O/T a bit, but I gotta get this one out there.
When I was an Ordinary Seaman a couple decades back, a good buddy of mine was up standing lookout on the bridge. To break up the monotony, he stapled a toy parrot to the shoulder of his jacket and would hold up the binoculars to the parrot every other sweep of the horizon. The Officer of the Watch was all set to tear a strip off of him, but couldn't, since the Captain was sitting in his chair watching this, crying, he was laughing so hard.
We later kidnapped Polly and posted pictures all over the ship. Got us a case of beer in ransom... ahh the good old days when you could have some fun!