The humorous "Trunk Monkey" auto dealership commercials, which have gone viral on YouTube and other websites, helped make a serious point about flexible and adaptable surface combatants at the International Quality & Control Centre 2014 Surface Warships conference held at the Royal Navy Dockyard at Portsmouth, England, Jan. 30-31. Naval officers and industry experts gathered to share ideas and concepts for designing, building, manning and maintaining naval combatants today and into the future, but also to challenge assumptions and look at problems and challenges in new and different ways. So what does the "Trunk Monkey" signify in the context of warship design, construction and operations? In one of the series of TV spots for Suburban Auto Group in Oregon, a driver of a new car apparently cuts off a man driving a pickup. The man from the truck gets out and begins screaming at the driver of the car.
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