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To: Jan_Sobieski

Navy tradition already has it baked in:
rum buggery, and the lash


13 posted on 06/02/2022 8:19:39 AM PDT by CapandBall
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To: CapandBall

...interesting....some additional info....

...[A Royal Navy historian] suggests there’s some basis to the belief that the Royal Navy’s traditions consisted of “rum, sodomy, and the lash” (a witticism often misattributed to Winston Churchill)......”

He probably never said those exacct words but it seemed to be somewhat true about the Royal Navy in those days....


25 posted on 06/02/2022 8:58:52 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: CapandBall
Navy tradition already has it baked in:
rum buggery, and the lash

Not OUR Navy; back when I served alcohol was forbidden on shipboard, they kicked queers out and extra duty at hard labor was the punishment for other than criminal offenses.

45 posted on 06/02/2022 11:49:59 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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