Thu, 06, Jun 2002 10:45:00 PM

by Charles Miller on June 6, 2002

I can't remember, but who described the Navy as "Rum, sodomy and the lash"?

(I ask because the TV just reported that "It's acknowledged that a culture of alcohol abuse exists amongst some sailors", as if that was news.)

Update: I'm informed that an aide of Winston Churchill said "the only traditions of the Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash", and that Churchill always wished he said it.

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