Yup... pretty darned funny, alright.  I'm currently Emailing back-and-forth with a CS-2 who was on VEGA (AF-59) back in '62 (my first ship).... we're chuckling about some of his "concoctions" that he used to brew up. something like that next-to-last recipe of chili.  That crazy bastard had me in the galley one afternoon, while he was tending a huge batch of beef-stew (I was doing my 90 daze [sic] of mess-cooking at the time)... all of a sudden he fakes the sound of "heavy-seas-mixed-with-greasy-pork-chops-and-stawberry-ice-cream-throwing-up" (you remember) and drops a can of the stew (which he'd secretly dipped out of the batch) into it, so it looked like it came OUT OF HIM!  He wiped his mouth on his apron and kept on stirring... acted like nothing was wrong, then says "Hey Dailey, you wanna' taste this for me?"  I told him to f**k himself and ate some mid-rat sandwiches that night for dinner.  He told me the truth, but as a shiney-new SA, I didn't believe him for a minute.

 

Now, THAT's funny.

 

Tom

 

NOTES for LANDLUBBERS:   A CS-2 is a "Commissaryman 2nd. Class" (cook)... an SA is a "Seaman Apprentice (E-2)... Mess Cooking is the Navy term for "KP" as it's known in the Army