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Show "Tell It to the Marines" Postmaster Ray K. Bohne has received an) interesting narrative regarding the origin of the phrase "Tell It to the Marines," from Major Ma-jor T. Talmadge Taylor, of th-e Marine Corps recruiting station, Room 46.. Federal Building, San Frxncisco. Major Taylor states that according accord-ing to Peppy's diary during the reign of Charles 1!. of England, a certain sea captaiii, newly returned from ihe western ocean, told the kiiv? about flying fish, a thing never heard of iu old England. The .-.ing end the cjurt were vastly amused. But, the naval fellow per-sisrirt per-sisrirt the m:i ry monarch beckoned beck-oned to a lea -i, diy colonel of the sea regiment, or.c. said: "C Uunel, this tarry-breeks here makes sport of us stay-at-homes. He tells us of a miraculous fish that forsakes its elements and flies like a bird over the water!" "Sire," replied the colonel of the marines, "he tells a true thing. I myself have often seen these fish in your majesty's maj-esty's seas around Barbados." "Weli decided Charles, "such evidence cannot be disuted. Hereafter, whn we hear a strange thing, we will tell it to the Marines, fcr the Marines Ma-rines go everywhere and see eveiy-thint. eveiy-thint. and if they say it isso, v.o will believe it." So we see that a loyal quip has a royal origin and it st.uk. |