The new seamen were having their one -on-one interviews with the ship captain, a wiry old veteran of the seas.
"Morning. What's your name, lad?"
"John, Sir..."
"This is the old navy on my boat boy. You call me 'Captain', and I call you by your surname. Got that?"
"Aye,aye, Captain!"
"So, what's your name, then?"
"Darling, Captain, John Darling!"
"OK, that will be all, John. Dismissed!"
