Hands Aloft to Squirrel!

[emo_snal]

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[kawanee]

I found this terribly amusing (which I needed). Where I work, I can't think of any intentional or unintentional mispronunciations of words that we use...I imagine it's rather different at a call center than it is on a boat, ha ha.

[emo_snal]

Haha yeah I suppose at a call center they'd want you to be on top of your correct pronunciation

[kawanee]

Yeah just a little bit, ha ha.

[emo_snal]

Though I think I'd find it pretty hard to resist any particularly funny ones ;)

[lowermeadow]

Beautiful! Love the pics and the talk about the work onboard Thanks for sharing!

[emo_snal]

thanks (:

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[emo_snal]

** I originally tried to explain when "board sheet the headsels" would be used, but it turned into a lengthy tangent on sailing mechanics. If you're interested, here's what it said:

Now let's say our devilish opponents such as i_id on the brig Lady Washington are pulling some saucy manoeuvre and our "Captain Redbeard" decides our response needs to be to "wear ship," wherein instead of turning the bow of the vessel through the eye of the wind we turn away from the eye of the wind and turn all the way around bringing the stern of the ship through the eye of the wind. Instead of turning 60 degrees to the new position it's turning 300 degrees to reach that position, if you follow.
   As we're turning the bow away from the wind we want to increase the wind pressure against the sails to push the bow around as fast as possible, so the crewmembers up front "board sheet" the headsels, which consists of pulling the lines (sheets) to stretch out the headsels as much as possible.

[blackmavriq]

What's even funnier about "hands to brain maces" is another running item amongst crew about the sailor's deathly fear of zombies and also holding "zombie drills" upon occasion. And, of course, those two things are also completely unrelated. In the words of one S. Baker: "Everyone, sharpen your drivers' licenses if you have to!"

[emo_snal]

And the fire ax on the lady that has "aim for the brains" on it!

Zombie Killa Song

[emo_snal]

Goddammit sorry about the number of reposts/edits on this I'm having a devil of a time making this work. Hopefully this link works. I tried to embed it and for some reason it didn't:

Zombie Killa song

[morlith]

This was a very amusing post. Thanks for sharing!

I've mispronounced things on purpose (especially when using foreign languages) for fun, but unfortunately I can't come up with anything like that consistently for work. However, it does sound like something to set as a goal in the future. ;)

[emo_snal]

It's important to have goals! :D Report back if you come up with anything noteworthy!