My daughter is a Lieutenant in the RN (weapons) and she has good stories
about the games / sport they adapt from real life.
One of their favorites is table football* on the flight deck. The two
teams stand in a few straight rows (emulating the lines of players on a
table football game) and cannot move anything except one kicking leg. No
goalkeepers. The ball always ends up in the drink...
* = baby-foot in France
Another favorite is a version of Kerplunk. In the original version you have
to remove sticks poked through a vertical transparent tube, without letting
a load of marbles resting on the sticks fall. In their version, they
duct-tape the smallest sailor to the ceiling and they take it in turns to
remove the tape piece-by-piece trying not to remove the piece that will make
him/her crash to the ground. Loser is next to be stuck up.
br
jez
On 3/19/07, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> He always
> had plenty of stories but none of them about seagull fishing.
> The modern equivalent would be urban rat fishing in alleys. Damn good
>
>
> On 19/03/2007, at 10:44 AM, Scott Peden wrote:
> > In the 40's, in the navy at Gibraltar my Dad use to play 'bird on a
> > string'
> > with the other guys which was a piece of pork tied on a 20' string,
> > and
> > they'd see who could get the most seagulls on one string.
> >
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