CPO Joseph Grant928686<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Back in the day if we got stuck mooring next to a tender we, as well as generations of Submariners before us, discovered one of the best ways to put a skimmer quarterdeck watch through the overhead was to say "Permission to cross their patio daddy-o" instead of "permission to come aboard. It was so much fun to watch them stroke out.Want to watch a Skimmer go apoplectic?2015-08-30T17:16:21-04:00CPO Joseph Grant928686<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Back in the day if we got stuck mooring next to a tender we, as well as generations of Submariners before us, discovered one of the best ways to put a skimmer quarterdeck watch through the overhead was to say "Permission to cross their patio daddy-o" instead of "permission to come aboard. It was so much fun to watch them stroke out.Want to watch a Skimmer go apoplectic?2015-08-30T17:16:21-04:002015-08-30T17:16:21-04:00LTC Stephen F.928691<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Sounds like a lot of fun to watch <a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="461542" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/461542-cpo-joseph-grant">CPO Joseph Grant</a>.Response by LTC Stephen F. made Aug 30 at 2015 5:18 PM2015-08-30T17:18:36-04:002015-08-30T17:18:36-04:00SSgt Terry P.928720<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Dang it--speak English, <a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="461542" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/461542-cpo-joseph-grant">CPO Joseph Grant</a> LOLResponse by SSgt Terry P. made Aug 30 at 2015 5:41 PM2015-08-30T17:41:11-04:002015-08-30T17:41:11-04:00CPT Private RallyPoint Member928832<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Sounds like something Kookie would say on the old TV series, 77 Sunset Strip. :-)Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 30 at 2015 6:51 PM2015-08-30T18:51:22-04:002015-08-30T18:51:22-04:00PO1 William "Chip" Nagel929411<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>That's not the only thing you Bubbleheads did to aggravate us CPO Joseph Grant. I remember the T-Shirt. "There are 2 kinds of Ships, Submarines and Targets" with the picture of a "Skimmer" in the Crosshairs of a Periscope. LOL!Response by PO1 William "Chip" Nagel made Aug 31 at 2015 3:08 AM2015-08-31T03:08:02-04:002015-08-31T03:08:02-04:00PO2 Steven Erickson929495<div class="images-v2-count-1"><div class="content-picture image-v2-number-1" id="image-57911"> <div class="social_icons social-buttons-on-image">
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