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23rd April 2014, 08:32 AM
#11
Re: Your photo in your discharge book
There is some skinny bugger in mine. This guy must have charmed a few in his day Terry.
{terry scouse}
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23rd April 2014, 09:01 AM
#12
Re: Your photo in your discharge book
There is a rather villainous looking lad holding a number plate in my first book(1968) Then a younger Me who needs a hair cut in the second (1973)and finally a debonair looking young man that can't be me in the third (1988) I find it amazing the difference of 20 years at sea shows to the aging process.
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23rd April 2014, 03:21 PM
#13
Re: Your photo in your discharge book
This is the photo in one of my books with a beard.
The one the Immigration in L.A. thought wasnt me, after I had shaved.
I look like Rasputin so I guess that was the reason why,
This photo was taken 40 years ago, I look younger now than I did then.
Cheers
Brian.
Last edited by Captain Kong; 23rd April 2014 at 03:23 PM.
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23rd April 2014, 04:57 PM
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Re: Your photo in your discharge book

Originally Posted by
Captain Kong
I look like Rasputin so I guess that was the reason why,
T
Brian.
Don't you just love the Yanks, I always had trouble in the McCarthy period because my name was Ivan, as was my father's
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24th April 2014, 02:52 AM
#15
Re: Your photo in your discharge book
Some of my women friends say I am still a good looking guy when I show them my ID photo nothing like being a Harry James
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24th April 2014, 05:05 AM
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Re: Your photo in your discharge book
Hi Brian.
Why are you looking to your left, are you expecting the Fuzz to come through the door?
Cheers Des

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24th April 2014, 06:18 AM
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Re: Your photo in your discharge book

Originally Posted by
Des Taff Jenkins
Hi Brian.
Why are you looking to your left, are you expecting the Fuzz to come through the door?
Cheers Des


No, he is concerned about the Fuzz on his face.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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24th April 2014, 08:27 AM
#18
Re: Your photo in your discharge book
#18... Trying to think of Boris Karloff Richard... JS
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24th April 2014, 08:34 AM
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Re: Your photo in your discharge book
I think it was a better beard than John Ss.
sorry john but it is the truth I think.
Cheers
Brian
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24th April 2014, 08:45 AM
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Re: Your photo in your discharge book
[QUOTE=leratty;167359]
Ivan that is so funny because your name is Ivan they have a huge amount of Russians in US so have they considered all with that name communist agitators silly beggars.
Richard I kid you not, I was 17 at the time and grilled for some time, about my religion, favourite colour (which I stupidly said without thinking was red) that set the alarm bells ringing, why was I called Ivan, why was my father called Ivan, didn't tell them about my Irish grandmothers dalliance with the Russian Naval Attache in Dublin (that's another story!), would never have got a shore pass. I mean at 17 (looked 13) I was a great threat to the USA, but that's how they were.
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