Humor in Uniform 8/23/2010

[R J]

8/23/2010
As his destroyer entered fabled Pearl Harbor, my friend stood alongside a cocky lieutenant and the Hawaiian harbor pilot.  “So tell me,” said the lieutenant to the pilot, “is your state pronounced ‘Huh-WI-ee’ or ‘Huh-VI-ee’?”   “We say ‘Huh-VI-ee,’ the pilot answered.  “And that sign over there,” asked the lieutenant, pointing ashore, “is it pronounced ‘Pi-Pee-Lie-Nee’?”   “You could say it that way,” said the pilot.  “But we Huh-Vi-ans usually just say ‘Pipeline’.”
Bruce Clark