It brought back a work-related memory for me when I was on Base at the Supply Department. I had a photo of Brooks Robinson hanging up in my cubicle when Larry Crum started working there. He noticed my Brooks photo and asked if we could hang up whatever we wanted. I told him that no one had ever said anything about it so I guessed that it was ok. Larry then proceeded to hang up in his cube the famous Farrah-Fawcett-red-swim-suit-nipple poster. (Funny isn’t it, how one little nipple could have created such a stir?)
Nothing was said by any of our supervisors and things went along business as usual until I put up the Ali Liston poster shown above. As soon as our not-so-racially-blind supervisor spied my latest adornment, a memo was issued within the hour stating that all pictures and posters not work-related had to come down. Larry very sarcastically hit me with a “Thanks J., if you hadn’t put Ali up, I’d still have Farrah on my wall.”