Richard:

[snip]
This reminds me of a time when I challenged our Chief Bosun's mate
with: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."

The Chief always had the last word with logic like yours:
"You hold his head under water and suck on his ass."

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC
[snip]

Heh, heh... memorable. I love it... but....

Are you sure he didn't also use the "f" word?

It's my recollection that Chief Bosun's Mates do focus on the ass a lot...
but not without a few well chosen "f" word interjections.

Too many years ago to remember, I had the con on a tin can along
side a carrier at sea readying to pass a sick matloes over a bosun's chair.
I was holding the con "real steady" in heavy seas +/- 1/2 degree or so,
grinning to myself from ear to ear at how well I was doing, the Chief
Bosun's
Mate ruined my pride and reverie when he hollered down the blow tube,
"Sailor
if you don't keep this fuxxxxg tin can on fuxxxxg course I'll come down this
fuxxxxg ladder and stuff that fuxxxxg wheel up your 'ass' spoke by fuxxxxg
spoke."

Now that's Chief Bosun's Mate talk! :-)

--
Peter K1PO
Indialantic By-the-Sea, FL