On 8/26/03 5:29 PM, in article ,
"BUFDRVR" wrote:

She denied even using that appliance but the
callsign stuck and she would go out of her way to try to stop it.

Which is the #1 way of making sure the call sign sticks!


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"

We had a ground pounder do that during one of our "Name the New Guy" Games
in the RR. I happened to be the host that day. His last name was Boone.
We put up the standard...

Ace
Lefty
Snake
Booger
Butch and so on...

Then we took suggestions from the peanut gallery and somebody shouted

"Daniel!"

Then there was a

"Pat!"

"Ain't none of you sons-a-bitches calling me PAT!" Fumed the new MMCO...

"Pat it is," I said. Of course the whole room full of JO's agreed. He
couldn't get rid of it. You'd think a guy with that much sea time would
have known better.

--Woody