Pipelayers jokes and saying ...you got any?

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@Philliam

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt on the old Brown & Root Barge 347. As a young Marine Surveyor from the Pacific Northwest complete with long hair and beard, an assignment to the 347 was a trip. Tower hands said “Whoa man, when Kenny Ward (Barge Super.) lays eyes on you, he gon’ run you off, no shit”. Somehow, most likely due to some slick night-time barge positioning, I got in that ol’ Mississippi redneck’s good graces, so forever after when survey crews were assembled he’d say “I want that Hippie on my barge”. Such was life in the Oil Patch.

Heh, heh. Brown & Root also, still got my hardhat. Semac 1 - North Sea. Tower hand and crane operator, mostly. Joe Wray was barge super back then.

We need to have a beer and tell some lies sometime. (Lies, because for an old pipeliner based from Amsterdam in the 80’s, the truth would get me in a lot more trouble)