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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy by vegardx on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @03:52AM (#20028094)
Reminds me a little of this joke:

  A Marine and a sailor are taking a piss. The Marine goes to leave without washing up.

  Sailor says, "In the Navy... ...they teach us to wash our hands."

  The Marine turns to him and says: "In the Marines, they teach us not to piss on our hands."
It's funny, because it's true. We went weeks in the same clothes without much more than the wet wipes packaged with MREs. But the moral of the story is to wash up when you can.
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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy by glandium on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:07AM (#20028153)
That joke comes in many flavors doesn't it? I know a version with 3 Engineers, one from MS, one from Oracle and one from Intel. Essentially, this one: http://www.jokes.net/threeengineers.htm but with different companies.
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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy by Kurtz79 on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @08:27AM (#20029347)
How do you tell a white collar worker from a blue collar worker?

The white collar worker washes his hands after going to the bathroom stall, the blue collar worker before.

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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy by oblio on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:29AM (#20028241)
My guess, the joke is as old as time and there's variations of it with different nationalities instead of professions.
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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy by kragen on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:53AM (#20028356)
I heard it with universities. Harvard and Yale, I think.
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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy by InitialLastName on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @07:18PM (#20035379)
The version I always used is "Difference between a university and a tech school"
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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy by Gupie on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:39AM (#20030537)
Said by Churchill, Eton vs Harrow.
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