Didn't you guys always use the term Pussars for RN ?

Post #89,215 by dmarker 3/18/03 5:21:36 PM 3/18/03 5:25:28 PM Reply	Didn't you guys always use the term Pussars for RN ? That is the way all RN Brits I know, describe the RN, even in Oz we knew & used that term. It is an old word dating back to the earliest days of the RN when it was manned by jolly jack-tar(s). There is a bar (or a brand of Rhum, or both) on an Island in the caribean called Pussars & I wondered if the word related somehow to Rum & the traditional Rum tot (was that still being done in your days? - Senior Service fags & a tot of raw Rhum (I understood it was so thick it was cut with a knife as it was poured, as well as being so overproof it needed extensive watering down - I heard it was also used to heal wounds + raise the dead (for one last fight))). AS for Naafi - not really related to my post other than Naafi fed people shyte <grin> But the idiot my barb was aimed at just earned it yet again in World Conflict Forum Cheers Doug Spectres from our past: Beware the future when your children & theirs come after you for what you may have been willing to condone today - dsm 2003 Motivational: When performing activities, ask yourself if the person you most want to be would do, or say, it - dsm 2003 Edited by dmarker March 18, 2003, 05:25:28 PM EST Didn't you guys always use the term Pussars for RN ? That is the way all RN Brits I know, describe the RN, even in Oz we knew & used that term. It is an old word dating back to the earliest days of the RN when it was manned by jolly jack-tar(s). There is a bar on an Island in the caribean called Purrars Rum Bar & I wondered if the word related to the traditional Rum tot (was that still being done in your days? - Senior Service fags & a tot of raw Rhum). AS for Naafi - not really related to my post other than Naafi fed people shyte <grin> But the idiot my barb was aimed at just earned it yet again. Cheers Doug Spectres from our past: Beware the future when your children & theirs come after you for what you may have been willing to condone today - dsm 2003 Motivational: When performing activities, ask yourself if the person you most want to be would do, or say, it - dsm 2003 Collapse All History
Post #89,235 by boxley 3/18/03 5:48:16 PM Reply	we were matelots, a pussar is the pursor who holds the cash liquor and stores (and has dates with certain crewman in the old male only navy) getting powdered for the pussar was a phrase I heard when dolling up to go out. On payday you had a pay assembly where you marched up by ranks, bellowed out your name and number and the pussar gave you your biweekly sum of eleven quid 50pence. Saluted and marched back to rank. matelots generic tars, pussar officers in charge of money and liquor. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]</br> To a lot of people in California hunting anything but the wild tofualope was equivelent to sacarificing babies to satan. S.M. Stirling
Post #90,834 by dmarker 3/23/03 7:32:02 PM Reply	Matelot Aha - (pron Matlow) French for Sailor - HTF did England & the proud RN & Senior Service, ever accept use of a frog word to describe the pride of the Brit empire (Jack Tars) <grin>. Cheers Doug Spectres from our past: Beware the future when your children & theirs come after you for what you may have been willing to condone today - dsm 2003 Motivational: When performing activities, ask yourself if the person you most want to be would do, or say, it - dsm 2003
Post #90,840 by boxley 3/23/03 7:48:48 PM Reply	beats the tar out of me :-) [link\|http://www.witzend.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/\|http://www.witzend.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/] [link\|http://www.simonstown.com/tourism/nuisance/nuisance.htm\|http://www.simonstow...ance/nuisance.htm] [link\|http://www.civvie-street.co.uk/jargon.htm\|http://www.civvie-st....co.uk/jargon.htm] [link\|http://www.kaomag.com/terms.html\|http://www.kaomag.com/terms.html] thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org] To a lot of people in California hunting anything but the wild tofualope was equivelent to sacarificing babies to satan. S.M. Stirling
Post #92,750 by dmarker 3/29/03 3:57:32 AM 3/29/03 8:10:20 AM Reply	Ar har me matlow matey, thart dictionary sez it arllll 1 Pussar - as Bill said previously 2 Pussars - pertaining to the service, typically issue of stores, clothing etc: (Pussars soap, Pussars bike) 2 was close to as I understood the word, 1 I now know about. Thanks Doug (I bet that big dog in post 2 kept some of the WRENs happy (and the odd matelow <vbg>) Cheers Doug Spectres from our past: Beware the future when your children & theirs come after you for what you may have been willing to condone today - dsm 2003 Motivational: When performing activities, ask yourself if the person you most want to be would do, or say, it - dsm 2003 Edited by dmarker March 29, 2003, 08:10:20 AM EST Expand All History

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