Monday, November 16, 2009

A Ten-Year Old Nails What Being a Captain Is All About


A friend sent me this, written by a 10-year old boy and published in the newsletter of the Society of Marine Port Engineers.

11 comments:

  1. Leave it to a 10-year old to let the cat out of the bag. Now EVERYONE will want to be a Captain.

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  2. They left out "and someday if I am a captain, I may be able to meet my daddy, who my mommy tells me was also a captain. And if my brothers and sisters become captains, they may be able to meet their daddies too."

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  3. Wyle D. OatesNovember 16, 2009

    Hey, that all happened BEFORE we were Captains!

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  4. Didn't know Captains were such chick magnets. Maybe CW or Mudge will share with us some of their exploits.

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  5. "Didn't know Captains were such chick magnets."

    Duh. Why do you think the song goes "Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán".

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  6. Maxwell's 5th Equation of Electro-Chick-Magnetism:

    Captain's uniform = puppy + baby

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  7. Mudge--go on and tell them about the Harvard girl in Crete....burnish my Conservative credentials a little....

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  8. You swore me to secrecy back then and I never break a promise.

    So our intrepid young Naval Officer and future ship captain/blogger/politician is at a bar in Crete talking to not one but two attractive 20-something American women on vacation whe...never mind. I just can't do it.

    Let me just leave it with: even THAT didn't sway CW from his political principles. It was then that I knew he was destined for national office.

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  9. Harvard women are notoriously ugly. Did you have the old beer-goggles on? What did you talk about, polypeptides or plasma physics?

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  10. GHD - I will answer for CW. As I recall, what they discussed was the Education Bill being passed in Congress that President GHW Bush threatened to veto.

    Oh, and these Harvard co-eds were apparently (according to CW) exceptions to the Harvard rule: good looking AND dumb. (the latter not necessarily being an exception to a Harvard rule when it comes to politics).

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  11. LOL What do you think XO should I share this with the skipper

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