Captain's Choice Anniversary Contest

[Captain Pre-Capsize]

Captain's Choice Anniversary Contest
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Who wouldn't want to win either this?

OR this:

What better way to start the year off than by celebrating one full year of Captain's Choice being available? And that is not all. In just the past year we have added our second aftershave as well as a terrific line of bar soaps for the bath and shower.

Captain's Choice also has some exciting developments in the works. Stay tuned, we should be able to reveal one of them by March and another soon after. I would be surprised if anyone could guess - it may not necessarily be a new product - but anything is possible...

This is CONUS only please. Here is all that you need to do. Share the story of a prank you have pulled on another or been the victim of. The winner will be drawn by a random list generator on January 26. Then just pick which of our aftershaves you prefer. Good luck!​

 

[dladuke]

In college we used to take album sleeves, fill them with shaving cream, slide the opening under the door of the victim's room and stomp on them, sending shaving cream across the room.

 

[Turk Kahvesi]

In a rural area near where I grew up, there was an abandoned plantation house, in disrepair and falling apart. My friends brought me out there one night, as we were determined to finally climb the gate and explore the place. Well, this is in the middle of NOWHERE, and the place had many ghastly stories floating about it. There was also a neaby abandoned mental institution that only added to the chill.

As my 16 year old self approached the gate, one of my friends had positioned his pickup in the nearby woods and pressed his brake pedal, sending eerie red light across the old wrought iron gate. They momentarily looked like the gates of hell. Another hidden friend beat on the iron bars of the fence with a stick and I screamed like a little girl. It may not sound all that scary, but in that atmosphere, with all the horrible stories about that place, I almost wet myself.

Love the Captain's Choice and I'm very eager to try the Cat O' Nine Tails. Thanks for the chance.

 

[neilyasno]

As a kid, I took 2 eggs and hardboiled one. I then pulled them both out of the fridge with my brother watching and proceeded chasing him around the house threatening to smash it on his head to teach him a lesson. When I finally brought him to the ground and hit him in the head with the egg he finally realized the joke and began laughing. I then gave him the other egg which was raw and told him to go show mommy. Naturally neither mommy or daddy found this funny and I didn't find being grounded that funny. I was a very cruel child. But we do laugh about this now.

 

[ChefJohnBoy-ardee]

While working at a summer camp, drove the camp director's Jeep Wrangler into the dining hall. It barely fit.

We also set a tent up on a floating dock in the middle of the swimming pool, put an outhouse around the flag pole, covered the camp director's cabin in hale bales, filled his bathtub with water and goldfish, hid alarm clocks to go off at random times in the middle of the night in a guy's tent- including sewing them into his mattress...

While working in a kitchen, I don't know how many sets of keys and other random personal items I've frozen into blocks of ice, hid rubber snakes throughout the kitchen to mess with the souschef who was afraid of snakes, etc etc

Both places I could be relied upon to put the cigarette poppers into peoples smokes. That one would take talents because first you had to get the cigs away from them for a minute or three and third was get the poppers into the cigarette so it didn't look tampered with and also so you couldn't see the popper from the tip...

I can go on. I was/am a brat!

 

[Mick]

Share the story of a prank you have pulled on another or been the victim of. The winner will be drawn by a random list generator on January 26. Then just pick which of our aftershaves you prefer. Good luck!

When I was 8 and my sister was 6 I put her on a store escalator and said "Bye, have a nice trip" as I stayed at the bottom.

She still has not forgiven me for that.

Hey what can I say, I was 8 years old

 

[shaverjoe]

Obiwan, a friend and fellow forum member, afforded me the opportunity to borrow several rare coticules, a set of Naniwa honing stones, 3 straight razors- one being a recently restored mint MK32, and a TM Latigo strop- a leather TM no longer works with. I had the items for about a month, maybe 6 weeks-enough time to use all the items comfortably. As you can tell, essentially all the items were irreplaceable with the exception of the Naniwa stones. I commented several times prior to returning the items I hoped all would make it back safely.

I packaged the items meticulously, double wrapping the coticules-even putting packing peanuts between each, then shipped them back with tracking and delivery confirmation. I followed the tracking closely and when the items read "delivered," I contacted Obiwan to ensure all arrived safely. This, of course, happened in the early evening. He informed me he had received a notice in the mail the boxes had arrived at the post office but one box had sustained some "damage" and items were likely missing. I was understandably upset, scared an item had been lost which could not be replaced. He assured me it was likely just a loose flap or tear in the box as this had happened to him a number of times in the past. This did little to reassure me and I spent the night on-call worried I had lost something I could in no way replace.

The next morning, as I eft the hospital, I contacted Obiwan and he said he was headed to the post office to see what had happened. Shortly afterwards, Obiwan texted me a photo of one of the boxes I had shipped with a large tear in the box with packing paper sticking out of the hole and one coticule on a table- suggesting all the coticules but one were lost, along with the razors- including the restored minty MK32.

I was sick. There was no way I could replace the items. Obiwan assured me the post office staff said the items would likely show up in time, over the next few weeks. This was not encouraging and all I could do was apologize- though that did nothing for me either.

Again, I was post call and headed home to go to bed.

About 5 minutes later, Obiwan sent me a text stating everything had arrived safely the day before but he couldn't resist the opportunity to get me! And boy he got me! And to be honest, I would have done the exact same thing.

Let me close by saying Obiwan is one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. He is kind, charitable, and one heck of a prankster. Well done my friend.

 

[global_dev]

Got home from elementary school, my brother was telling me not to be sad or angry, but no one was around when it happened. What happened I asked. Go see for yourself... there in my bed was a bunch of dog vomit...

How is anyone gonna sleep where the dog vomited, even if its cleaned up. I was so sad..maybe almost in tears...everyone was laughing at the situation... I was like that's not cool. What if this was your bed. Stop laughing. I don't know how to clean up vomit from a bed. Maybe a floor, but sheets, mattress.. its gonna be disgusting forever... I want a new matress.. no I need a new ,mattress..

Everyone is still laughing...what is wrong with them...

My brother walks over picks up the vomit and .. totally not cool

 

[Doc226]

Obiwan, a friend and fellow forum member, afforded me the opportunity to borrow several rare coticules, a set of Naniwa honing stones, 3 straight razors- one being a recently restored mint MK32, and a TM Latigo strop- a leather TM no longer works with. I had the items for about a month, maybe 6 weeks-enough time to use all the items comfortably. As you can tell, essentially all the items were irreplaceable with the exception of the Naniwa stones. I commented several times prior to returning the items I hoped all would make it back safely.

I packaged the items meticulously, double wrapping the coticules-even putting packing peanuts between each, then shipped them back with tracking and delivery confirmation. I followed the tracking closely and when the items read "delivered," I contacted Obiwan to ensure all arrived safely. This, of course, happened in the early evening. He informed me he had received a notice in the mail the boxes had arrived at the post office but one box had sustained some "damage" and items were likely missing. I was understandably upset, scared an item had been lost which could not be replaced. He assured me it was likely just a loose flap or tear in the box as this had happened to him a number of times in the past. This did little to reassure me and I spent the night on-call worried I had lost something I could in no way replace.

The next morning, as I eft the hospital, I contacted Obiwan and he said he was headed to the post office to see what had happened. Shortly afterwards, Obiwan texted me a photo of one of the boxes I had shipped with a large tear in the box with packing paper sticking out of the hole and one coticule on a table- suggesting all the coticules but one were lost, along with the razors- including the restored minty MK32.

I was sick. There was no way I could replace the items. Obiwan assured me the post office staff said the items would likely show up in time, over the next few weeks. This was not encouraging and all I could do was apologize- though that did nothing for me either.

Again, I was post call and headed home to go to bed.

About 5 minutes later, Obiwan sent me a text stating everything had arrived safely the day before but he couldn't resist the opportunity to get me! And boy he got me! And to be honest, I would have done the exact same thing.

Let me close by saying Obiwan is one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. He is kind, charitable, and one heck of a prankster. Well done my friend.

LOL, I payed a small part of this and egged shaverjoe on. LOL

 

[Obiwan]

Lol, all in good fun friend. I thought you would've listed about our Christmas avatars instead, lol.

 

[Domminigan]

Took my new girlfriend to a family party. Seconds before we walked in, I popped a gold ring on my finger and a matching one on hers. We walked in and I announced we were late because we'd stopped off at the courthouse to get married.
Everyone was shocked, even the new girlfriend, but she played along. Finally gave it up when Grandma started tearing up.

 

[shaverjoe]

Lol, all in good fun friend. I thought you would've listed about our Christmas avatars instead, lol.

Another very good one.

 

[helogman]

I had a buddy at work that loved his Snickers bars. He would only have one a day at the most and would savor it after his dinner break (we worked 2nd shift military). He opened his prize-possession and took his first bite when he was called,out to an aircraft for a Quality check. I went over to his desk and slid the candy bar out of the wrapper. I took a jagged bite from the opposite end and slid it back into the the package and put it neatly back on his desk. He returned and began enjoying his snack. When he finally pulled the bar from the wrapper finding the bitten end he was so mad. Needless to say I am still watching my back to this day.

 

[Head Rigger]

In boat manufacturing when you mate the deck and hull together the deck will occasionally not properly overlap the hull. This is usually because something wasn't cut or trimmed, or there is too much material or resin build up. The customary thing to do is to send the FNG (f'ing new guy) to go get the DECK STRETCHER so the deck can be stretched to fit. Everyone knows this joke and will keep him or her busy for quite awhile until someone finally takes pity on them and tells them there is no such thing or the problem is fixed and you need them to get back to work. This also works well with wiring, carpet, hatches, etc. Thanks for the PIF!

 

[Price]

In boat manufacturing when you mate the deck and hull together the deck will occasionally not properly overlap the hull. This is usually because something wasn't cut or trimmed, or there is too much material or resin build up. The customary thing to do is to send the FNG (f'ing new guy) to go get the DECK STRETCHER so the deck can be stretched to fit. Everyone knows this joke and will keep him or her busy for quite awhile until someone finally takes pity on them and tells them there is no such thing or the problem is fixed and you need them to get back to work. This also works well with wiring, carpet, hatches, etc. Thanks for the PIF!

The Navy has a long and glorious tradition of heckling the "FNG", with all kinds of assorted pranks. Find the ID10T forms, go get an HT punch, etc. My personal favorite:

When returning from their first underway, most new young sailors like to go up topside and enjoy the view as the ship pulls into port. The Coronado Bay bridge across San Diego bay appears, from the angle of approach, to be too low to pass under. (The clearance is small, about 10 feet or so.) As we approached the bridge, with a shocked look, we would suddenly cuss and shout something about the mast not having been cranked down, and hurriedly send the new guy to get the mast crank. He would invariably race off, and be sent all over the ship, with a growing sense of dread that any second the ship would collide with the bridge - and that it would be his fault.


Congratulations, BTW, Captain. Looking forward to seeing what the new year will bring!

 

[McJAGGER]

When I was 12 and without a girlfriend, my brother gave me a Valentine. I thought the idea was nice until I opened the card. He had placed a huge booger in it and circled around it with a pen, just to make sure I noticed.

 

[jay67212]

As a soldier in Korea, I decided I would initiate the new troops coming in country, just like had been done to me. I sent them on missions to get a T-R-E-E or "grid squares". It was a broadcast station, so I would send the FNG's to the supply room to get a handful of canned air or focus gel for the studio cameras. Lots of fun!

 

[Jess]

In college I drove pennies into the door of my neighbor. This, basically made it impossible for him to get out of his room....making him late to class. In hindsight, probably not the best prank to pull on someone, but it was funny at the time.

 

[chado006]

Whenever an unsuspecting friend or family member is sleeping while I'm driving, I do the classic "stomp the brakes and scream" prank. It's even better when we're driving behind a semi pulling another semi backwards.
I've always thought this would be an amazing prank as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIJrwP3WavM Would be so scary but so good!

 

[5 o'clock shadow]

In the first shop I worked in as a civilian, we would charge capacitors and leave them laying around for the next unsuspecting tech to come through.

In basic training, we had rack drills (strip and remake your bunk) almost every day. The guy in the bunk next to mine figured he would try and cheat by sleeping on his bedding instead of in it, so I took a handful of safety pins and pinned everything to the mattress. The instructors wanted to see bare mattresses this time. He was still trying to get the sheets off his bunk when the rest of us had finished with the drill.