed and went as white as her dress it was a classic And the watch laughed out loud. Buckets of water on unsuspecting cooks was always good < during a scrub out Rastes was good at this Playing cricket in the main meat boats for wickets and paddles for bats and oranges for balls . yeah remember them all .

bloody hell you blokes have got good memories i sure don't remember that barney

One of many. We were in Fiji and a certain unnamed ABSN nicknamed 'devo' was having his birthday. He cracked onto a local lass at the hotel bar, got a room, and told me to hide in the wardrobe. (the plan was for me to pop out and 'spread the love' on the vinegar stroke). So I am in there working up the courage to do the deed (not pissed enough) and devo walks in with the chick, gets her clobber off and gets to work. Here is this fair maiden laying spreadeagled there and devo is going to town on her whilst singing "happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me" over and over again. I was sitting in there pissing myself laughing. The chick didnt seem to mind at all.

How's your memory Barney?
I suppose you dont remember that photo of you showing all your glory either!