Word: splash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral signs his proper orders with the name 'Jack' though his proper Christian name's 'John' ; but below decks everybody calls him 'Splash Guts.' I don't know why this is, except maybe it's because he's so full of splash and dash, and he's got more guts than any man in the whole Royal bloody Navy, or, for that matter, any other bloody (biological participle) navy afloat...
...will attack and two will ram,' he says to the captain. 'Will we attack, sir?' the Captain says, probably thinkin' that Tovey, bein' the admiral, might pick the easier of the jobs. 'No, you bloody fool, we'll ram!' old Splash says. Just then the Warspite* behind us signaled and asked him what the bloody hell he was doin'. 'Am pursuin' small detachment of Italian destroyers,' he signals back. But somehow the Warspite and some more of our battleships got in between us and them, and that...
...brand-new uniform. Bein' on the smallish side, the gold braid on his sleeve reached near up to his elbows. A soldier come up to him and says: 'Excuse me, could you tell me what time the train for So-and-so leaves?' Old Splash Guts drew himself up and looked at him. 'Excuse me,' he says, 'but do you happen to think I'm a bloody station master...
...bottle of sweets and one on the Admiral like. There'd been some complaints about it, and I heard the flag officer say: 'Shall I take your bottle of sweets down to the cabin, sir, and put 'em away?' And old Splash Guts answers back, very weary: 'Oh, what does it matter where you put 'em? Them bloody scroungers'll find 'em anyway...
...further splash made by the Warspite...