THE MESS DECK SAYS

Dit-Dah, Volume 2, Issue 3, 16 January 1940, Page 1

THE MESS DECK SAYS

They tell us that the real reason for this vaccination business is that it’s .just something else to keep our minds off having nothing on our minds. .. . . Stuff Walters and Sjt ’A. Smith have declared themselves the I) Dart Champions (undisputed), and their reputed aim in life is to be professors of Dartology. And they call this a WAR L... A wisebrain on the mess deck says there’s oi)e thing, anyway, in which we have got "the wood" on the folks buck home. When the pubs are closing at 6PM in Enzed, he says, it is only 4PM here, and we’d still Have ex' couple of drinking hours left - if we had any pubs !..... Dedicated to Hammock-Hunter "Baker by JANA-a., : Hammocks high, hammocks low, Hammocks swinging to and fro;, Round the railing, round the square, Hammocks lying everywhere. Keep on moving, to the right: Do not stumble, do not fight. Poor old Reg is in a stew: A hammock loose — so what's to do? When routine orders called last Saturday ’’Friday 13 Jan,” it was merely to fool the enemy should a copy of orders have fallen into his hands. (That's the Orderly Room’s s t ory, anyway)..... Captain Feeney's Invincible No 4 squad is making such good progress at flagwagging that it now tells us that gesticulations from the- native crew are being treated and decoded as semaphore..... Listen for Chief Nutrition Officer .W. (’’Menus Made Easy”) Miller’s broadcast on Culinary .art at Nine Bells (Spinach mean t ime) every night....