Dirty Tom Muir

[Wayne Johnson]

Everyday I go out and shout:

Mein ishkabbible!

This has kept the mastodons away quite successfuly.

I dare not stop

or 

we would be overrun

with 

mastodons!

RB
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Madelon Umlauf" <madelon@austincc.edu>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:19 PM
Subject: Dirty Tom Muir


> Some of you know Dirty Tom Muir.
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> I met a colleague of Dirty Tom last night at a cheese
> & wine thing. He is a civilian ex-submariner who
> like Tom is in USNavy submarine research. We
> mostly chatted about interesting subjects; he also
> said that Dirty Tom's recently wed wife (Sharon?)
> "had literally saved his life." On inquiry this meant that she
> had gotten Dirty Tom to cut down on his booze jones.
> 
> Dirty Tom like yours truly has a pee aitch dee. 
> I couldnt help envy the Dirty Tom's various 
> postings around the world whereas I had to stay
> at home and NOT live in Italy, Monterrey, CA 
> and currently in inland Mississippi at some Navy. 
> facility there.
> 
> Michael Pastorius with whom I was chatting had
> with his wife returned recently from a long posting 
> in London. He is a tall man with a splendid red 
> mustache, somewhere over 60 who currently runs 
> Navy submarine research at UT at the Pickle research 
> center. 
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> As I had just met a Canadian submariner at a
> pre-Christmas party who told me about Canada's 
> recentl purchase of 4 poorly maintained mothballed 
> English submarines, Pastorius filled me in on other 
> aspects of this weird submarine deal.
> 
> As for why Canada would need to replace 4
> submarines in its fleet, that neither the Canadian 
> nor Pastorius had any explanation for since 
> Canada has no known enemies. 
> 
> As for why the US needs to do cutting edge
> submarine development, Pastorius reminded
> me that if we stop doing it, we lose the ability
> to do it. Use it or lose. 
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> He said that there are 2 four star admirals in
> Hawaii who are autonomous of Washington. 
> They assume a possible Chinese submarine 
> threat in the future. This may be ridiculously
> unlikely from a historical point of view. But
> from the viewpoint of keep doing it or you'll 
> lose it (cutting edge submarine research that 
> is) it is a slam dunk.
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