Glacier (WAGB 4) - Naval Cruise Book

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King Neptune The Queen and her baby I Davy Jones and his crew I. Conan in the wrong century Crossing the equator on the 8th of Nov. 1984 was a rude awakening for all the scurvy wogs on board. Roused at 0500 - after being awakened several times the evening before for mundane picayune reasons - they were not in the mood for what was to follow. What did follow cannot be repeated here in terms amenable to family reading. Suffice it to say, The sadists had a field day. The highlight of the day for the ■wogs was their introduc- tion to the royal family of the sea. The King, resplendent in royal finery of polyester from the house of Don Ho Dior, greeted each sojourner with equally unflattering remarks and introduced them to Queen Amphitrite. She of the inflamed and putrid pedal digits. The trip through royal-family-land ended when the would- be-shellback was rudely passed on for an intimate meeting with the extremely rotund Royal Baby ' s wooly, louse-infested intestinal covering. All-in-all, a good day to have done with. Finally a shellback 87

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THE MAKING OF A SHELLBACK Guilty or not guilty, WOG Captain Quartermaster Hope you can swim wog, throw him over LTjg Oveson hearing the charges against her Birth Canal 86

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Tell us again that we have flight ops Sunday iS{ nh U fA . Scientists pulling mummified remains of extinct animal free of the ice Hit and walk driver on Antarc- tic freeway leaves 4 injured and dazed. Film at 11. Pictured at right is the sport most rapidly advancing in popularity in Antarctica. Penguin Bowling. Here our bowler is trying to pick up a 1 penguin spare. The people at left are penguin setters. Shortly they will have to catch ten new penguins. The sport is significantly more difficult than conventional bowling in that the targets normally do not stay still and have been known to parry the balls with their beaks. 88 J