The Association ("Turtle Club") is "an honorable drinking fraternity composed of ladies and gentlemen of the highest morals and good character, who are never vulgar" and who have successfully answered four from a list of about twenty-five qualifying questions. Each question suggests a vulgar, lewd, or salacious answer, but the actual correct answer is rather innocuous. Once inducted, a member must reply to the question, "Are you a turtle?" with the answer, "You bet your sweet ass I am." If the member is unable or unwilling (perhaps because of the restriction on vulgarity) to provide the correct answer, he or she owes to each other turtle present a drink of the recipient's choice.

The origin of this group supposedly goes back to World War II fighter pilots as a way to amuse themselves while relaxing with a cool drink between missions. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with aerial warfare. ...

Popular qualifying questions

1. What does a woman do sitting down, that a dog does on three legs, and a man does standing up?
2. What is long, hard, and tubular and filled with "sea-men?"
3. What is a word heard almost every day that rhymes with "duck" and begins with "F?"
4. What does a cow have four of, that a woman only has two of?
5. What is rounded and hard and sticks so far out of a man's pajamas you can hang your hat on it?
6. What does a dog do that a man steps into?
7. What goes in hard and dry and comes out flaccid and moist?
8. What is a four letter word, ending with "k," that means intercourse?

The solutions are, A woman is a female human. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog is a mammal in the order Carnivora. ... A man is a male human. ... // Subfamilies Dendrocygninae Oxyurinae Anatinae Merginae Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. ... COW is an acronym for a number of things: Can of worms The COW programming language, an esoteric programming language. ... Look up Pajamas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

1. Shake hands.
2. A submarine.
3. Firetruck.
4. Legs.
5. His head.
6. Pants.
7. Chewing Gum.
8. Talk.

Historical references

• During the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission (part of the United States space program), astronaut Wally Schirra was asked by a ground controller whether he was a turtle. Not wanting to use vulgar language while his communications were being broadcast worldwide, he temporarily stopped transmitting while he gave the required response (which was captured by the in-flight recorder).[1]

// Wally Schirra (flew on Mercury 8, Gemini 6A, & Apollo 7) Gordon Cooper Mass:1370 kg Perigee: 153 km Apogee: 285 km Inclination: 32. ... Human spaceflight is space exploration with a human crew, and possibly passengers (in contrast to unmanned space missions, which are remotely-controlled or robotic space probes). ... Walter M. “Wally” Schirra Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. ... The term vulgar originally meant of the common people, from the Latin vulgus. ... In aircraft, the flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) are used to record aircraft and pilot behavior in order to analyze accidents, and are usually called black boxes by the news media. ...

External links

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