To the bar, old mates!

**Attila57** · 02-15-2012, 00:22

To celebrate a new (unexpected) medal! To the bar!

Your health!

Attilio

**The Royal Hajj** · 02-15-2012, 00:56

A glass of Grog for you sir!

**David Manley** · 02-15-2012, 01:43

Another round, Bob :)

**Berthier** · 02-15-2012, 04:23

Congrats Attilio, we can get "under the weather" together!

**Comte de Brueys** · 02-15-2012, 07:08

Congratulation Monsieur Attila.

**Attila57** · 02-15-2012, 07:29

Thx!! ;)

**Coog** · 02-15-2012, 09:27

Congratulations! Time to get "three sheets to the wind"!

**csadn** · 02-15-2012, 17:56

With all the trips to the bar everyone's making, pretty soon I'm going to be the only one here -- the rest of you will be waking up on ships with someone leaning over you saying, "YER IN THE NAVY NOW, BOY, ARR! DID YA ENJOY YER RUM DRINKS, SMARTARSE, AYE?"

(Bonus points to anyone who can place that reference without looking it up. :) )

**David Manley** · 02-15-2012, 23:00

With all the trips to the bar everyone's making, pretty soon I'm going to be the only one here

Never been drinking with the RN then, eh? :D Of course we don't have the disadvantage of running "dry" ships

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq32-1.htm

General Order 99 - described by one of my USN chums as "unfortunate" (and delivered with such a sense of irony that you could have believed be was a Brit :) )

Interestingly though I've heard it said that the reason that coffee is referred to as "Joe" in the US is because the order was approved by Josephus Daniels, and from that point on coffee was the strongest drink allowed on board. Is that correct, or does it derive from some other source?

**Attila57** · 02-16-2012, 02:40

Originally Posted by David Manley

Interestingly though I've heard it said that the reason that coffee is referred to as "Joe" in the US is because the order was approved by Josephus Daniels, and from that point on coffee was the strongest drink allowed on board. Is that correct, or does it derive from some other source?

Nice info. I knew only "a cup of Java". I found this explanation that confirm your.

It is navy history.
1914 Cup of Joe Josephus Daniels was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson. Among his Naval reforms were inaugurating the practice of making 100 fleet sailors eligible for the Naval Academy, the introduction of women into the service, and on July 1, 1914, he issued general order 99, which rescinded Article 827, the officers' wine mess. Rumor has it that from that time on, the strongest drink aboard Navy ships was coffee, and over the years, a cup of coffee became known as "a cup of Joe."

**csadn** · 02-16-2012, 16:07

Originally Posted by David Manley

Never been drinking with the RN then, eh?

No -- I can't process alcohol.

I've pulled my fair share of pranks on the besotted, tho' -- granted, I've never managed to get someone so drunk he woke up on a ship going to a war zone. Yet. >:)