Comments on: Prop Wash

By: Jessica Harrison

Jessica Harrison — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:38:56 +0000

Hey this is gonna be great if you keep it going. Hey tell everybody I say what up an dyou stay safe.
God Bless you!

By: Jen in IN

Jen in IN — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:44:27 +0000

Too funny.. Love this.

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:52:09 +0000

That was great! What a fun concept. Keep ‘em comin!

By: Jessica Harrison

Jessica Harrison — Fri, 11 May 2007 16:29:27 +0000

You know what Keith..I think that you are an awesome guy…if you leave..I will not watch the show again…jus tjoking..but seriously…much love to you for doing the deadliest jobin the world!!

By: labsalot

labsalot — Wed, 16 May 2007 03:30:32 +0000

Ha, that one is going to be hard to out-do. Somehow I think you will manage it though. Good one!

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:43:23 +0000

Love that sense of humor Capt. Phil has. Good Ol’ Oregon boy - just wants to do a good job darn it! Ha-Ha. As a blonde I know how it feels to be the one whose chain is getting pulled. Sounds like Brian has a good sense of humor too. Good luck and stay safe.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:10:43 +0000

LOLOLOL I had my 18y/o daughter come read this. IN her very blonde sense of humor. She looked at me and said ” I don’t get it.” After I stopped laughing I had to explain in detail her why it would not wash the prop.

By: james_of_the_arctic

james_of_the_arctic — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:11:19 +0000

Next time, send him below for the keys to the oar locks, or send him to the store for the relative bearing grease.

By: Sirena

Sirena — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:10:13 +0000

LOL That reminds me of what they do to Airmen when they get to there first duty station.

By: Noah McGahee

Noah McGahee — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:24:42 +0000

hey this is for your the capt. and listen up ok im 10 ys. old and YOUR SHIP ROCKS !! sinserly:Noah McGahee

By: zain

zain — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:59:01 +0000

Outstanding. I was a prawn fisherman fishing in the north sea fishing from a stern trawler and we done something similar to our greenhorn. This lad was eager as anything and we were preparing the boat for a 5 day trip when the skpper sent him to the chandlery store for a longstand. Sure enough the young lad whizzed off and when he arrived at the store, he asked one of the store attendants for a longstand. The attendant had a puzzled look on his face, then said to the lad “Im not sure if we have any left, ill get one of the lads to check the wharehouse to see if we have any. In the mean time, just go and wait across the road to the warehouse and stand there and wait for the lad” The greenhorn raced across the road to the warehouse and after 20 mins had passed, the guy came out and said to him “has the lad seen to you yet?” and the greenhorn said “no im still waiting for him”. “Oh well you can stand a little longer for him then” mentioned the storeman. The greenhorn realised 30 mins in total. longest record yet.

By: william

william — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:46:05 +0000

my (farm boy) uncle from north carolina was on coast guard cutter in bering sea years ago. He said he manned night watch one christmas eve and thought ,man, what am I doing here thousands of miles from home!

By: Karla Bavousett

Karla Bavousett — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:30:10 +0000

ROFL!!! My question for the rest of the story did he take the bucket back to the store? What kind of ribbing did he get at that point too? Poor kid–being gullable is a curse!

By: Denise

Denise — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:04:21 +0000

Very very funny! I would love to see some of these pranks on the show! Stay safe!

By: Lefty

Lefty — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:24:02 +0000

Hilarious….

In the New York City Fire Department the probies (what they call their greenhorns are sometimes asked to get the “left-handed” spanner wrench… (a tool for opening hydrants)

Great show… I’m always watching…

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:11:21 +0000

I work on fighter aircraft in the Air Force and we pull the same prank on the FNG’s (Freakin’ New Guys) when they come out to the flight line for the first time. Of course when they go into the tool area to get some they also just happen to be “fresh out” and they will have to go on a wild goose chase to find it. We have many other jokes too, like metric crescent wrenches, the keys to the jet, exhaust samples, echo checks (where airmen yell down the intake and/or exhaust to check for an echo) and many others that won’t make sense unless you work on jet aircraft. Glad to see that we aren’t the only ones messing with the newbies.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:42:02 +0000

I am a farmer in N. Ga. We have always asked the new city boys who come to work the summers for us to go to the hardware store and pick us up a new 2×4 stretcher. To this day we have yet to receive one.

By: Dutch

Dutch — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:39:32 +0000

I’ve been a zookeeper for 40 years. This sounds like the old “Keeper’s Golden Bucket” search, we used to send newbie keepers on. They don’t do it anymore. Not politically correct.

By: Laura Hurse

Laura Hurse — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:11:23 +0000

I just discvered this show and I can’t get enough. I lived in alaska 60 years ago, Valdez it was. Now as an old granny my television takes me there again! Thank you all and yes, stay safe.

By: Du Hast

Du Hast — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:11:56 +0000

US Navy in the Tonkin Gulf in 1972. We sent a guy up to the office of the Main Propulsion Assistant (who was a crusty warrant officer) and had him request permission to float test #2 boiler. To float test means to throw something overboard.

There were many other wild goose chases for prop wash, 10 feet of chow (or water) line, relative bearing grease, the Golden Rivet, offset wiggler shafts and packing jacks.

By: James Webster

James Webster — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:49:20 +0000

Azimuth hunting, Hey kid go shoot me some Azimuths

what do I do . . . I am an unobtaintanium ( un obtain tanium) miner it’s really difficult to find (like fishing)

I sent a guy, in recieving, after a box of “Pink emery sparks” “Yeah I ordered them last week. ” The owner of the company, after four hours, ask me if this was a joke. Well yes!! It turned out that the office staff (25 people) were looking for the box and the purchase order.

how about, for the kids, get me the giggly pins for the you who valves

may you can of brake dust (or wave brake) be full, you throw that over to stop the ship

James

By: Ramona

Ramona — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:16:48 +0000

Yeah yeah yeah. It’s all funny as hell til YOU are the target! LOLOL! Back in ‘77 I was in the Air Force and assigned to a No Cal base with the SR-71. At the time the engines required the use of two Buick 554 Wildcat engines to start the aircraft engines. Big heavy carts that required a tractor to move them efficiently. Well, there was this flightline instructor that always thought it funny to get a new class of us puny little airmen basics, show us around the flightline just about time the jet was being prepared for take off. When it was time to install the Buicks and get them fired up he would invariably pretend that they woudn’t start…!!! This would always be a mission of ‘top secret importance’ and they HAD to get the start carts running. The only option was……… to push start. These buggers would strain 4 grown men, but there we were - huffing, puffing, pushing, groaning, straining and so proud of ourselves when suddenly the engines would fire to life and other maintenance workers stood and cheered our efforts!!! Damn were we the BEST class to hit the line!!!! Sometimes it would take an hour of pushing before he would have pity on us and turn the key to the on position and fire the Buicks electrically.

Oh yeah, and I don’t know how many of us were sent t the tool crib to request a few yards of flightline. Till the one day someone returned with a rope and tied the instructor to an engine start cart. Suddenly he didn’t think it was all so funny! LOLOLOL!

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:02:03 +0000

Don’t forget about those ferocious Sea Bats that some one has to sit watch for on the bow with a broom, the sky hooks that need to be found, bearing grease, and, of course, the tried and true keys to the sea chest.

By: lisa

lisa — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:12:05 +0000

too funny. working 2 years on a crab and salmon boat myself in the 80s i was put through hell. But I thank GOD for it now, It made me alot stronger and gave me a great sence of humor. Nothing wrong with good clean fun. Keep it up Phil, I am always watching. Lisa

By: Idetrorce

Idetrorce — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:47:41 +0000

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce

By: Ro DeBell

Ro DeBell — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:54:44 +0000

My ex-husband was in the Navy - boatswainmate. One of the many stories he told me was about taking out the new kids and doing a ‘light bulb inspection’. They would walk the ship looking for blown light bulbs. When they found one, they would send the new guy down to the supply room to ask for the “light bulb repair kit”. The new kids were usually so overwhelmed and terrified of their superiors and didn’t understand half of the “technical” terms being used so in their best military manner they simply did what they were told and said what they were told to say. Being an old joke, the supply room generally gave the kid a bag with some broken pieces of whatnot and string and sent him back to ‘repair’ the broken bulb. I love that one!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:05:32 +0000

Don’t forget the key the the sea chest.

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By: Theresa

Theresa — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:54:00 +0000

While in the Navy (right out of EN ‘A’ school) on my first ship, I was instructed to go to the boiler room and get a BT punch, well needless to say I got a BT (boiler tech) punch, landed on my a$$ and had a bruise from shoulder to elbow. Funny now but not then.

By: SnoozieQ

SnoozieQ — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:06:34 +0000

In response to Du Hast’s post referring to “Relative Bearing Grease” there was one occation where on the USS Saratoga my husband an HM3 (Hospital Corpsman Third Class) was told to find just that. The funny thing is that back in the 1900’s there was the Realitive Co out of Portsmouth, RI, and wouldn’t ya know it, they made bearing grease! It was in a metal tin the size of a gallon paint can and had a red and black label. So, who got one over on whom?

By: Bill Paris

Bill Paris — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:56:42 +0000

Great story! Takes me back to the days of my youth working in an auto parts shop. Was sent to another store for “muffler bearings”, “driveshaft fluid”, and the like. God bless and take care…

By: Brandi

Brandi — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:24:47 +0000

O My God i would have done the same thing. i seem to have a problem with catching on sometimes too. It would suck to be emberessed in front of the whole crew but they have to break the greenhorn in some how. everyone needs to laugh at themselves here and there.

By: Bob Wagner

Bob Wagner — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:31:33 +0000

Hilarious! We used to do that in the Air Force all the time, send newbies out for 5 gallons of prop wash, I never thought about it for boats, I will have to dust it off…

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:55:35 +0000

I love the sense of humor y’all have!

Years ago, my hubby and I worked as carney’s and we always had kids bugging us to play the games for free. After a while, to get the kids off our backs for a little while so we could work, we’d sent them off on a errand to get us either dart-hole remover, blue light bulb grease, or the keys to the midway. Usually, after an hour or so, they’d come back, laughing, after they realized they’d been had and no such thing existed. As a reward for their hard work, we’d let em play a free game or two. After all, they did entertain us. :0)

By: Rick Frazer Jr

Rick Frazer Jr — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:08:28 +0000

We’ve done similar things to new guys when I owned my landscaping business, things like a brick stretcher or a left handed hammer. Always a good laugh to get the new guy on a harmless joke. Most of us have been on the receiving end of them. I took my six year old on a snipe hunt in the backyard at the beginning of the summer. Hate to see the D.C. season coming to an end today. Hope to see the Cornelia Marie returning to the show next season, my favorite boat, capt and crew! Good luck guys!

By: John Galt

John Galt — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:29:07 +0000

Greetings to the crew……………This prank reminds me of my early Boy Scout camping trips where they sent us out to other troop camps site for a “left handed smoke shifter”
They also took us “Snipe hunting” where we stood under trees holding bags to catch the Snipes when they fell from the trees.

My grandfather also told us a story about his early days as a machinist when they sent him upstairs for a “bucket of steam” to prime the machine.

Great stuff……………..

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:03:36 +0000

how bout looking for c g u 11’s. I fell for this one when I got abourd after Navy boot camp

By: Kristina from GA!!!

Kristina from GA!!! — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:38:05 +0000

i went hunting with my dad one time. now mind you i hate hunting and dont believe in killing animals. well they gave me a flashlight and a walmart bag and sent me out in the woods by myself. they left me standing there crying in the dark whil;e they all got a kick out of scaring me half to death.

i would love to work on the cornelia marie though. they would get me every time. im very gullable. i love you guys.. keep it up.

By: Annalyzer

Annalyzer — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:53:36 +0000

Reminds me of when my son, Jake, got his first logging job and they told him to run up the hill and bring back two T-R-double-E’s. He was most of the way up the hill before he realized he had been sent to fetch trees.

By: Mark Newcombe

Mark Newcombe — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:07:17 +0000

I used to work at a service station which had a carwash and next to us was a restaurant we frequented quite often ( free food for free car washes) and we would send the new gas jockeys over to the restaurant with an empty, coverless, 5 gallon plastic bucket to collect STEAM for the HOT WAX application!