WPBFD History

APPENDIX C The following "fire house" sayings were collected by Donald P. Widing for his paper entitled Your Culture Is Showing, written in 1991. They were submitted by frrefighters on the West Palm Beach Fire Department. Some have been added. Others have been slightly altered.

Not another questionnaire! When I came on the department ... Just hit the high spots

Firefighters can frig-up a steel ball It takes ten atta boys to make-up for one aw'

Toxic sock syndrome Kill another tree

shit

Beep it out

Never let the truth stand in the way of a good

Woman at the water, man at the fire

story

It's big and it's red

Training Prevention Training Facsimile Emerson anchor

There's more than one way to the Monterey

Can't get there from here

Code 1 for now Barn burner Good ripper

Central rats First No Third trick

200 p.s.i. never hurt anybody Find a newboy for the silver suit I didn't know it was a doghouse

Three different departments

Fightin' First

Send you to the 3rd Platoon

Everything went good until the chief arrived Fourth platooner Allnighter Clean the oil room This building is ours Widing wrap Ramada on the Ground When in peril, when in doubt, run in circles, Spineless jellyfish shit and shout this 100 years of tradition, unimpeded by progress Hey big boy Savin' lives and fightin' fires Hey good looking Newboy Mums the word Pumper scum Saved another foundation

Computers are a passing fad

I don't understand everything I know about

Can I borrow your knee pads

Medic scum Stuffed olive

How do it know? Let's test the system

It's not brain surgery

Chow down for the eating crew What the hell is quiche? G.F.S. (Good F…ing Shit)

Hocker

Hard but fair

1.9

My favorite Bean-off

Make a weak dog break his chain Make a hungry dog jump off a meat truck

Just a little freeper

Old flop ears The Stick Real lieutenant Generic lieutenant

Half life

Fess-up, deadbeats

I need to get a job with some time off Where else can you have this much fun and get

Dyal-a-gram paid for it Always tell the truth, even if you have to lie I knew I was going to like this job when they Are his lips moving? issued me a pillow County saved another pad Central F…ing Station Punished our faces