Eugene...is that you Man?

“scarin' the CRAP outa the locals tho!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336750,00.html”

“dang..that's TWICE today I been SCOOPED!


better'n bein' POOPED I guess....”

“pooped --- to be struck by a wave breaking over the stern of a boat, i.e. to be overtaken by a following sea with untoward results.... whacked on your poop deck.”

“Yep..Had that done..an it AIN'T no fun!”

“Some of these are pretty bad ----

http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/GenBosunSlang.html”

“Wow, I didn't realize so many of the phrases I use were nautical in origin.”

“I have a copy of The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea from about 1975 and it's Seriously loaded with these things.

Like..... "sucking the monkey" referred to an activity that ensued when coconuts brought aboard ship during resupply had the 'milk' replaced with rum by the natives..... and was the cause of much unexplained drunkenness for many years (or so they said).

Well, that one wasn't as readily transferable to life ashore, but you get the drift....”