The free drinks is a standard on cruise ships when there is engine trouble. There is usually one or two ships a year that get towed in and you hear about the bar being thrown open.

And every drink was on the rocks.

captain immediately orders free drinks for everyone on board. Now that's leadership

At least he didn't give them the cold shoulder.

I'm guessing he only did it because he was already down at the bar.

CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

Win.

Come on, Admins. Enough with the damn repeats. This was posted 96 years ago.

DandamanFL: "The free drinks is a standard on cruise ships when there is engine trouble."

Interesting. Is that some sort of maritime tradition, or something? Seems like a unique (and welcome) idea...

CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

(o)(o) ---> (-)(-)


/golf clap

Passengers seen disembarking with knives and tequila screaming "LUGE, LUGE!" never seen again

ksobby = Win.

So that's where Captain Hazelwood wound up

COOTYSRATSEMEN: Is that some sort of maritime tradition, or something? Seems like a unique (and welcome) idea

It's just a good idea. I'd be freaking the fark out of my ship were going down.

But...But....Global warming!!!

Of course, since this ship wasn't necessarily going down, I have no real answer for you.

CruiserTwelve: "And every drink was on the rocks."

Game over. You win!

Wow - this made Fark. Our former governor is on this ship, so this was on our news here in Indianapolis tonight.

overlord: At least he didn't give them the cold shoulder.

I, for one, do not find any amusement in our pun-absuing overlord.

g3o: CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

(o)(o) ---> (-)(-)



...and your nipples got hard?

only 300 passengers? If this was a full sized cruise ship, that collision would definitely have had enough force to tear up more than just a lifeboat and railing.

Approves...

huntercr
g3o: CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

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...and your nipples got hard?

Wouldn't that be (+)(+)?

tzankoff: I, for one, do not find any amusement in our pun-absuing overlord.

Your lack of amusement is punishment enough.

Problem glacier?
JUSTIT!

puffy999: Good point.

Wonder if they have a chart for situations like this.

"Engine's out: Open bar."

"Rudder's jammed: Free food."

"Breached hull: Have a joint!"

A ship carrying the proud name Fram can't be stopped by a little ice.

For those interested, the first ship to be named Fram was that of Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian polar explorer with balls of solid chrome-vanadium steel. He designed the ship to survive being caught in the arctic ice, filled it up with 6 years worth of supplies and sailed North, where the Fram was caught up by the ice as planned and carried by the icepack's progression for well over a year, while the crew fought boredom more than the elements.

As if that wasn't impressive enough, Fram also acted as the expedition ship for a certain Roald Amundsen whose exploits took place quite a bit further South.

Free drinks - sounds about right.

floating point error = free drinks

TFA: On Nov. 24 another cruise vessel, the MS Explorer hit an iceberg and sank hours later.

It must've performed an illegal operation?

"MS Fram"

Isn't that the sister ship of the MS Frap?

I went on my first cruise not too long ago. It was to the Bahamas and there was not a single glacier I was concerned with, in fact we coincidentally had a lot of sun to worry about... something about skin cancer and sun burn. I was just glad there were no glaciers around for us to crash into.

They do that on planes too, on long haul flights when the video breaks down.

It's better to offer them something desirable and relatively cheap, than having to deal with a line of angry tourists each demanding a different form of compensations...

"On Nov. 24 another cruise vessel, the MS Explorer hit an iceberg and sank hours later."

I didn't know Gates had a cruise ship...

Aulus: Now correct me if I'm wrong, but if it had turned out to be more serious, like the cruise liner that, earlier this month, hit an iceberg and farking sank, neccesitating all to hustle into life boats, it's really not in the best interest of all for the passengers to be drunk off their asses, right?

It's even worse to have a couple hundred panicked passengers rush the life boats and I'm assuming people were only given a couple drinks each.

Aulus:TFA: "The captain and crew checked the ship and calmed nervous passengers, and after that "there were free drinks on the house," he said."


"Now correct me if I'm wrong, but if it had turned out to be more serious, like the cruise liner that, earlier this month, hit an iceberg and farking sank, neccesitating all to hustle into life boats, it's really not in the best interest of all for the passengers to be drunk off their asses, right?

More places in the lifeboats for the crew, so everybody's happy.

CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

That wasn't even funny. The ship hit an iceberg, not rocks.

What? No Kate Winslet pics yet?

You dirty Farkers really ARE slipping tonight.

Imagine the pressure of being on the repair crew when something like that happens.

And I think MY job is high stress-- but this repair crew has a whole ship of lives at stake, and immediately.

I submitted this under a better....fark it!

MS Explorer hit an iceberg and sank hours later

BWAHAHAHAHA! Was that iceberg S.S. Firefox by any chance?

Aulus: Now correct me if I'm wrong, but if it had turned out to be more serious, like the cruise liner that, earlier this month, hit an iceberg and farking sank, neccesitating all to hustle into life boats, it's really not in the best interest of all for the passengers to be drunk off their asses, right?

It's like outrunning a bear. You can't outrun a bear but if you can outrun the people you are with, you win. In this case, fighting your way into a life boat is a lot easier if half of the other passengers are pissed drunk (or passed out in the bar).

Aulus: From TFA: The captain and crew checked the ship and calmed nervous passengers, and after that "there were free drinks on the house," he said.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but if it had turned out to be more serious, like the cruise liner that, earlier this month, hit an iceberg and farking sank, neccesitating all to hustle into life boats, it's really not in the best interest of all for the passengers to be drunk off their asses, right?

landlubber
/just sayin'
//and you will never, ever, catch me going on any farking cruise

Awesome headline, Subby.

And indeed, CruiserTwelve wins the thread. Here's your banana.

CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

Came here to post that.

Now, you must die.

blazemongr: CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

That wasn't even funny. The ship hit an iceberg, not rocks.

FAIL.

MattyBlast: blazemongr: CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

That wasn't even funny. The ship hit an iceberg, not rocks.

FAIL.

FACEPALM

huntercr: g3o: CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

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...and your nipples got hard?




blazemongr: CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

That wasn't even funny. The ship hit an iceberg, not rocks.

You realize that the phrase, "n the rocks" means with ice, don'cha know?