Very good points. It was simply humor shared at the wrong time with the wrong people. Today it is hard to know who truly has done the work and who hasn't. Often today, the word Doctor is used to intimidate and that is the sad part of it.

Curious, but don't the shipbuilders have a guild? I know the stone carvers do. Recognition for a job well done and no doubt well deserved.

Perhaps the Christian God summed it up in the story of Moses and the burning bush, by simply saying "I am."