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    Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
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    Image of AllsWell AllsWell
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    The only people who like cruises are people who like food and chotskis.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/02/09

    @AllsWell: the senior set also likes the idea of a hotel that moves, so they don't have to unpack.
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    Image of Dickens_Ghost Dickens_Ghost
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    Just back from Orlando. Somali Pirates of the Carribean was the best ride at Disney. It had everything; M16s and RPGs, Johnny Depp, dismembered soccer moms.


    Awesome!

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    Image of BenderingTimeV2 BenderingTimeV2
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    I worked on a cruse ship for a couple months, and a coworker of mine went missing for a day. Some of us were convinced that she jumped ship after fighting with her boyfriend. Very scary. Fortunately, she turned up later in the day, and was locked up in the brig until the next port, where she was fired and sent home.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/02/09

    @BenderingTimeV2: they have brigs on cruise ships? that's kind of scary.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    Somali pirates did a haphazard job shoveling the walk this morning.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    Yarrrrgh!


    Ye lubbers not be needin' t' be fearin' we pirates. Wi' the Great Depression pullin inna port an' th' economy heavin' to, it not be worth our while to be goin' after ev'ry random cruise ship lookin' fer booty.


    We be learnin' new ways o' high finance t' be fleecin' th' fancy 'ristocrats outta thar ducats an' doubloons. The Madoff Gambit be worth more than ten ship o' th' line and does not be carryin' th' same risk o' shrapnel an stabbin' an' such.


    We be savin' are excursions only t' be sinkin' ninja ships now.


    I think that ninja scum be on the ropes, me hearties!

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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    The best travelogue for a cruise I ever read was reported by Gertrude Stein, who quoted: "The water doesn't go anywhere; it just goes up and down, like revolution."


    And then there is the very famous Hitchcock Presents episode in which David Niven is sort of behind on his gambling debts and hits on a wonderful scheme to back his heavy bet on the ship's pool about mileage covered per day. Teevee was great during the golden era.

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    Image of Crustaceans Rarely Get Past Me Crustaceans Rarely Get Past Me
    01/02/09

    @Tremonius: That HP episode is actually a setting of an amazing Roald Dahl short story.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    01/02/09

    @Crustaceans Rarely Get Past Me: I didn't know that! I'm looking it up right now. Roald Dahl?
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    Image of sakade sakade
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    Somali pirates invested (stolen) money in Non Society.
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    Image of FlipTurn FlipTurn
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    This is one thing I can cross off my worry list, since I would rather be torn apart by javelinas than ever set foot on a cruise ship.
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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    01/02/09

    @FlipTurn:


    Agreed! The main danger I would face is that I would lose my fucking mind, never to be regained.


    I actually have a friend who just went on a cruise, (we are very, very different) loved it, and every photo and tale she presented me from her trip confirmed that it is my (and probably your) worst nightmare.

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    Image of FlipTurn FlipTurn
    01/02/09

    @GirlyWhirl: Indeed, if worst nightmare is defined as floating around with a ship of fools, all of them strangers, and watching them cavort in bad clothes and consume vast quantities of terrible food from the buffet tables before going ashore in various ports of call to buy ugly and useless souvenirs. I may not sleep tonight just thinking about the horrors. I'd take my chances with the Somali pirates -- or the javelinas -- any day of the world.
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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    01/02/09

    @FlipTurn:


    I was told of hundreds of people so excited for cruise ship food in the dining hall that they would gather en masse and then bum rush when the doors opened like cattle.


    Men in speedos participating in a "Sexiest Legs" contest.


    The most enthralling challenge of the day being finding an empty lounge chair. And then spending the whole day there drinking and looking at legions of people strolling around in swimwear and pastel-y vacation gear.


    There is so much more... but I think I've told you enough for now. The human mind is fragile and I don't want to push you over the edge.

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/02/09

    @FlipTurn: well, jeez, when you put it that way...
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/02/09

    @GirlyWhirl: if you think about it, we're all pretty much touched, or we wouldn't be Gawking anyway, right? So spill it.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    Somali pirates think satin sheets are classy.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/02/09

    @Private Hangnail: you mean they're not?
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    01/02/09

    @Hydroceph: You're a Somali pirate, aren't you?
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/02/09

    @Private Hangnail: close, but wrong kind of pirate.


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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    01/02/09

    @Hydroceph: You're a pirate with a large body and disproportionately small mouth?
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/02/09

    @Private Hangnail: i know, freaky isn't it?
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    01/02/09

    @Hydroceph: @GirlyWhirl: It's all hype. We took a cruise to Mexico. No shuffleboard.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    Somali pirates took a crap in the Halloween pumpkin I've yet to remove from the front porch.
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    Somali pirates have taken Isaac from the Love Boat captive. If they don't get their ransom they're going to send back his index fingers so he'll never be able to point again.


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    Image of Dot Dot
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    Always did think Gopher was a damn serial killer.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/02/09

    @Dot: Worse, he was a GOP Congressman from Iowa.
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    Image of Dot Dot
    01/02/09

    @Hydroceph: Whatever. Same thing.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/02/09

    @Dot: especially if you're talking geopolitics.
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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    I met someone that worked for Carnival Cruises and she told me they had an itemized list of injuries and how much they were liable for.


    Some of them were scary like 'severed hand'. Who would have thought that considering that we used to travel by boat regularly?

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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    Somali pirates sold me 1000 shares of Lehman Brothers stock.
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    Image of loganmo loganmo
    01/02/09

    In reply to Cruise Ships Now Most Dangerous Place On Earth
    Was the Pirate one narrated by the guy from "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous?"
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    01/02/09

    @loganmo: Everyone sounds like Mike Myers to you, huh?
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