Stovey's on sea trials

“My money says they make him walk the plank...”

“How else can he get off the ship? LOL.”

“Heard as Stovey left home, "... Buuuuuuuut... I don't wanna be a pirate!!"”

“Let's hope not!
He might get my name in the ornament exchange and I won't get a present! :(
LOL...”

“Aar, Twig, ya might get seaworthy jewels!”

“oooolala!
;)”

“twig is getting family jewels?!”

“I'd rather envision him kissing King Neptune's fat hairy navel in a Shellback ceremony. Arrrr Matey!”

“That would work, for sure, Snakey, but what is the "Shellback" ceremony?”

“What are sea trials?”

“I doubt he will be crossing the equater anyways - lizs the shellback ceremony is an initiation rite for converting pollywogs to shellbacks upon the pollywogs first crossing of the equater on an ocean going ship.”

“Nigal, sea trials are where Captain Jack Sparrow sees if you are seaworthy by walking the plank, DOH! I mean, ARRRR, matey!
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“Lizs - More than you asked, but this list may be of some interest. Ships other than Naval vessels hold some of the ceremonies, too.
List of Unofficial US Navy Certificates”

“Nigal, he gets to take Navy ships under contruction out for a test drive and figure out what all doesn't work.”

“he wants to be a bloody pirate”

“Yeah, what Scorchy said! Don't be takin' away our pirate fun! I'm tryin' to picture Stovey Sparrow right now..........”

“I see him dressed up like Peter Pan.”

“goody, lets just keep mentioning Johnny Depp movies here.

Yum, yum....”

“I see Snake Eyes is being sooo bad tonight!!!!!!”

“actually I can just picture a Tinker Bell costume on him



mwahahahahahahahahahahahaha”

“I thought of that too, but I can't quite picture him as aerodynamic.”

“I'm just back in the office, ya basstages!!!
;-)
Was up testing systems in the Gulf of Mexico all night except for the two hours of sleep I got from 2-4am this morning.

http://maritimenewmedia.com/lsv8/lsv8Launchn90-3.htm

This is the little boat I was 'test driving'.”

“Didja get convicted?”

“Got off with a warning. ;-)”

“Is it hard to quit saying "AAAAAAAAR" when you're back in the office? How do you hid the ruffled shirt, Stovey Sparrow?? AND -- just because Jerry Seinfeld said, "But I don't wanna be a pirate!" doesn't mean you can't just go ahead and and wear your ruffled shirt. ;-)”

“SWEET!
Cool video. I like how you guys can launch and un-launch a ship.”

“We generally try to avoid putting then back on land after launching. ;-)
I liked that little video too.

True Story - One of the first ship's of this class was launched up the river at another shipyard (now out of biz). They didn't put enough drag chains on it and it kept going across the river and knocked down several pine trees on the other side.

lizs - bite me! ;-)
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“OK who has a picture of StoveStomper's hairy legs to go on the hairy legs thread?”

“that is way cool, you get to drive them big boats around!! what a great job!! mine is beginning to get alittle boring.”

“They still let you drive after you knocked several pine trees down?”

“ARRR, he's a pirate now, matey. Stovey Sparrow does what he likes.

Did they give you a parrot for your shoulder? Do you still have your hand or did they chop it off and give ya a hook???”

“wonder what he could use his hook for while backpacking?


roasting marshmellows”

“extracting boogers.”

“...wiped with the wrong "hand"...har har har.....”

“tent stake, guess he would have to take it off.”

“Ah, but ya know how tough it is trying to stick BENT tent stakes in the ground. Me thinks that hook ain't gonna work for a tent stake. But... maybe to hang a candle lantern???!? YEAH!

I'm sure he'll be a thoroughly modern pirate with a TITANIUM HOOK!!! :-)
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