April 17, 2005

A 3-martini lunch

The trauma of a 7-story wave hitting your cruise ship would indeed be alleviated by an open bar.

This story is why I will probably never go on a cruise. Nope. Ever see Poseidon Adventure? Uh-huh. Yup. No cruise for me.

Posted by sheila
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I guess none of those dweeboids ever sailed the North Atlantic. It's interesting that the Caribbean cruise ships aren't designed to take any real seas. It makes me wonder about the new Queen Mary. The QEII is built for sea and I don't think she would have had any real problems. The old United States could -outrun- waves like that.

You won't get me on a cruise ship either - but for perhaps the nearly exact opposite reason.

Posted by: CW at April 17, 2005 11:08 PM

I just don't ever EVER want to see a wave that's more than one-story high. Swear to God. I have nightmares about it ... all. the. time. I wonder why. Past life? No idea. But there's something so unbelievably horrifying to me about a massive wall of water coming at me. It's on the same level as an "s", for me, in terms of phobias.

Posted by: red at April 17, 2005 11:14 PM

I will keep my Perfect Storm factoid to myself, then. ;-)

Posted by: Ken Hall at April 18, 2005 11:51 AM

Ken - I read that book! Like most people with phobias, I am somehow inexorably drawn to that which terrifies me the most.

What's your factoid??

Posted by: red at April 18, 2005 06:04 PM

Read the book? Hell, both my parents live in Gloucester now: there's no getting way from it.

Posted by: Dave J at April 20, 2005 11:15 PM