Crossing the Equator
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today's a special day though what's gonna happen today is really well I believe we're going to be crossing the equator
I'll be sitting here on our balcony looking for that line oh well you know what I'm gonna be doing I'm gonna be up with the pole watching all the festivities
it can be quite gross I mean back to medieval days be really brutally tortured one another when they went across the equator for the first time
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The Equator line-crossing ceremony is an initiation rite that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands, and become a "folly" sanctioned as a boost to morale, or have been created as a test for seasoned sailors to ensure their new shipmates were capable of handling long rough times at sea. Equator-crossing ceremonies, typically featuring King Neptune, are common in the navy and are also sometimes carried out for passengers' entertainment on civilian ocean liners and cruise ships. They are also performed in the merchant navy and aboard sail training ships. Wikipedia