Pat Dollard | Young Americans

Which, my wife asked, “What are hash marks?”

I started thinking about jargon specific to being in the military and was reminded of the “Wogs”, short for pollywogs and these were sailors who were about to cross the International Dateline but hadn’t yet (making them Golden Dragons after “initiations), which got me remembering a Wog intitiation week once where we had put tobasco sauce into squirt guns.

They made us quit that after the first few times Wogs complained. I remember seeing a guy just drop screaming when he got hit in the face with a stream of tobasco sauce once…like one o fthose…fainting goats…