Quote:Duane Peters wrote:David Gerrold took the latter into the far future in his Star Wolf series, with a new crewman of the Star Wolf being sent in search of the left-handed Mobius wrench. At the end of the snipe hunt (which had the purpose of sending the crewman throughout the whole ship, familiarizing him with its layout, the various crew chiefs, and jobs that he might be called to assist with in emergencies), he was awarded with a pipe wrench that had been bent into a Mobius strip.
Don't forget AC batteries and the infamous left-handed monkey wrench.
A friend of mine, stationed on the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, came up with a rather elaborate prank (all of Eric's pranks have been elaborate, some might say overly so) involving sending a new swabbie out to watch for the "mail buoy." This involved getting the cooperation of everyone from the XO down to the lowest computer tech (Eric was in Crypto, which also handled ship's email). The XO informed the Captain, so the Captain was in on it as well. A procedural manual was written up according to Navy SOP and kept in an official binder, along with the other Crypto department SOPs. Everything was set up, just so they could park the poor bastard out on the observation deck with a 7 lbs. pair of field glasses, a spare flight deck crew helmet, and safety orange vest, scanning the horizon for the "mail buoy" and getting a sunburn.
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