Was Jim Flynn a better fireman than Tom Sharkey was a sailor?

I believe Flynn was a railroad fireman, which means his job was keeping fires burning rather than putting them out. I'll admit I have no idea if he was any good at it.

 

I dont understand. Flynn was a railroad fireman, not a firefighter.

 

Perhaps Flynn was inadvertently “good” at putting out fires - not actually good for a would be fire stoker and midnight toker - which is why the railroad likely had to fire him…”Ya Fiud!!”

In classic Derek Zoolander voice and style, let me answer your question with a question: “Did Flynn care enough to have a big Choo Choo Train tattooed on his chest?”

“Hmmm, well?” <lips duly pursed, part thereof the Blue Steel “Look”>

A model (no comma) idtiot? I think not.

This has opened opened up a whole new genre for discussion.

Next weeks instalment: Was Jim Corbett a better bank clerk than John L was a strong boy?

For mine, John L hands down. He lifted a detailed tram back onto its tracks after all.

As a w*nker, err..I mean banker, Corbett just lifted and pushed pens. Whoop De Doo!

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Well Flynn certainly quenched out Dempsey

 

I'm on my ****in' lunch break

 

These guys knew how to keep the fire going on a train, even when they ran out of purpose cut lumber or coal. Very resourceful.

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Fireman Jim Flynn invented the peekaboo style. This needs to be known

 

Jack Sharkey was the Boston Gob... a gob being a sailor to my understanding. Was he a better seaman than his namesake?

 

I never put much faith in boxing nicknames after realizing that the Ole Mongoose lost twice to the Cincinnati Cobra.

 

It also meant sailor back in the early 1900's.

 

Jack Sharkey didn’t have any tatts either. How could he call himself a Navy Man?

Though, at best, he might’ve had an “uppercut here” note attached to his chin for the Carnera rematch to ensure no glitches in the choreography.

Sean Connery was in the Navy. He hated it. Discharged with an ulcer (duodenal).

But even Sean got some tatts, “Mum, “Dad”’on one forearm and “Scotland Forever” on the other, or something like that.

Sean boxed a bit also and was considered quite handy. He also punched out Lana Turner’s gangster boyfriend and had to hide out for a time.

Sean also used to work for a coffin maker, so if he had boxed pro, by association, he might’ve been called “The Undertaker” - or “The Embalmer”, close enough for hand grenades.

My Dad was in the Navy but swore off tattoos. He had a mate who was similarly disposed - but one night, while on shore leave, his mate got blind drunk.

He woke up the next morning to find a tattoo on his persons that he didn’t remember getting the night before and literally bawled his eyes out.

Very similar to the movie The Hangover but I don’t believe it was as drastic as a Mike Tyson Face Tattoo in this instance…but still.. No doubt, in his inebriation, he likely succumbed to peer group pressure.

There was another boxer who was a railway fireman by trade, just can’t recall who it was - Marvin Hart maybe?

Fred Fulton was a plasterer - perhaps not up there with the heady status of being a “Fireman” but a useful trade nonetheless.

Of course Bob Fitz was a Smithy and even after his boxing career overran that trade, Bob used to make special commemorative horse shoes for his friends - imagine if someone still has one of those to this day?

What price might it fetch from Rick and his fellow Pawn Stars? Probably SFA.

I’d buy the horse shoe, if signed and accompanied by a certificate of authentication - though I doubt very much that those boxes would be ticked.