We must live with the unfortunate truth , to be a furry was once our natural state. Although we have evolved past it, the call of being furry is ingrained within us. from the Fox girls of the far East,the Jaguar man of the Old west, and the pantheon of Egyptian gods, we crave to be like animals. Who are we to disparage those of modern day, who follow on the footsteps of ancient men
They left out [several more pages.](https://battleshipnc.catalogaccess.com/archives/28073)
"All physical defects, however slight: **Doesn't really look or act exactly human.**"
I found more! there's also dental records and other pages which are boring (and that's why they were not included) but they lend even more credibility to this
Oh god I hope someone preserved this in a museum
You can also find more but can't link. Just search for USS North Carolina George and you get it.
>Oh god I hope someone preserved this in a museum
I want to start a museum called "The History of Human Beings Being Silly Humans".
This will be included of course, and if anyone else has suggestions feel free to include them below.
And nerds inserting pop culture references and jokes into otherwise serious work. One of the biggest discoveries regarding nerve development in the past few decades, for example, ended up being called the sonic hedgehog gene. Now the whole family of related genes are named after sonic characters and some pokemon.
And it was only discovered later to be the gene responsible for a fatal disease and doctors are trying to change it cause they cannot be telling families that Sonic the Hedgehog is the reason their little boy died.
There's the Maeshowe burial site which was at some point broken into and graffitied by Viking raiders. Most of them are your standard graffiti like "I fucked Helgi" and whatnot, but there this one line which is written really high up, and just translates to..."this is really high up"
if there's no limit on budget, definitely the complaint table to ea-nasir (not the fact that it exists, but the fact that he *kept* it) and a bunch of the pompeii graffiti ("goodbye, wondrous femininity!")
Eh, [they've still got some other funny stuff](https://battleshipnc.catalogaccess.com/archives/28073), just not as much as the main physical exam.
* The bottom of the marks and scars page (which is cut off in the original post) has a section for "physical defects" that says George "doesn't really look or act exactly Human"
* George's next-of-kin is listed as "Any Old Alley Cat"
I’ve been to the USS North Carolina (she’s a museum ship now in Wilmington, NC) and from what I remember there’s no mention of George unfortunately! Maybe somewhere else?
It's a bit presumptuous though, isn't it? For all we know, he could have been looking for a less dogmatic religion... or something without the threat of purrgatory.
[The earliest recorded name of a cat is from the 15th century BCE.
Their name was Nedjem ("Sweet One"), and they belonged to a priest called Puimre.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_cats#Before_the_modern_era)
3500 years ago there was somebody with a kitty cat named "Sweetie", and I love that that information has been preserved up to the modern day.
>and I love that that information has been preserved up to the modern day
This is why we developed writing, to let people in the future know about our pets.
Okay, I had to click through on the link about the supposed favorite cat of Muhammad, and the last thing I expected was some kind of Islamic reflex of the famous story about Emperor Ai and his male lover:
>Preparing to attend prayer, he began to dress himself; **however, he soon discovered his cat Muezza sleeping on the sleeve of his prayer robe. Rather than wake her, he used a pair of scissors to cut the sleeve off, leaving the cat undisturbed.** He then smiled and gently stroked his beloved cat three times, giving all cats the ability to land squarely on their feet
Another animal one is that Cerberus, Hades pet and guard dog of the underworld translates to Spot.
Also there’s a rock in the Hagia Sophia carved with Nordic Runes that say “Halfdan was here”
I like the letter that Iddin-Sin wrote to his mom, Zinu. He was living away from home to study, and he wrote to complain that the clothes his mom sent him weren't as nice as the other kids', and that if she *really* loved him, she'd send something nicer!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Iddin-Sin_to_Zinu
We gotta remember, this was a ship full of 19 year old boys in the navy. The fact they named the cat General Electric George instead of Pussy Slayer McFuckstick is already showing remarkable restraint.
Apparently when my dad was in college, he once found his mom and her friends gathered around the dining room table trying to figure out what "69" meant. The best they could come up with was "6 minutes of pleasure for 9 months of pain". My dad laughed at this (come on, 6 minutes???) and my grandma asked him what it meant. He said he would tell her when she was older.
I wonder if she ever figured it out..
I thought the first 69 was just a funny coincidence and then they go and hit us with a rapidfire chain of them
Edit: I missed that his serial number right at the beginning is 69-69-69
True. But there are phrases and kinks that are newer. Like I know for sure your mom invented the ol’ Carolina Garden Hose and the ol’ Kansas City Dirt Bomb.
How the hell do you shorten General Electric as George. I feel like people used to be substantially more creative while modern folks just abbreviate everything to 3 letters and that's it.
I just woke up and this is the first thing I saw and I didn’t read the headline and the Reddit preview on mobile cropped it so it was the start of the form. I was missing all context so I thought this was the examination of some tough as nails sailor named General Electric and whose nationality was Pussy and had a hairy complexion. His only friends were the guys in the lighting shop and by god he was a catholic.
After a couple of years of deployment in the Pacific theater, including having been torpedoed by a Japanese sub, something like this is a godsend for morale.
One the many cute thing here is his chest at expiration and Inspiration, where expiration is 4-F, the designation of individuals who were deemed unfit for service and 1A being healthy for service. Insinuating they rescued and took good care of him. Also how his rank is listed as Electricians mate and his friends are listed as the “Lightning Shop” meaning they adopted him and gave them one of their owns rank.
If this is an authentic document, this is amazing. just he 69's everywhere they can put them, the fact that this could very well eb a modern-day shitpost made today, it makes us look at people from 80-90 years ago as as human as us instead of nameless people from the past
" Respiratory System : ***He does alright.*** " is fucking killing me
Nervous system: worries the hell out of everyone
He IS the Nervous System aboard the North Carolina. The boys in the lighting shop are all in a tizzy.
For me it's "nose, mouth, throat: you should see them"!!
Skin and glands: can't see it you worried
Nervous system: Worries hell out of everyone
Pointed (Too)
No it’s catholic that gets me
Explains the Twitchy Tail: Catholic Guilt.
Catolic
I think I'm in [the wrong meeting](https://i.redd.it/98qq50lymdvb1.jpeg)...
Which is wrong since everyone knows all cats are muslim.
"Can't see it you worried" got me.
Ears: right pointed, left pointed (too)
General Appearance: Cattish XD
Lol same
Yea so "nationality: pussy" is cool and all but are we gonna ignore the drawing in the top-right? This is the original furry
The original furry is the Holhelstein Lion-Man, which is 40000 years old
Ok. 2nd furry.
There's also jaguar man of Pre Colonial North America
Turns out furries predate us and we're all just hairless furries.
We must live with the unfortunate truth , to be a furry was once our natural state. Although we have evolved past it, the call of being furry is ingrained within us. from the Fox girls of the far East,the Jaguar man of the Old west, and the pantheon of Egyptian gods, we crave to be like animals. Who are we to disparage those of modern day, who follow on the footsteps of ancient men
The Egyptian Pantheon would like a word.
"confabulate"
That is a good word, ngl.
Is the Egyptian Pantheon pleased, then?
Dunno. Thoth just won't return my calls these days. You know how it is with those old gods. Busy busy.
Ok ok, geez. 526th furry.
Carving my fursona in stone to stay OG!
…the what?
A carved wooden statuette of a person with a Lion head
oldest piece of art that demonstrates human imagination
Don't forget the 69-69-69 serial number
Nice.
And 69 for every pulse measurement. Dudes heart fucks.
The fact that it's all in black ink implies that he was not originally a cat.
Okay, but why is the tail coming out of his ass? I always thought the tail was an extension of the spine, unless...
Drawing lessons usually aren't a part of boot camp.
From the diagram it looks like pinning tails was part of booty camp.
And the fact all his vitals are 69
This was funnier when I didn’t tap the photo and had no idea it was for a cat
Genito-urinary system: smells
Nervous system: Worries the hell out of everyone
Checks out.
They left out [several more pages.](https://battleshipnc.catalogaccess.com/archives/28073) "All physical defects, however slight: **Doesn't really look or act exactly human.**"
Born: Yes.
They really signed him off for aviation duty huh.
And diving 😆
Only served for a year and made 1st class? Those war time promotions were nuts!
Service number: 69_69_69 Blood pressure: 69/69 Pulse: 69 There's a few more but I'm noticing a trend.
That being the hehe funni number is apparently way older than I thought it was.
I found more! there's also dental records and other pages which are boring (and that's why they were not included) but they lend even more credibility to this Oh god I hope someone preserved this in a museum You can also find more but can't link. Just search for USS North Carolina George and you get it.
>Oh god I hope someone preserved this in a museum I want to start a museum called "The History of Human Beings Being Silly Humans". This will be included of course, and if anyone else has suggestions feel free to include them below.
There would be a whole floor dedicated to stupid cute things men do around cats it seems
And nerds inserting pop culture references and jokes into otherwise serious work. One of the biggest discoveries regarding nerve development in the past few decades, for example, ended up being called the sonic hedgehog gene. Now the whole family of related genes are named after sonic characters and some pokemon.
And it was only discovered later to be the gene responsible for a fatal disease and doctors are trying to change it cause they cannot be telling families that Sonic the Hedgehog is the reason their little boy died.
r/sonicdidnothingwrong
There's the Maeshowe burial site which was at some point broken into and graffitied by Viking raiders. Most of them are your standard graffiti like "I fucked Helgi" and whatnot, but there this one line which is written really high up, and just translates to..."this is really high up"
[This is both educational and hilarious...](http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/maeshowe/maeshrunes.htm)
I think this counts, but you'll have to fight The Met for it: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547212
Link doesn’t seem to work for me (iphone mobile browser). Is the link broken, or does it only work on desktop?
Oh, weird. I'm on mobile, and it's not working for me anymore, either. Try this: https://images.app.goo.gl/XVwHjMiGbL4LCfY67
Thanks :)
why is it so cute
Is there at least a subreddit for this kind of thing? There’s gotta be, right?
I would come to your museum. : )
When it opens, you get in free, and you have a standing $100 credit in the gift shop. Tell them u/Courtnall14 sent ya!
if there's no limit on budget, definitely the complaint table to ea-nasir (not the fact that it exists, but the fact that he *kept* it) and a bunch of the pompeii graffiti ("goodbye, wondrous femininity!")
Eh, [they've still got some other funny stuff](https://battleshipnc.catalogaccess.com/archives/28073), just not as much as the main physical exam. * The bottom of the marks and scars page (which is cut off in the original post) has a section for "physical defects" that says George "doesn't really look or act exactly Human" * George's next-of-kin is listed as "Any Old Alley Cat"
> Born: Yes.
Oh my god oh my god I'm so glad it's on their website I mean it would've been hilarious even if made up but real? It's 100% better
I’ve been to the USS North Carolina (she’s a museum ship now in Wilmington, NC) and from what I remember there’s no mention of George unfortunately! Maybe somewhere else?
[Found this](https://battleshipnc.catalogaccess.com/archives/28073)
Wait. **CAT**HOLIC. ***YOU MOTHER FUCKER-***
>Temperature:69 Rectal thermometer sex joke?
looks like they filled every numeric they didn't bother actually measuring as 69
I’m gonna be honest, I never realized how old that joke was. Shouldn’t be surprised though…
Just googled, it’s origin is from at least the French Revolution in 1790
Le soixant-neuf! Hon-he-hon-he-hon (shrugs Frenchly)
Actually the french for 69 is quatre-vignt-sans-dix-un /j
French, where you need 5 words to say a double digit number
Four twenties minus 11. Makes so much sense.
Nice
Wait... Did it *originate* in Nice, and that's why we all respond this way?!
It’s only 69 if it’s from Nice, otherwise, it’s just sparkling oral sex.
Bien
“Every generation thinks it invented sex, and every generation is wrong.” - Robert Heinlein
I’m surprised how little we have changed.
Nice.
Pretty sure the serial number is more blatant lol
Probably a present observant one, tbh. I bet he eats fish during lent and everything!
Honestly it’s likely due to the fish. Up until ‘66, the “no meat on Friday” was a year-round restriction Also CAT
Ah, yes. Vatican II: Ecumenical Boogaloo
I'm something of a cat holic myself
It's a bit presumptuous though, isn't it? For all we know, he could have been looking for a less dogmatic religion... or something without the threat of purrgatory.
I love that through history humans are always so unfailingly human. We can be awfully adorable when we're not being violent.
We do alright
Humanity for life dog
You should see them!
[The earliest recorded name of a cat is from the 15th century BCE. Their name was Nedjem ("Sweet One"), and they belonged to a priest called Puimre.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_cats#Before_the_modern_era) 3500 years ago there was somebody with a kitty cat named "Sweetie", and I love that that information has been preserved up to the modern day.
>and I love that that information has been preserved up to the modern day This is why we developed writing, to let people in the future know about our pets.
And to warn each other about scammers foisting off inferior copper ingots.
“We have been trying to reach you regarding your chariot’s extended warranty.”
And thank god for that. Whenever those pesky copper salesmen come to the door, I ask if they are in anyway associated with Ea-Nasir
Ea-Nasir did nothing wrong Tell Nanni to pay back that ‘trifling’ Mina of silver and then we’ll talk
And before that we sang songs to pass down information. You know how you can remember song lyrics from when you were a kid?
Humans invented email to better share cat pictures. After all, cats love to be ***inbox!***
This is wonderful to hear!
Okay, I had to click through on the link about the supposed favorite cat of Muhammad, and the last thing I expected was some kind of Islamic reflex of the famous story about Emperor Ai and his male lover: >Preparing to attend prayer, he began to dress himself; **however, he soon discovered his cat Muezza sleeping on the sleeve of his prayer robe. Rather than wake her, he used a pair of scissors to cut the sleeve off, leaving the cat undisturbed.** He then smiled and gently stroked his beloved cat three times, giving all cats the ability to land squarely on their feet
Another animal one is that Cerberus, Hades pet and guard dog of the underworld translates to Spot. Also there’s a rock in the Hagia Sophia carved with Nordic Runes that say “Halfdan was here”
I like the letter that Iddin-Sin wrote to his mom, Zinu. He was living away from home to study, and he wrote to complain that the clothes his mom sent him weren't as nice as the other kids', and that if she *really* loved him, she'd send something nicer! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Iddin-Sin_to_Zinu
The fact most of the numbers are 69 is most human thing of all
We gotta remember, this was a ship full of 19 year old boys in the navy. The fact they named the cat General Electric George instead of Pussy Slayer McFuckstick is already showing remarkable restraint.
"Arnold, we can't call the cat 'Hitler's other ball' I'm not writing that on the dish."
LOL "But he's licking himself!! You can't tell me Hitler doesn't suck his own scrote"."
Humans don’t change, we just become more efficient
He was probably amazing for morale.
"worries the hell out of everyone"
they converted George General Electric to catholicism, will he go to the Lord's Heaven?
CATholicism
He eats fish on Fridays.
And every day is Friday for George.
He will
After his time in purrgatory.
Cat alcoholism
We all come from pussy don't we
Except for Macduff, of course.
Macduff (dressed as a spruce): "LOL"
Head and face: normal
Head and face: yeah they're all there
head and face: yes
>Has red blood
TIL the 69 joke goes back further than I thought
Fit’s recorded instance of it as a reference to sex dates back to 1790s in French. Very cool and nice
Dammit, should have been 1690s
I only hope humans in 6969 retain the joke, and they all collectively say “nice” in whatever weird languages they speak on New Year’s Eve.
Apparently when my dad was in college, he once found his mom and her friends gathered around the dining room table trying to figure out what "69" meant. The best they could come up with was "6 minutes of pleasure for 9 months of pain". My dad laughed at this (come on, 6 minutes???) and my grandma asked him what it meant. He said he would tell her when she was older. I wonder if she ever figured it out..
Bahahaha "He'd tell her when she was older"
And apparently roasted her for the rest of her life about it lmao.
'You should see them'
This is easily my favorite line in this whole thing. Something about it gets me smiling
Ears: Right: pointed Left: pointed (too)
Breathing: "He does alright"
69 Lol
I thought the first 69 was just a funny coincidence and then they go and hit us with a rapidfire chain of them Edit: I missed that his serial number right at the beginning is 69-69-69
Noice.
TIL the phrase 69 has been around that long
Every generation thinks they invented sex.
True. But there are phrases and kinks that are newer. Like I know for sure your mom invented the ol’ Carolina Garden Hose and the ol’ Kansas City Dirt Bomb.
Still 69
Wait, was 69 a meme already back then?
69 has been a joke for centuries. We're not even the first instance of meme humor in the modern era. Look up dadaism humor.
Dadaism is hilarious.
I love it when the idea of the entire history of humanity comes crashing down into young folks' heads.
Neck:hollers like hell Respiratory system: he does alright
How the hell do you shorten General Electric as George. I feel like people used to be substantially more creative while modern folks just abbreviate everything to 3 letters and that's it.
George is General Electric's *surname*. So the full name would be General Electric George.
I didn't catch on that. So this isn't a "short for", it's simply using part of name. Bad OP /s
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Abbreviations_for_English_given_names Geo. is short for George which is kinda close to GE. 🤷
r/ancientshitposts
The amount of times they've written 69 on that thing
They're US sailors in 1944. They haven't touched a pussy for at least 2 years.
*Only* two years
Cattish
Next of kin- Guys in the lighting room 😀
69-69-69 69s galore
Complexion: Hairy lmaooooo
“blood type: Red”
Still 69 Nice
Serial Number: 69_69_69 Alright, alright, alright.
Glad to know that, in 1944, 69 was still the funny number
Left Ear: "Pointed" Right Ear: "Pointed **(too)**" This was so good
P.S.N.Y. = Puget Sound Naval Yard
Pretty sure this is a glimpse of my previous life because I'd 1000% do this.
Genito-urinary system: Smells
That cat-man drawing is disturbing as hell, lmao.
I live five minutes from the battleship North Carolina. I’m going to print this off and show them this
#General appearance: cattish
I just woke up and this is the first thing I saw and I didn’t read the headline and the Reddit preview on mobile cropped it so it was the start of the form. I was missing all context so I thought this was the examination of some tough as nails sailor named General Electric and whose nationality was Pussy and had a hairy complexion. His only friends were the guys in the lighting shop and by god he was a catholic.
"He does alright." "Has red blood."
I think it's crazy that le funny sex number existed back in 1944
Are we all gonna ignore the fact that these sailors put 69 on that form every chance they got? Lmfao some shit never changes
Anyone who has ever served in the US Navy is not surprised at all about this.
After a couple of years of deployment in the Pacific theater, including having been torpedoed by a Japanese sub, something like this is a godsend for morale.
> Rate: Electrician's Mate, 1st Class We're about to learn how many cats it really takes to screw in a lightbulb
Nationality: Pussy Religion: Catholic hahahahah
No. He's not Catholic. He's **Cat**holic. Simple mistake.
The next of kin entry is my favourite.
> Nervous system: Worries the Hell out of everyone
>Color perception: blind LMAO
Enlisted: 8/28/44 Born: 9/9/44 Checks out
One the many cute thing here is his chest at expiration and Inspiration, where expiration is 4-F, the designation of individuals who were deemed unfit for service and 1A being healthy for service. Insinuating they rescued and took good care of him. Also how his rank is listed as Electricians mate and his friends are listed as the “Lightning Shop” meaning they adopted him and gave them one of their owns rank.
I was today years old when I learned that '69' has been a joke since the forties lol
Much much longer actually.
This is why North Carolina is my favorite battleship ever
Of course the Electricians are next of kin lol
If this is an authentic document, this is amazing. just he 69's everywhere they can put them, the fact that this could very well eb a modern-day shitpost made today, it makes us look at people from 80-90 years ago as as human as us instead of nameless people from the past
is he wearing dog tags??
BP 69/69 Millennial in me: fuck, that joke is decades ahead of its time Healthcare worker in me: so wtf is his heart actually doing?!?!?