What do you call the guy who would walk up and down the aisle in a ship's galley? You know, the guy who'd crack the whip if the slaves were rowing too slow? I'm certain there was a name for this person...what would they list it as on a resume? And also, didn't this person wear a mask like an executioner?

I'm looking for serious answers here, but feel free to get all smartassery out of your system on this thread. I mean, you know - what the hell.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

Anxiety said:

Isn't the ship's kitchen called the galley?

As you're presumably talking about slave ships his title would be Slave Master.

If the oarsmen were workers as opposed to slaves then they wouldn't have had a guy cracking a whip, instead they would often have had a guy banging a drum to keep the rhythm, he would have been called the Chief Oarsman.

And as applekisses has mentioned, the Galley is actually the kitchen. What you're talking about would probably have been called the oar deck, or on a slave ship it would be called the slave deck as that's where they lived, chained to their oars.

applekisses said:

and the place on the ship where they hang the art is the gallery...



and when they count the people on board, it's a tally.
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cborgman said:

i was actually hoping for more smartassery, to be perfectly honest.

Anxiety said:

In that case the guy who walks up and down the aisle in a ship's galley is called The Pasta Chef, and that's not a whip he's flinging about, it's dinner. He's separating his pasta before leaving it to dry on the boom (technical term for the big horizontal stick that they tie the bottom of the sail with).

Yes, The Pasta Chef would often be seen wearing a mask, due to the amount of flour required for the preparation of pasta.

cborgman said:

The cook is named Sally.
He hails from Cali.....fornia.



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Once we tell you to we become the "galley slaves" and you become the whatever it is you call the guy who cracks the whip.

applekisses said:

It's where they cook the dead slaves for Slave Soup.

cborgman said:

The policeman on board is named O'Malley.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/n...mpson.html



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AsylumUtopia said:

Well that's an oxymoron if ever I heard one

you know what this thread needs?

more smartassery

cborgman said:

that's what i'm sayin'.

Anxiety said:

if you were on the ship, you would be called fatty fatty boombalattey

cborgman said:

I know someone else who said the same thing about my cat. I didn't know it was a catch phrase.

:smartassery:

cborgman said:

if you were on the ship, you would be called chum.

Anxiety said:

I thought he'd be called the dead rat scooper.

Maybe the boatswain or coxswain.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled smartassery.


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JimmyNothing said:

It's not. Are you saying you've never heard of a slave master ? Do some reading.

theAudience said:

ha! this is what i was looking for! i knew i could count on you for the real poop!

ok, this thread can now officially devolve into full-on smartassery now.

thank you, that is all.

Anxiety said:

...You are most welcome


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Anxiety said:

chum? i don't want to be your friend...

cborgman said:

not that kind of chum, chump.

Anxiety said:

don't call me a chump, chimp.