snipe hunts

[Bill Palmer]

excuse the typo...the word in the 2nd para of previous post on this subj
should be "routinely"

Bill P
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> Engineers, regardless of rank/rate, are called snipes, and AFAIK, have
> been
> for lo these many years.  The chief engineer is the "chief snipe".  This
> is
> not disprespectful...just a nom de guerre of sorts.
>
> The engine rooms and firerooms are routines called the "snipe locker".
>
> I envy you your service on USS Rochester. The Oregon City class heavy
> cruisers were beautiful ships.
>
> Bill P
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>>  Well, that's interesting, officer and or enlisted?  Never heard it
>> during Korea on CA124. But I was a lofty fire control tech.
>>
>> On 9/21/2010 8:02 AM, Bill Palmer wrote:
>>> In the ships of the US Navy, the engineers are called "snipes".
>>>
>>> Bill Palmer
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>>>> I knew about snipe hunts before I knew about snipe--and actually
>>>> thought that snipe were mythical beasts! I was quite surprised to find
>>>> otherwise.
>>>>
>>>> Barbara
>>>>
>>>> Barbara Need
>>>> Ithaca
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>>>> On 20 Sep 2010, at 11:49 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> At 9/20/2010 11:05 AM, David A. Daniel wrote:
>>>>>> In Straw Dogs (1971) the bad guys take Dustin Hoffman on a snipe
>>>>>> hunt. Story
>>>>>> takes place in England and Hoffman's character, being American, has
>>>>>> never
>>>>>> heard of a snipe hunt and doesn't know it is a setup. The bad guys
>>>>>> want to
>>>>>> get him out of the house so they can rape his wife. I frankly don't
>>>>>> remember
>>>>>> if I knew what a snipe hunt was before seeing the movie in 1971 or
>>>>>> not, but
>>>>>> the point is the writer and/or director (Sam Peckinpah) figured it
>>>>>> was a
>>>>>> term Americans would not know.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I knew about snipe hunts in my youth, circa 1948-1950.  My
>>>>> recollection is that one was proposed by the older male (summer)
>>>>> campers for the younger.  It was clear what a snipe hunt involved --
>>>>> going out with flashlights late at night (after the counselors had
>>>>> done their bed check, which of course was part of the allure), to
>>>>> find the elusive snipe.  Flashlights not to be turned on until the
>>>>> snipe had been located.  I don't remember what was supposed to be so
>>>>> interesting about them.  Perhaps that universal appeal to pubescent
>>>>> males: to surprise someone in the act of copulation.  Nor do I
>>>>> remember if the hunt actually took place and any of the gullible
>>>>> went, but in any case I didn't.  (In those days I was very skeptical
>>>>> of almost any proposal I heard.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Joel
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