Okay….
So what do sea monsters have for dinner… Fish and ships?!? Hell, after
Twenty-Three years in the Deep Blue… I ain’t seen noth’n like the Kraken or any
other Horrifying Leviathan Denison of the Deep! Never ran across the mighty Architeuthis
Squid of ‘Nemo’s Twenty-One Leagues under the Sea’!!
Like
going back to the
days of Ahab
and the White Whale, I once had a Moby Dick kinda moment with a
whale that came up in front of the forecastle about twenty feet directly below
me… more like Moby Dick’s daddy… Poppa Boner! Scared the Bejeeezuz outta me… Damned
near pissed my pants!!!
Then
there was the time I was snorkeling in the tropics and about got my hand bitten
off by a yellow eel!! Reach’n inside a crevice look’n for some lobster when
something grabbed my damned arm!! I pulled it out and attached to my wrist was
this huge eel… with dagger like teeth… and evil red eyes!! Blood was clouding
the water everywhere!! I thought he’d taken my whole gaudamned arm off bubbl’n
up to the surface scream’n and holler’n… everybody laugh’n at me!! Just a flesh
wound, but I think I’d about shit myself under water!!!
And
once I’d seen a big ol’ Shark trailing the fan tail while dump’n garbage! He had big sharp teeth… wicked teeth!! He was hungry and could
eat you… staring at me with those cold dark eyes and the gaping mouth full of meanness…
By God I swear!! Could you imagine going
over with the garbage?!?
Man-eating sharks…
Mobius Titanicus Whales… Sea Serpent EELs?!? No… those weren’t the real Sea
Monsters! The real Sea Monsters were all too real… like the crusty ol’ Chiefs
in the Goat Locker!!!
“There’s
no gaudamned question about it… sailors belong on ships and ships belong at
sea!”
These were Old Time
Navy hard-ass sons-a-bitches from the days of Noah’s Ark... I've still got the
teeth marks seared into my ass to prove it!
"Anyone seen my
right boot... I need to stick it up Seaman Smelly’s ass so he can taste the
leather on my toes when they’re tickl’n his gaudamned tonsils!!”
Chiefs had tempers of volcanic proportions...
Early morning Quarters the first thing outta the Chief’s
mouth…
"What is this… a social goat fuck? Form the fuck up you
ugly bastards!”
Yeah, they should’a
had their mouth’s washed with soap... true experts in the enterprise of
descriptive four letter words their mothers would never have endorsed!!!
When a ‘Grumpy
ol’ Chief is pissed off… the judiciously
safe distance of well-being would be several Zip Codes from where he’s
currently standing...
Then
there was the Navy issued asses! There is noth’n uglier than a Sea Monster
with the exception of some of those women on Navy ships... they'd definitely fit the description!! Some
of those gals were ugly as could be… kinda like Ursula from ‘The Little
Mermaid’ with the big ol’ hips… giant teeth… and tentacles for legs!! I
shit you not… my shipmates can attest to it!! Just ask’em!! So ugly they’d need a medical waiver just to get married!!
But months underway and noth’n
but the hand and some jergens keep’n you company… the ones on land… civilian
types out in town… those kind’a ladies sometimes put the women on ships to
shame!! A good Chief would always tell ya…
“If she lives around these parts, she could probably suck start a Cummings
Engine. Lord knows she's had plenty of practice. Just don't kiss her... you'll
be making out with the whole gaudamned fleet!”
Hell,
when my shipmates
caught wind of my ‘Lola’ moment (an
earlier story) I kept hearing ‘Public Service Announcements….
"You know what they say about women who
have large feet don’t ya?”… “They got big penises!”
With
a fixed need for a cold beer and some feminine companionship... a lot of them gals
would otherwise be real eye sores… but to a female-deprived Barnacle Bill style
Crackerjack just moments after liberty call and some strong suds down his
gullet… they were temporary Goddesses!!! Oh my ain’t it funny how the contemplation
of horizontal refreshment and exuberant amount of libations can turn on the ol’
Beer Goggles?!?
“I'm just say’n these guys still got their ‘Deployment
Goggles’ on and now they wanna double up with ‘Beer Goggles’? Someone is gonna
make one hell of a friend tonight… and sure as shit gonna regret in the
morning."
The
longer one goes without companionship of the feminine type the better the odds can
reduce one to the state of temptation at cross pollinating with a female King
Kong type gorilla just minutes after being released across the brow…
“Hey… Have you ever seen Gorillas in the
Mist?”
“Yeah, I've seen your new girlfriend in the shower!”
The
only defining measure of good judgement at this point is that she walks upright
and has most of her teeth left and over Ninety but under Three Hundred pounds… so
long as her body odor ain’t noticeable! Yes…
weeks of turn’n circles in the deep blue can make an Iguana look
like a beauty queen!! You know they
say that sticking around at late night taverns ‘til last call accounts for at
least sixty percent of regrettable hookups. I remember one bigg’n I regretted
in the morning! This had been the biggest one yet...." swear it took two hours to bring her in when I
harpooned Her!! Why else was I hang’n around for last call?!?
“Fuck. Fuck. Shit. Fuck. Fuckity fuckity
fucking fuck mother of fuck. Why the fuck did you put your dick in that you
piece of shit?”
You
know when she’s asleep on your arm the next morning and you’d chew it off to
keep from waking her or after sobering up you scrub it with rubb’n alcohol and
acetone while contemplating in the act of cutt’n it off because you were soooo
ashamed… Yep, I’ve been there!!!
That
long lost search for a soft sweet-smelling bed partner even leads to possible
homicidal situations between friends… as Jeff Caldwell could probably attest after
leav’n us at a late night diner with some old Sea Hag he was gonna hook up with!!
That was until the coffee kicked in and he realized what he was gett’n into!! Her grill was about as fucked up as dyslexic alphabet soup and her breath
was kicking like a kung fu movie.
Jeff… That was about as wrong as two boys screw’n in a
preachers office!
Then you got the fellas who purposely go for fat chicks… yes
some fellas do it just for sport! I’m talking about the age ol’ practice of going
hogg’n…
“Son what do you mean you don’t like hogg’n… If you don't
like bacon the terrorists win!”
“Yeah man… You haven't snuggled till you've shared a twin
size with a fat chick!"
It’s taken for granted that us
‘Crackerjacks are a bunch’a gaudamned horny bastards. We’d been known to go
horizontal with anything with a hole and two tits and tell tall tales about how
we’d bedded Miss America the night before... Let’s face it, the male appetite
for volatile torpedoes and bearded clams is unquenchable. After all… a bit of booze makes everyone a little easier
on the eyes!! I’d been known to
have the ability to screw what looks like it should be on the endangered
species list… you’d heard of the Bremelos… we’d also discovered the
Silverdactiles and Port-a-potimus of the Great Northwest!!
Though you can pretty much find
similar species everywhere… And don’t think you fellas are all that pretty
yourselves… ‘Old Spice’ and crisp uniforms won’t hide everything… cause ugly is ugly,
ain’t no two ways about!! But hell... even the ugly ones need some loving too!!!