The crew has discovered my blog! I guess I better stop posting mean things about them! I'll continue posting from my 'rather disturbing view' however. haha~ Anyway it turns out that Joe Ferris, the Second Mate, keeps a blog. He's a real life adventurer, and he's full of great stories. It's a funny blog, and you can also read all the Chief Scientist's weekly reports there. Definitely worth checking out:
The Nuclear Powered Whaling Vessel Blog
Some other interesting links from Joe:
Shellback Ceremony
Red Nose Ceremony
Potty Mouth Sailor Adventure #1
Potty Mouth Sailor Adventure #2
A wog is someone who has not yet made an equator crossing, and they have to do a few things to become a shellback...
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Here is a more detailed explanation of Pollywog status and of the Shellback Ceremony to go with that link:
Shellbacks are worthy sailors who have crossed the Equator and have survived the Shellback ceremony.
Pollywogs are all worthless parasites that have not yet crossed the Equator, and those who have crossed but have yet to go through the ceremony. When you cross the Equator as a Pollywog you are committing a grave offence against his highness, King Poseidon, and must stand before King Poseidon’s royal court to stand charges and be judged to see if you are worthy for Shellback status. Of course you will be found guilty of the charges, sentenced to execution, visit the barber for the last haircut (that’s me, “Osama” the ship’s only fundamentalist beautician), sit on the electric chair, and be resurrected from death by swimming the rotten garbage filled “whale’s asshole”. All this fun begins at sunrise with lots of “light hazing” and a full survey of the ship to find out how many dead squid lengths, Spam lengths, and hotdog lengths from bow to stern. The Pollywogs provide after lunch entertainment – today’s show being a fictitious portrayal of a Pollywog uprising and subsequent crushing by the Shellbacks. In a blatant move to kiss my ass in the futile hope for gentle treatment, the Wogs cited the teachings of the 2nd Mate (myself) as the intellectual origins of their silly revolution, it didn’t work, Osama the Barber treats all who sit at his beauticians chair with utter contempt!
And there you have it folks! i am still a pollywog :(
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