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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:20:31 PM EDT
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Everyone switches seats. You move to the opposite side of the plane.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:20:48 PM EDT
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The line-crossing ceremony is an initiation rite that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands, and become a "folly" sanctioned as a boost to morale, or have been created as a test for seasoned sailors to ensure their new shipmates were capable of handling long rough times at sea. Equator-crossing ceremonies, typically featuring King Neptune, are common in the navy and are also sometimes carried out for passengers' entertainment on civilian ocean liners and cruise ships. They are also performed in the merchant navy and aboard sail training ships. Throughout history, line-crossing ceremonies have sometimes become dangerous hazing rituals. Most modern navies have instituted regulations that prohibit physical attacks on sailors undergoing the line-crossing ceremony.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:21:30 PM EDT
[#3]
You step outside and grab some fresh air
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:21:46 PM EDT
[#4]
I don't know but when I did it on a smallish sail boat we all got neekkkkid and drank champagne and took a swim.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:22:08 PM EDT
[#5]
They refill your drink.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:22:53 PM EDT
[#6]
Never had one by plane.
Shellbacks are a whole.other story, or is that crossing the IDL? |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:23:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't know but when I did it on a smallish sail boat we all got neekkkkid and drank champagne and took a swim. Navy? |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:24:43 PM EDT
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You have to eat a cherry from the bellybutton of the fattest person onboard that is already a shellback. The next day that person has wicked sunburn.
God save your soul if you are senior enlisted or officer and still a poliwog. |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:25:34 PM EDT
[#9]
People actually celebrate crossing the Equator? Lol, ooookay then.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:38:50 PM EDT
[#10]
In my MAC days it was pretty much:
Nav: "We just crossed the equator". The rest of the crew: "OK". |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:40:14 PM EDT
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lol - there is no ceremony when you cross the equator in a plane. I’m honestly not sure if the OP is just joking.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:40:47 PM EDT
[#12]
I slept through it.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:43:11 PM EDT
[#13]
The plane has to go inverted at precisely the right moment of crossing so wear your seatbelt.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:43:51 PM EDT
[#14]
Only for rust pickers and squid eaters.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:48:06 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: lol - there is no ceremony when you cross the equator in a plane. I’m honestly not sure if the OP is just joking. Come on, get with the spirit! |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:48:56 PM EDT
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Quoted: I’m hoping to go on a trip in the fall and I would be crossing the equator. On a plane how is the ceremony done? I just want to prepare my self or is the ceremony only for seamen? Coke bottle up the ass. |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:49:15 PM EDT
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In the old days you would tap on the whisky compass and wind the clock. Today you glance at the GPS and go back to reading your iPad.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:50:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: People actually celebrate crossing the Equator? Lol, ooookay then. It's a Navy thing. You wouldn't understand.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:55:18 PM EDT
[#19]
Closest I’ve been to crossing it is Quito Ecuador
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:55:47 PM EDT
[#20]
Somewhere in a box of stuff is some card my grandpa got during WWII for his ship crossing the equator on his way to Pacific theater. I assume everyone got one. Neat keepsake.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:56:59 PM EDT
[#21]
Sleep through it or drink through it.
This is the way ! |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:57:04 PM EDT
[#22]
I’ve crossed the equator before between London and joburg and I don’t recall anything about it.
This time will be over the pacific. |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:58:15 PM EDT
[#23]
I think I've been asleep every time I've done it
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Posted: 3/9/2021 12:59:07 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: lol - there is no ceremony when you cross the equator in a plane. I’m honestly not sure if the OP is just joking. You could have made something up. How would we know? |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:00:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Navy? Private sailboat owned by a friend of my ex-wife's family. We sailed out of NC to the Azores and down to Barbados. This was many years ago. I just remember champaign flowing and being told to get naked for the God of the sea. So in the middle of the ocean I dove in. |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:01:51 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: lol - there is no ceremony when you cross the equator in a plane. I’m honestly not sure if the OP is just joking. It's a legit deal. Each ship has their own ceremony. It's up to the captain. In my case the captain was a Naturist. And I recommend you not look up what naturist if you don't want child porn on your computer. |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:02:17 PM EDT
[#27]
Take a big dump in the bathroom and don't flush.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:02:23 PM EDT
[#28]
My father was a merchant sailor during WWII, and crossed the line in the three oceans crossed by the equator.
He once said they celebrated by "not getting torpedoed." |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:04:51 PM EDT
[#29]
Bunch of nasty ‘wogs in this thread.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:06:40 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You have to eat a cherry from the bellybutton of the fattest person onboard that is already a shellback. The next day that person has wicked sunburn. God save your soul if you are senior enlisted or officer and still a poliwog. While the shellbacks were marching the special case wogs up the ladders and out onto the flight deck I just kept on going up the ladders and hid out on the 08 level. Eventually one of the shellbacks learned to count and the game was on. About 20 of them swarmed up into the island and I got captured and made to suffer for my insubordination to Neptune. I had about 20 minutes of peace and quiet up there. I needed it.  |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:06:48 PM EDT
[#31]
Bunch of wogs in this thread.
Though that being said Shellback ceremonies are so watered down now. Wouldn't want to offend anyone now. |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:08:30 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Somewhere in a box of stuff is some card my grandpa got during WWII for his ship crossing the equator on his way to Pacific theater. I assume everyone got one. Neat keepsake. Quote HistoryQuoted: Somewhere in a box of stuff is some card my grandpa got during WWII for his ship crossing the equator on his way to Pacific theater. I assume everyone got one. Neat keepsake. That card was very important. Saved you the hazing the next time you crossed. Quoted: Though that being said Shellback ceremonies are so watered down now. Wouldn't want to offend anyone now. Friend of mine crossed when he was on his Mass. Maritime Academy summer cruise. There was some hazing but he did become a shellback. Later went into the USN and crossed. The senior chiefs thought they'd be having some fun with the new young officers on board. My friend got out of it since he had his card. |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:09:50 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: As an E-5 I was a special case because I worked in the television studio. They wanted us beaten hard and early so we could video the rest. While the shellbacks were marching the special case wogs up the ladders and out onto the flight deck I just kept on going up the ladders and hid out on the 08 level. Eventually one of the shellbacks learned to count and the game was on. About 20 of them swarmed up into the island and I got captured and made to suffer for my insubordination to Neptune. I had about 20 minutes of peace and quiet up there. I needed it. So whe did you move to moschigan.... youbwent from bad to bad. Are you a glutton? |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:12:13 PM EDT
[#34]
Nothing happens on a commercial flight...
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:12:26 PM EDT
[#35]
No celebration by joining mile high club?
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:14:30 PM EDT
[#36]
Bad news OP, you're gonna be a nasty wog until you do it on a boat
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:14:50 PM EDT
[#37]
I was asleep on a flight to Johannesburg. I don’t think I was drugged or molested when we crossed.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:16:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: People actually celebrate crossing the Equator? Lol, ooookay then. In days of ole when ships had to cross the equator it had to be done with oars in many cases. The weather is such that there's a zone along the equator called the "doldrums". So the sailing ships of old broke out the oars and the sailors had to row the several hundred miles until catching the wind again. Until you had crossed the line with the ship, until you had spent your hours and hours on the oars rowing to exhaustion you weren't "tested" and therefore untrustworthy. With the advent of steam the oars were struck and the testing of sailors became a traditional ceremony. In the early 1980s when I earned my shellback the initiation was far more rigorous than what happens today. Our shellbacks managed to blind about 30 sailors during my initiation. All but two or three regained their site by the next day, the remaining improved under the care of an optomologist who had to be flown out to treat all the cases. Once women started serving aboard ships the "warrior" traditions started to get dismantled quickly. Shellback initiation was one of the first to go. Paul "trusty shellback" many many times over.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:26:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You could have made something up. How would we know? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: lol - there is no ceremony when you cross the equator in a plane. I’m honestly not sure if the OP is just joking. You could have made something up. How would we know? Well, obviously in First Class, it is tradition that the hottest of the stewardesses does a strip tease, timed so that the last piece of clothing comes off EXACTLY when the plane crosses the equator. The oldest passenger gets to keep the panties, and if it is your first time crossing the equator in first class, you get to drink champagne out of her pumps. ... but I didn't want the unwashed masses to feel bad, so I didn't mention it.  |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:28:58 PM EDT
[#40]
You put your seat backs and tray tables in the upright position. If you want to return them back to their previous position you have to pay Icarus a 10% tithe of your Skymiles.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:31:20 PM EDT
[#41]
What happens if you flush the toilet in the northern hemisphere and then cross into the southern hemisphere during the flush?
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:31:40 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: No celebration by joining mile high club? I was on a job trip so I just snuck into the bathroom and ran a batch in the sink 
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:34:04 PM EDT
[#43]
You have to switch seats with the pilot, better start studying.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:36:09 PM EDT
[#44]
Run to the front of the plane screaming about bears on the plane while you strip your clothes off. When you get to the front, try to open the cockpit door. If you succeed you win, if you don’t you will still get a participation ceremony when you land. Either way win/win.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:36:16 PM EDT
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I operated a flight from HNL to SYD on the Solstice. I was in the longest and shortest day of the year on the same day.
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:37:42 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Bunch of nasty ‘wogs in this thread. Ha ha. Exactly right. Nothing like getting your ass beat with a rubber hose. |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:38:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:So whe did you move to moschigan.... youbwent from bad to bad. Are you a glutton? Lost two homes in Idaho, there are none left there for me. The market there is too small for what I'm looking for in property.  As a Boy Scout I was a member, patrol leader, and then senior patrol leader of a troop that camped every month. We were out of the Chicago area but camped all around Lake Michigan. I fell in love with the lush forest of the Ottawa National Forest that runs through Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. So rather than moving to Michigan I'm becoming a Yoopper. It was Michigan over Washington and Oregon states. Different forests, same feels. 
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:43:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What happens if you flush the toilet in the northern hemisphere and then cross into the southern hemisphere during the flush? Turns into a bidet. |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:50:58 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, obviously in First Class, it is tradition that the hottest of the stewardesses does a strip tease, timed so that the last piece of clothing comes off EXACTLY when the plane crosses the equator. The oldest passenger gets to keep the panties, and if it is your first time crossing the equator in first class, you get to drink champagne out of her pumps. ... but I didn't want the unwashed masses to feel bad, so I didn't mention it. That’s the spirit! I’ll likely be in business class though. Likely be the most we can squeeze out of the mileage. |
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Posted: 3/9/2021 1:56:29 PM EDT
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You pick a random and motorboat....
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