Destination Tokyo (1943)

Alan Hale: 'Cookie' Wainwright

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• 'Cookie' Wainwright : [passing out Christmas presents, reading the labels]  'For Pills, the Pharmacist's Mate, a mournful knell; he dropped his vitamins down the periscope well!'

  [all hands laugh] 

  'Cookie' Wainwright : 'The new kid forward is wiser but sadder... since he stepped on the skipper coming down the ladder!'

  Tommy Adams : Hey, I apologized!

  [more laughter] 

  'Cookie' Wainwright : 'On Wolf's grave a wreath is laid, since he tangled his line with that chambermaid!'

  [more laughter as Wolf opens his present] 

  Wolf : [pulling out a skimpy nightie]  Aww, you shoulda had it filled!

  'Cookie' Wainwright : 'All hands get ready to upchuck this dinner; with Cookie in the galley, we're gonna get thinner.'

  [pauses amid the laughter, acting offended] 

  'Cookie' Wainwright : Now listen! If that ain't a new high for gratitude... Who practically mothers all the guys on this ship? I do. Who bends over a hot stove all day long for you guys? I do. Who's gonna get all the glory when you sink a Jap ship? You, that's who! Who's gonna get all the medals out of this war? You guys! And what am I gonna get? Nothin' but varicose veins, and dishwatered hands! Yeah!

• 'Cookie' Wainwright : [During a particularly fierce depth-charging of the 'Copperfin']  Would any of you fellas be interested in a 1938 motor scooter?