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SHIPMATES MEET
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To Exercse or Not To Exercise
It is well documented that for every mile that you jog, you add one minute to your life. This enables you, at age 85, to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $5,000 per month.
The only reason I would take up jogging is so I could hear heavy breathing again.
I joined a health club last year, spent about $400. Haven't lost a pound. Apparently you have to show up.
I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.
- The advantage of exercising every day is that you die healthier.
- I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I am doing.
- I don't exercise at all. If God meant us to touch our toes, he would have put them further up on our body.
- And last, but not least, I don't jog--it makes the ice jump right out of my glass.
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Retarded Grandparents
Received this from a shipmate and even if you're not a grandparent, thought you might enjoy..
A teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their vacation. One child wrote the following:
We always use to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa. They used to live here in a big, brick house, but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Florida and now they live in a place with a lot of other retarded people. They live in a tin box and have rocks painted green to look like grass.
They ride around on big tricycles and wear name tags because they don't know who they are anymore. They go to a building called a wrecked center, but they must have got it fixed because it is all right now. They play games and do exercises there, but they don't do them very well. There is a swimming pool too, but they all jump up and down in it with their hats on. I guess they don't know how to swim.
At their gate there is a dollhouse with a little old man sitting in it. He watches all day so nobody can escape. Sometimes they sneak out. Then they go cruising in their golf carts.
My grandma used to bake cookies and stuff, but I guess she forgot how. Nobody there cooks; they just eat out. And they eat the same thing every night: Early Birds. Some of the people can't get past the man in the dollhouse to go out, so the ones who get out bring food back to the wrecked center and call it pot luck.
My Grandma says Grandpa worked all his life to earn his retardment and says I should work hard so I can be retarded one day too. When I earn my retardment, I want to be the man in the dollhouse. Then I will let people out so they can visit their grandchildren.
(submitted by Jack Grubb (MM3, 1965-68)
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Swapping stories, catching up on old times and laughing at themselves, these three shipmates (Charles Pierce (BM 1951-55), Floyd Pennal (BM 1951-54) and Joe Kirby (SN, 1951-54)) met at Charles Pierce's home in North Augusta, South Carolina to keep in contact after the reunion in Hampton. They have been getting together as often as possible since they first met up again at the 1st reunion in Las Vegas in 1996.
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The Three Whetstone Sisters
Charles, Joe, Floyd |
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Sharing a good time at the Hampton VA reunion (Left to Right) Floyd Pennal, Edna Pierce, Joe Kirby, Jane Pennal, Myrtle Pilgreen, Vincie Pilgreen, Charles Pierce
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