- From a Submariner's Perspective. 10/07/10 ...wherein our salty scribe, try though he might, was unable to use the word "hirsute" in today's post. He's reportedly gone into hiding over the sadness of this development as, given the circumstances presented in Letter #4, he assumed its use would be a given. He's reportedly lost a fairly large sum of money over this, too! That said, come on and see what words he did use!