Woobie

Same idea but a much lighter filling.

Just a guess but I'm thinking with my calibrated Mk1* arm about 1/2 a Lb?

Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)

paddyofurniture wrote:

Woobies make great blankets to sleep in the field not using a sleeping bag.

Yes, they did … I had a but pack that I used in the field , had my strength ng hammock and my poncho liner with my poncho. 4 tent spikes , bottle of garlic tabs , baby powder, and some pogie bait ! After I got stationed stateside in a RDU . All i needed was that most of the time …

"White Rhino"

"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields

Ya had ta go there dintcha?

"The Marines in China before WW II were issued candy (Baby Ruths, Tootsie Rolls, etc.) as part of their their ration supplements. At the time, sugar and other assorted sweets were rare commodities in China and much in demand by the Chinese, so the troops found the candy useful for barter in town.

The Chinese word for prostitute, roughly translated, is "pogey". Thus, Marines being Marines, candy became "Pogey Bait"."

Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)

"POGEY" is a term all too well known by Canadians...it's the term used for people on UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. (ie: I'm drawing pogey right now)
Seems to me theres an awful lot of folks here now "on the pogey"..but the gov't aint publishing those stats, & keep telling us that things are "ok".
Fool's paradise.

Loose wimmen tightened here

My knowledge base is truly expanding LOL

hoadie wrote:

"POGEY" is a term all too well known by Canadians...it's the term used for people on UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. (ie: I'm drawing pogey right now)
Seems to me theres an awful lot of folks here now "on the pogey"..but the gov't aint publishing those stats, & keep telling us that things are "ok".
Fool's paradise.

In B.C. we called it 'pokey'.

hoadie wrote:

Thats because you have a "speech impediment!"

When I lived on the left coast (back in mid 70's) we called it "POGEY".
IIRC, back then there was a disparency twixt west coasters benefits, & cod fishers on east coast.
Seems the East coasters (the COD FATHERS) were able to draw benfits longer & @ a higher amount back then.
Lotsa complaints...

Funny story about pogey, back in the day when I was young and immature there was no higher aspiration than to go on pogey for the Winter and become a ski bum at Whistler. There was a group of about 10 of us that rented a cabin, split the costs and those of us that weren't Lifties went on pogey for the season. We even went so far as to buy matching T shirts that had UIC SKI TEAM (Unemployment Insurance Commission) emblazoned on them. I only did that for one Winter at Whistler as I soon got my sh!t together and went to college but I heard it eventually caught up to those who did it year after year, finally making the local news and causing a scandal over government waste and abuses of the system.

Woobie for everyone!

Bill it to Hoadie!

Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.