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    In the days of Admiral Nelson
    Or it might have been before
    The Navy got it’s heritage
    Its customs and it’s law.
    Now some of these were good things
    and some of them were not
    but they’ll never find how to replace
    that daily little tot.
    It isn’t served haphazard
    like tea or even beer
    but with pencil book and water
    and other useless gear.
    “Jack Dusty” and his “winger”
    perform a sacred rite
    they brew a swill called “ two and one”
    On which we have to fight.
    With bottle jug and fanny
    we muster at the shrine
    “get into line you sailors”
    “that first fanny’s mine!”
    Then with murmered incantations
    Such as “seven, one, two”
    the high priest and his acolyte
    dispense the holy brew.
    When the seas are breaking over
    and you feel you’ve had enough
    when the “chef” has dropped his tatties
    and his “oppos” burnt the duff!
    when your lockers full of hogwash
    and your hammocks gone to rot
    there’s nothing that can quite touch it
    your daily little “tot”!


    R.I.P.
    31st July 1970 the day of the last tot.

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    Bill, I recall hearing that those with a beard, received an extra tot.
    Hence lots of hairy faced sailors.
    Any truth in that story?

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    Hi Den.
    Depending on who was serving the tot if you were Hairy ar*seed you may have had doubles.
    Cheers Des

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    Of course we would like to say that it has gone so that Den can improve the quality of his tab nabs, but the fact remains he still uses rum essence.....bloody cheap skate.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

    Life is too short to blend in.

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    Never heard that story before Dennis, I had a beard laterly, never ever got an extra tot.

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