MOJO

stumpy ^ | 12/31/01 | stumpy

[stumpy]

Hey Marines. Someone posted a favorite drink thread, How many Marines that were stationed on Okinawa (or passed through enroute to the Nam) remember MOJO? For those that never had that experience, let me explain.

Mojo was a secret Japanese weapon designed for the non-violent re-conquest of the Island of Okinawa. It was served in a "typhoon" fifth for a dollar a bottle and you could sit and drink it all night long and carry on an "intelligent" conversation. Once you stood up, you were in deep "doo-doo".

I personally "walked" off the roof of a bar looking for a taxi after a "few" typhoon fifths.

Let's hear some more "MOJO" night stories for this New Years.

[The KG9 Kid]

Lots of Freepers have Mojo stories.

[Noswad]

Oh yes! Here is my story about drinking Mojo in Okinawa as a young Marine:

hmmmm... I can't remember now.

Stumpy, thanks for the background on Mojo. I always wondered what was up with that stuff. Anyone know the "ingredients"??

[Rain-maker]

Hehe...sounds like UZO, the non-exported brand from Greece.

Will be interseting to hear these MOJO stories.

[rockfish59]

my brother!
20 years in the navy!
nicknamed 'MOJO'!
it's tattooed on his fingers!
now lives in olongapo city, P.I.!

[alcuin]

LOL.

He's got some, himself.

Oh God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams!

[stumpy]

Mojo consisted of Saki, Sloe Gin, Beer, 7-up and orange soda pop. Looked a lot like (and had a sort of similar taste) to hawaiin punch. But a very subtle kick.

[Noswad]

Oh yes... I remember the taste vividly but we could never get any of the nationals to give us the formula.

Thanks! I know what making for the New Year's party!

[usslsm51]

I drank something Christmas day 1944 with a group of soldiers at Ormoc, Leyte, PI. It must have been MOJO cause it tasted like fire and when I got up to go back to my ship I still can't remember it.

[PRND21]

bump

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Funny, I thought MOJO was the nickname of the Odessa Permian High School football team that "almost" always beat my High School!

But I'll bet you have a Marine story....

[Salgak]

Sounds like the "Orange Oscar" we got in Korea. . . .

[annalex]

Ouzo

Thanks for the memories.

[ArrogantBustard]

Mojo Jojo?

[CELTICGAEL (Celt)]

I went to your web site. You have done a great job my friend! My dad was at Leyte. He was a coxswain on the USS LST 568. Happy New Year!

[Mojo-jo-jo]

Hmmm...I look pretty happy there! (hehehe)

[Roger_W_Isom]

WHY do I have the feeling its going to be one of those nights????:-)))))

[Roger_W_Isom]

My brother Carl... a Master Sargeant in the Air Force has some WILD stories!!! One he tells is of his boss Sargeant on Base one night saying.... "LATS HAVE A PARTY!!!!" "Okay!!!"Goes Carl and gang!!! they then proceed to go arond Seoul, South Korea and his Sargeant got ROYALLY SMASHED!!!He got so Smashed that at the end of the drinking bout he Stood up... SALUTED!!! and fell down because he was so DRUNK!!! ROFL:-)))

welll they took him back proceed to take him home or so CARL says...

Now for the FUN PART...

shortly thereafter on the base's BULLENTIN BOARD.a series of STRANGE PHOTOS turned UP!!!

It showed said Sarg in a FETAL POSTION WITH NO CLOTHES ON!!!! ROFL.... The top Sarg NEVER COULD figure out WHO TOOK THOSE PHOTOS!!!! ROFL:-))))

[SamKeck]

Okinawa sea stories, huh? Try this one.

As a young Marine, I spent a few days at Camp Sukeran one time, so naturally first chance we get, my buddy and I head out for the vil to check out the babes and drink some of the local saki.

Long story short, we ended up on the second floor of some gadawful bar in downtown Naha that night, both got plastered as hell, and I wake up in the Naval Hospital the next morning with two broken legs.

I hurt like crazy and was carrying a hangover the size of an Ontos. Nobody seems to know how I got there and what happened me, except that my buddy brought me in and then left right away to make company roll call at 0530.

Soon as evening visitors call sounds, my buddy shows up and I asked what the hell happened last night.

He says "Your raggedy rear end was so drunk last night that you bet that mommasan $20 bucks that you could jump out that window and fly all the way around that building. She took the bet and you gave it a try."

"Thanks a lot, pal" I said. "Why the hell didn't you try to stop me."

"Well," he says "I was so messed up that I kinda thought you could do it ... so I had a sawbuck riding on you myself."