The powerful chit.

[lyric1]

While I was back in Australia for a holiday I was looking through some books that belonged to my grandfather that was published during the war & it had this poem in it from a RAAF service man. There was no scanner at my uncles house so I just used a camera so excuse the poor quality of the pic.



This may belong in the officers club if so sorry about putting it in this forum it just seemed more appropriate in light of how often the word watermelon is used in the text while playing.

[TequilaChaser]

but in my military days "The all Powerful Chit" was something to never be without........... for you could possibly lose your mustache....... or any number of other things

today in the game watermelon is used as masked vulgarity

where as the word watermelon ( think CH part of chicken and then it"  ie....sounds like watermelon ) was something one used or aquired to gain privledges, or to gain request thru the chain of command....

my bad.... if you already knew the true meaning of the word in "military language"  lyric1    

[lyric1]

but in my military days "The all Powerful Chit" was something to never be without........... for you could possibly lose your mustache....... or any number of other things

today in the game watermelon is used as masked vulgarity

where as the word watermelon ( think CH part of chicken and then it"  ie....sounds like watermelon ) was something one used or aquired to gain privledges, or to gain request thru the chain of command....

my bad.... if you already knew the true meaning of the word in "military language"  lyric1    

No I didn't know what it meant I just knew it couldn't be like it is used on our Vox though. Thanks for the clarification.

[Blooz]

Yup, TC is correct.

The word watermelon is used correctly here.

A watermelon is a written pass or a token not a way to avoid the profanity filter as per rule 6.

[uptown]

You're so lucky to have these kind of keepsakes. Those pics you once posted of you granddad on a camel in North Africa are treasures.
My granddad never was much for keeping things 

[greens]

Boy am i glad we have flush toilets now, grew up with outhouses. outhouses was better than indoor dumpsite. LOL wheww thank god for some good chit.

[lyric1]

Boy am i glad we have flush toilets now, grew up with outhouses. outhouses was better than indoor dumpsite. LOL wheww thank god for some good chit.

Only thing I had to worry about with out house's in Australia were spiders & snakes
Alaska out in the sticks would be interesting Polar bears & appendages falling off in the cold.

[lyric1]

You're so lucky to have these kind of keepsakes. Those pics you once posted of you granddad on a camel in North Africa are treasures.
My granddad never was much for keeping thing's

I always have liked that picture.




 He did some other collecting as well While in the middle East I am not sure where? but there was a museum that was in danger of being over run by the enemy so the Australian troops?? well lets say for the good of history helped them selves Any ways he ended up with two ancient swords that are in the thousands of years in age.

I remember getting them down off the wall as a kid they were so heavy I dropped one & impaled the hard wood floor my mother gave me a good slap for that one.

Now my uncle I was visiting was in WWII and has this souvenir he collected while he was on patrol in New Guinea. It is part of a propeller from a Japanese Zero they had found & some one had a hack saw & they proceeded to cut up the plane & this is the part my Uncle ended up with. While still in the army he polished it up & turned it in to a game of some sort using matchsticks as well as putting his name & the AIF logo on it.

The hole at the rear looked to be a casting imperfection while it was being made? At least I think it is.

[SIM]

Looks like a home-made cribbage board!

[Masherbrum]

Looks like a home-made cribbage board!

Yep, was gonna say the same thing.

[LLogann]

Good Chit, thanks lyric1!

 

[BaldEagl]

Boy am i glad we have flush toilets now, grew up with outhouses. outhouses was better than indoor dumpsite. LOL wheww thank god for some good chit.

I grew up with an outhouse (frigid northern MN), hand pump for water in the kitchen, an out-building Sauna (being of good Finnish descent) and a hand cranked phone on a party line.  OMG... I'm old.  Eventually everything was modernized as I grew up but my parents didn't get an indoor shower until I had graduated high school and left home.  My aunt and uncle had a wood fired oven.  I don't think that ever was modernized but it was nice to go to their house in the winter because the oven was always going because it was also how they heated thier house.