G'day from Berky
Hey gang, s..t for brains Berky here....no, not dead :grin: Thanks to my old sparring partner Coral, found Cliffy's site and happy as a pig in s..t. Now I can go around giving Cooks curry like I did over 30 years ago LOL! Naah, actually nearly changed my branch from Gunnery across to Chef'n back around '76 when they started to phase out WM's. Regreted it ever since.... :cry: Great to be here, thanks Cliffy, good stuff!

OH!!!! NO!!!!!! What have I done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: Welcome Paul/Turret/Berky/Rustic Paul, and any other aliases you may dream up :lol: Good to see you on board. Might get a decent feed now!!!!!!!! -------------------- and you're not even a cook rating :lol: :lol: :lol: :wink:

Speaking of aliarses???...Kippy Kippy Kippy???...nope, you've lost me LOL!

An explanation!!!!!! Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:31 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just lettting you all know that I have changed my name from Cosmum to "Kippy". I found another person on the web using the Cosmum signature and it was explained that her husband mentioned she was a cranky old s*** and she added mum to that and came up with cosmum. My cosmum was because as long as I can remember, my brother has always called me cos, and I added mum, because that is what I am. Kippy was the name of one of my favourite soft toys as a child. It was a very lifelike Koala, until I decided to give it a haircut!!!!! _________________ Kippy

Gee that helps a lot, having a 'senior moment' and still have absolutely no idea who Skippy is?.....I mean Kippy?...if Cosmum is a clue, then I'm stuffed :? I'll take a guess and assume 'Cos' is short for Coral??? :?:

You're amongst friends here Paul, I went to the reunion and most of the ex-cooks look like you and vice versa. wtf :P If anyone want to have a look at a top website check out Berkys site at :- http://www.feelin-rustic.com/

Like this Cliff?....have it on my MySpace page. Watch It: If you are told you are too old to do something :lol:

Yes mate welcome to the site look forward to hearing your dits Although i cant place you dosent mean i did'nt serve with you at some time. Getting a tad forgetfull in these last few years anyway on the whole the cooks got on with most branches we always had friends on board especially when you were baking bread at sea. Here's a quick dit about dibbies - I was night cook on the VENDETTA and i made up a batch of Lamingtons and put them on the servery line out of anyones reach, so i thought, and unbeknown to me the dibbies had made a long set of tongs to stick throught the mesh shutters and help themselves to anything they could so while i was out having my brew i came back and about a dozen lamos hade disappeared. I thought what the f888?, so i made some more and this time i covered them with glad wrap. I mentioned the case of the disappearing doughnuts to Tex Watson the CPO Ck and he said must be the f888888 dibbies and stokers, so next night i went and got some white sponge that we had in the spud locker and cut it up in squares dipped it in the chocolate and coconut then set the trap. Was'nt long before someone took the bait actually about 8 lamos were taken that night One even went up to the bridge as i had an irate Subby ring the Galley saying there was something wrong with the lamos I said sir i havent made any lamos, a couple of dibbies were here earlier making them for someone. He then hung up And do you know Paul i never had another lamo stolen from the galley and remember inside every dibbie theres a cook trying to get out . regards Quinny

Lamingtons
:twisted: quinny your dit brings back memories from Moresby 1978, Rastes was on there too. Well the birdies onboard weren't a bad bunch except for one upstart pilot who rubbed most of the ships company the wrong way. The the cpo birdie called into the galley and asked if he could have sangas and play lunch as the chopper was flying into Port Headland or somewhere on the WA coast, he said we need to sort this pilot out. The cooks said fine leave it with us. The chopper left Moresby with 4 crew including the upstart pilot, after 2 hours into the flight I was called to the flight deck. The chopper crew had tried to eat the sangas and lamos, the sangas had cardboard as the filling with writing on the cardboard saying ham and salad, tomato and cheese. The sangas soon got the flick and the crew got stuck into the lamos well talk about give you mouth a good work out the cpo birdie had given the cooks high density foam to work with. You can imagine what the boys on the chopper were thinking. The radioed back to the ship wanting some answers the cpo birdie said I'll let you talk to one of cooks, I was the lucky bastard. Anyway I said hows the flight going the pilot said not too good, whats the story with lunch, I said the cooks made everything fresh only half an hour before you left, no answer, I said did you open the white bags marked air crews lunch, no he said, we opened the brown paper bags and assumed that was our lunch. Never assume anything on Survey ship. Anyway to cut a long story short the young upstart changed his ways after that.

So funny......
Thats good pay back Craig....

The dirty trick memories are coming back now - how many remember (at various depots) the boot polish on the seats in the Wrans Heads? The Gladwrap stretched taut under the seats in the Wrans Heads?. Or the diced Sunlight Soap in amongst the diced Cheese?. I swear i saw a stoker at Watson eat half a plate of it without even blinking an eyelid. See what you started Berky? wtf (4) (2)

Lamingtons and hungry guts
When i was P.O.Cook on the Adelaide we had the same hungry shits 1st in line all the time, I put on Lamingtons for the 1st time after being in the States for a while and lo and behold the same Chiefs and gannets in the lower deck cafe snaffled most of them and many dipped out. So I put them out again but made them from a nice yellow plastic sponge. My favourite Chief ate three before I asked how they were? He said they were good but a little chewy. The same thing happened in the junior sailors.The next time I put them on they all stood back and waited for some one else to try them. A lesson well learned.

That's a good one Starkey, I forgot about the old 'Sponge Rubber Lamington' trick. :twisted:

Yes George Cooks werent to be trifled with in those days and yes best way to get them to stop stealing the cheese is to cut up the pussers hard into cubes. I'd even forgot about that one Cliff, one day we all must sit down and write some of those tricks down I wonder if they still do them these days being that pussers is so ffeen politically correct these days. Another favourite was when you had the corned dog on and made the mustard sauce on was telling evryone it was custard and laugh when they poured it over their duff and the Med in the redders was another one and the salt and pepper shakers with the screw in bottoms were not always done up tight. Salt instead of sugar in the brews was the go so many tricks. They are only a few of the top of my head see what else we can come up with It was never boring and Cliff thanks for sorting out the wedding invite how cookie of you .Best wishes quinny