Friday, June 10, 2011

It's Miller Time!

An Occasional Correspondent sends along the following...

Heh.  I LIKE that!  The "Miller Time!" phrase gets a lot o' use in the military and I have one such example in my Emergency Tee Shirt supply, to wit:


That's a relic given to me by SN2 back in the day when he was serving as an A-ganger on Boomers, most specifically the USS James K. Polk.  I used to wear that shirt on my outings to the coffee shops in Berserkeley on Sunday mornings as a conversation-starter and it NEVER failed me in that regard. 

7 comments:

  1. Not to change the subject, but I just read a history about Polk's presidency.

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  2. Was it worth your time, Skip?

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  3. Yes, but then I'm a bit of a history buff, though it was more biographical than much of anything else.
    The main impression I got was that Polk wasn't exactly a dynamic person.

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  4. I would've enjoyed hearing some of those conversations that great T shirt started in Berserkely. What a place!

    In the late '60s I taught in Columbia, TN, which is the home of J.K. Polk. He wasn't a dynamic person as Uncle Skip says, but (to offer a bit of a defense for a famous Tennessean), I found this in Wiki:

    "[Among historians, Polk is known] for his ability to set an agenda and achieve all of it. Polk has been called the 'least known consequential president' of the United States.

    Setting an agenda and sticking to it and doing things with positive consequences. Not too shabby. Be nice if a candidate today could claim the same descriptors.

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  5. Love the tee shirt and the imagined conversations it inspired!

    Wv: berates. I'll bet that's what some of them Berserkers did to you!

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  6. The T-Shirt looks like one of those Olongapo City Jobs!!!!!!!!
    Our variation was an Intruder in Swordsmen colours leaving a mushroom cloud in Downtown Tehran some thirty years ago......

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  7. Dan & Moogie: In re: conversations. You KNOW how moonbats are... they can't resist bein' all morally-superior and that. Good Times were had.

    Glenn: I don't think the shirt came from Olangapo. The Polk was home-ported in Charleston with occasional stops in Holy Loch. I like yer version, tho!

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