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Old 03-14-2009, 09:04 PM   #14
rfndong
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Originally Posted by Rhianne View Post
Is "sailor/pirate buddies" a euphemism for 'gay lovers'?

Young men, all that time away from sea with few or no girls, it seems only natural that relationships would form.

Homosexuality was punishible by death in the British Navy at one point - was it Churchill who described the Navy using the phrase "rum, sodomy and the lash"?
A submarine leaves port with 120 men and returns with 60 couples.

And no, it wasn't.
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/...cfm?pageid=112
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