:rotfl: We call crossing the equator "Golden Shellback. What do you guys call it? My arse still hurts from my "initiation"

We simply call it "crossing the line".....but you remain alert because often the initiation ceremony is a stripping down to the naked skin and a good rub down with old lubrication oil :o

We often were in our skivies which seemed a bit weird to me... They would always get the fattest Chief and put grease on his fat belly then put a cherry or a pepper in in the belly button and the lucky sailors got to fetch the damn thing with our teeth and then eat it. If I were the CO, then on our next liberty port, I would simply buy all the girls and booze they could stomach. I am a conservative you know!:D

Pleased to hear it :lol:

Frame, has it been that long?

Golden Shellback is when you cross the equator at the international dateline.

For the rest of us commoners, it's just Shellback, Member of the Briny Realm of Neptunus Rex. (Hey, that's me!)

I forgot the difference between the two actually. On the later (shellback) our CO decided to have a swim call. The waters were like glass... All the new shellbacks had to go for a dip and one IC tech was afraid that he would get exposure to radiation by being in the water. What a puss, anyway he was the last one up Jacobs ladder for sure, then we started to yell "Shark, shark..." which pissed of the OD because we did have an armed shark watch employed. :D