NOT THE ONLY SQUID GETTING SMASHED AT THE SHARK'S COVE

About 2 years ago, I posted this picture of me & some Navy buds getting stinking drunk at the Shark's Cove bar in Olongapo (Philippines).

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Turns out I'm not the only one with fond (if blurry) memories of the place. Reader Richard, who was a MM Nuke on the Truxton (CGN-35), e-mailed me a pic of him and HIS buds doing the same damn thing:

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Note the fishnet in the background of both pictures.

By the way, the short chick on the right wasn't a Nuke, she was a... um... "working girl".

Wonder how much her bar fine was?

TODAY'S SIMPSON TRIVIA

(Introduction)

2) Why did Homer once pawn the family TV set?

3) In one of his nightmares Bart dies, and Nelson does what to him at the funeral?

4) In "There's No Disgrace Like Home", Homer learns that the answers to his life's problems are found where?

Official Trivia Card answers in the comments tomorrow.

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Yeah, I'm doing a little guest-posting at Drunken Wisdom again.

When will that boy ever learn?

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Oh no,
there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla!

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Matrix Edition

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The Wangmobile

AMERICA! SHE'S A GREAT COUNTRY, NO?

Blogdaughter Sally of Whimsy Capricious is guest-posting for bloggranddaughter VW Bug of One Happy Dog Speaks.

Such a mutually supportive little family I have :-)

Today's question is:

What are the most beautiful, or exciting places in the United States, in your opinion?
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Perhaps you'd like to share your memories, or even photographs, at your own blog? If so, please leave a trackback.

I've been all over this great nation (courtesy of Uncle Sam, the Navy, and you - the generous American Taxpayer... and I suppose I should also thank the commies & terrorists who made my job necessary), and I think the obvious answer to this question is:

Newport News, Virginia.

Why?

(answer in extended entry)

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Introducing: THE WANGETTES!

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Eric's up to some devilment over there, too.

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Oh, and T1G (or someone who looks like him) has a teary-eyed confession to make.

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There's also a post by T1G.

You remember him, right? It used to be his blog...

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By the way, all the pictures I've posted over there were actually taken by me in Thailand when I was there courtesy of Uncle Sam's Cruise Lines back in '89.

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My new guest post over at Drunken Wisdom

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Good Lord, I'm everywhere.

Now I'm sitting in blogson T1G of Drunken Wisdom's virtual living room with Eric of Straight White Guy, drinkin' scotch & tellin' bullshit sea stories from back in my Navy days.

Of course, I've actually got a PICTURE to back up MY bullshit.

Go look.