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Cruise will trace Titanic's route on 100th anniversary. To complete the experience, officials boast that the engineering and safety rules of modern ships mean there's no chance whatsoever of an iceberg puncturing the hull
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phlegmmo
2011-12-29 12:42:13 AM
Will there be a chance to try my hand at portraits? Because I might go for that.
Benevolent Misanthrope
2011-12-29 01:33:11 AM
Here's hoping everything works every bit as well as last time.
Therion
2011-12-29 01:35:07 AM
Two friends already have tickets for this cruise. I've admonished them to bring lockpicks and to always know the fastest route to a lifeboat.
phlegmmo
2011-12-29 01:36:29 AM
Therion:
Two friends already have tickets for this cruise. I've admonished them to bring lockpicks and to always know the fastest route to a lifeboat.
Don't forget the whistles.
Minarets
2011-12-29 01:40:33 AM
phlegmmo
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Therion:
Two friends already have tickets for this cruise. I've admonished them to bring lockpicks and to always know the fastest route to a lifeboat.
Don't forget the whistles.
Also, knowing the arrangement of the deck chairs ahead of time might be useful.
Benevolent Misanthrope
2011-12-29 01:43:04 AM
Minarets
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phlegmmo: Therion:
Two friends already have tickets for this cruise. I've admonished them to bring lockpicks and to always know the fastest route to a lifeboat.
Don't forget the whistles.
Also, knowing the arrangement of the deck chairs ahead of time might be useful.
I'm thinking a private inflatable life raft.
That said, I have nothing against your friends. I thought TOM Cruise was retracing the original route. I withdraw my previous good wishes, if innocent bystanders are involved.
browneye
2011-12-29 01:45:49 AM
I wouldn't ride on that ship if they paid me.
FloydA
2011-12-29 02:44:08 AM
Benevolent Misanthrope
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I thought TOM Cruise was retracing the original route.
The psychic mind power of an OT VI means there's no chance of an iceberg puncturing the ego of Tom Cruise when he crosses the Atlantic on the 100th anniversary of the "unsinkable" ship's ill-fated maiden voyage.
But we can hope.
AbbeySomeone
2011-12-29 05:25:50 AM
Why do I have the theme from Gilligan's Island in my head?
inkblot
2011-12-29 05:47:46 AM
Perhaps, but more than 2,000 Titanic enthusiasts are willing to take the risk - paying up to $12,000 each - to book a berth on the Balmoral and a second ship, both of which will follow the route of the Titanic to where it struck an iceberg.
Some of the passengers are having costumes made to recreate the look of the original on-board guests. The first-class passengers will dine the way the doomed ones did - on oysters, roast squab and sauteed chicken Lyonnaise. There have also been requests from musicians to be part of string-quartet that continued to play as the ship began to sink.
There's something creepy about turning the deaths of 1,500 people into a floating theme park.
AbbeySomeone
2011-12-29 06:07:21 AM
inkblot
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Perhaps, but more than 2,000 Titanic enthusiasts are willing to take the risk - paying up to $12,000 each - to book a berth on the Balmoral and a second ship, both of which will follow the route of the Titanic to where it struck an iceberg.
Some of the passengers are having costumes made to recreate the look of the original on-board guests. The first-class passengers will dine the way the doomed ones did - on oysters, roast squab and sauteed chicken Lyonnaise. There have also been requests from musicians to be part of string-quartet that continued to play as the ship began to sink.
There's something creepy about turning the deaths of 1,500 people into a floating theme park.
That is eerie.
BattleFrenchie28
2011-12-29 10:40:00 AM
inkblot
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Perhaps, but more than 2,000 Titanic enthusiasts are willing to take the risk - paying up to $12,000 each - to book a berth on the Balmoral and a second ship, both of which will follow the route of the Titanic to where it struck an iceberg.
Some of the passengers are having costumes made to recreate the look of the original on-board guests. The first-class passengers will dine the way the doomed ones did - on oysters, roast squab and sauteed chicken Lyonnaise. There have also been requests from musicians to be part of string-quartet that continued to play as the ship began to sink.
There's something creepy about turning the deaths of 1,500 people into a floating theme park.
Well, when you put it like
that
.
macross87
2011-12-29 10:42:49 AM
Titanic II? Oh wait, it sank too
Boxcutta
2011-12-29 10:43:52 AM
Let me know when Tom Cruise will race Titanic's route.
/that man is always running somewhere
2CountyFairs
2011-12-29 10:46:26 AM
The whole route? I ask because the last 13,000 ft. from surface to ocean floor was kind of rough.
velvet_fog
2011-12-29 10:49:21 AM
phlegmmo
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Will there be a chance to try my hand at portraits? Because
I might go for that.
[4.bp.blogspot.com image 526x394]
gunga galunga
2011-12-29 10:50:37 AM
AbbeySomeone
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inkblot: Perhaps, but more than 2,000 Titanic enthusiasts are willing to take the risk - paying up to $12,000 each - to book a berth on the Balmoral and a second ship, both of which will follow the route of the Titanic to where it struck an iceberg.
Some of the passengers are having costumes made to recreate the look of the original on-board guests. The first-class passengers will dine the way the doomed ones did - on oysters, roast squab and sauteed chicken Lyonnaise. There have also been requests from musicians to be part of string-quartet that continued to play as the ship began to sink.
There's something creepy about turning the deaths of 1,500 people into a floating theme park.
That is eerie.
So, what, on September 11, 2101 are they going to have plane trips that recreate the flight from Logan International Airport to lower Manhattan?
monoski
2011-12-29 10:51:07 AM
Aren't the icebergs all gone now?
gunga galunga
2011-12-29 10:54:11 AM
Since you know that every idiot lovey-dovey couple on that cruise are going to want to stand at the ship's bow pretending to fly, I wonder how much the ship is going to charge them for it.
/extra to have your picture taken
Grapple
2011-12-29 10:54:42 AM
What could possibly go wrong!? This seems like a great idea.
MBrady
2011-12-29 10:55:57 AM
Will there be some shiatty "love" song that will play continuously over the intercom 24 hours/day that will drive some people crazy enough to take over the bridge and steer the ship into an iceberg to stop that farking song from playing?
Will there be some engineer guy who designed all of the electronic systems on the ship who got some disease that made him sick enough that the ship owners fired him, so he gets revenge by booking himself as a passenger and brings enough electronics to take over the ship? Then he tries to steer the ship into an oil tanker?
Hyperbolic Hyperbole
2011-12-29 10:59:08 AM
inflatable Titanic bounce house is not impressed.
gunga galunga
2011-12-29 11:05:41 AM
MBrady
:
Will there be some shiatty "love" song that will play continuously over the intercom 24 hours/day that will drive some people crazy enough to take over the bridge and steer the ship into an iceberg to stop that farking song from playing?
Will there be some engineer guy who designed all of the electronic systems on the ship who got some disease that made him sick enough that the ship owners fired him, so he gets revenge by booking himself as a passenger and brings enough electronics to take over the ship? Then he tries to steer the ship into an oil tanker?
If they hold a party with strippers only to have the caterers turn out to be mercenaries under the leadership of an ex-CIA agent looking to hijack the ship's arsenal of Tomahawk missles, I'm on board.
Rann Xerox
2011-12-29 11:07:36 AM
If an iceberg hits Cruise's ship, I hope it has a beard on it.
BilldaCat10
2011-12-29 11:11:22 AM
inkblot
:
Perhaps, but more than 2,000 Titanic enthusiasts are willing to take the risk - paying up to $12,000 each - to book a berth on the Balmoral and a second ship, both of which will follow the route of the Titanic to where it struck an iceberg.
Some of the passengers are having costumes made to recreate the look of the original on-board guests. The first-class passengers will dine the way the doomed ones did - on oysters, roast squab and sauteed chicken Lyonnaise. There have also been requests from musicians to be part of string-quartet that continued to play as the ship began to sink.
There's something creepy about turning the deaths of 1,500 people into a floating theme park.
Do people get to volunteer to be the rabble on board locked below? How does that work?
groppet
2011-12-29 11:12:18 AM
BattleFrenchie28
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inkblot: Perhaps, but more than 2,000 Titanic enthusiasts are willing to take the risk - paying up to $12,000 each - to book a berth on the Balmoral and a second ship, both of which will follow the route of the Titanic to where it struck an iceberg.
Some of the passengers are having costumes made to recreate the look of the original on-board guests. The first-class passengers will dine the way the doomed ones did - on oysters, roast squab and sauteed chicken Lyonnaise. There have also been requests from musicians to be part of string-quartet that continued to play as the ship began to sink.
There's something creepy about turning the deaths of 1,500 people into a floating theme park.
Well, when you put it like that.
Yeah it would be one thing to retrace the route and toss a wreth of at the sinking spot. But they are turining it into a big party. Maybe the ghost ship will show up in NYC and Cheech will say "Better late than never"
nmiguy
2011-12-29 11:13:40 AM
This is so exciting!
OtherLittleGuy
2011-12-29 11:25:53 AM
Wait, the Red Sox have a new ballpark?
texdent
2011-12-29 11:29:17 AM
Hopefully this idiot
isn't the captain
s1ugg0
2011-12-29 11:44:27 AM
I feel about this the same way I feel about blaspheme or working on electrical power.
I'm pretty sure nothing bad will happen if I do it but I try to avoid situations where if I end up in pain people can say "Well what else did you think was going to happen?"
devildog123
2011-12-29 11:44:56 AM
Tempting fate can be fairly stupid.
"This is as idiotic as standing on top of a mountain, during a lightning storm, wearing copper armor, screaming "ALL GODS ARE BASTARDS!""
/Maybe these people can hop aboard the Lusitania II in a few years, and cruise around Ireland.
//I volunteer to be the German sub skipper.
Bermuda59
2011-12-29 11:53:08 AM
Does this mean that in Sept 2101,D-Bags will be getting on jets to follow the flight paths of the 9-11 flights?
That coward David Lopan
2011-12-29 11:54:45 AM
Cruise will trace Titanic's route on 100th anniversary
I thought he was busy plugging MI4?
dragonchild
2011-12-29 11:55:47 AM
Grapple
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What could possibly go wrong!? This seems like a great idea.
Well, doesn't the Titanic's route kinda stop in the middle of the Atlantic? Or are we talking about the route it didn't take, in which case Cruise might as well cruise to Hawai'i because the Titanic didn't go there, either?
Devolving_Spud
2011-12-29 11:58:09 AM
I see nothing wrong with this, as long as the ship they're using is practically unsinkable.
gunga galunga
2011-12-29 11:58:52 AM
s1ugg0
:
I feel about this the same way I feel about
blaspheme
or working on electrical power.
I'm pretty sure nothing bad will happen if I do it but I try to avoid situations where if I end up in pain people can say "Well what else did you think was going to happen?"
I used to be a sweet-talking member of the Baptist church.
Now I'm one God damn Jesus H Christ on a pogo stick blasphemous sonuvabiatch.
I find that my "shiat happens" ratio is still the same.
gunga galunga
2011-12-29 12:06:29 PM
Devolving_Spud
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I see nothing wrong with this, as long as the ship they're using is practically unsinkable.
And they have half as many lifeboats as passengers.
HotIgneous Intruder
2011-12-29 12:07:44 PM
They're taking two ships on the cruise.
Cowards!
KnowEyeInnTeem
2011-12-29 12:11:53 PM
2CountyFairs
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The whole route? I ask because the last 13,000 ft. from surface to ocean floor was kind of rough.
I had a similar thought. Perhaps they can have a submarine ride that slowly drifts down to the sea floor.
KnowEyeInnTeem
2011-12-29 12:13:01 PM
gunga galunga
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Devolving_Spud: I see nothing wrong with this, as long as the ship they're using is practically unsinkable.
And they have half as many lifeboats as passengers.
Well, I think 1,000 lifeboats would be more than enough.
Representative of the unwashed masses
2011-12-29 12:15:53 PM
gunga galunga
:
MBrady: Will there be some shiatty "love" song that will play continuously over the intercom 24 hours/day that will drive some people crazy enough to take over the bridge and steer the ship into an iceberg to stop that farking song from playing?
Will there be some engineer guy who designed all of the electronic systems on the ship who got some disease that made him sick enough that the ship owners fired him, so he gets revenge by booking himself as a passenger and brings enough electronics to take over the ship? Then he tries to steer the ship into an oil tanker?
If they hold a party with strippers only to have the caterers turn out to be mercenaries under the leadership of an ex-CIA agent looking to hijack the ship's arsenal of Tomahawk missles, I'm on board.
It's cool, we have this guy as cook.
Representative of the unwashed masses
2011-12-29 12:17:54 PM
gunga galunga
:
Devolving_Spud: I see nothing wrong with this, as long as the ship they're using is practically unsinkable.
And they have half as many lifeboats as passengers.
She is constructed of steel and wood, I assure you Mr. Gunga Galunga that she can and will sink.
gunga galunga
2011-12-29 12:20:04 PM
KnowEyeInnTeem
:
gunga galunga: Devolving_Spud: I see nothing wrong with this, as long as the ship they're using is practically unsinkable.
And they have half as many lifeboats as passengers.
Well, I think 1,000 lifeboats would be more than enough.
Yeah, I should have said "lifeboat capacity". They probably do make them so that they hold more than one passenger.
cscanlon7
2011-12-29 12:28:58 PM
/I know I know
//going to hell..
BattleFrenchie28
2011-12-29 12:44:04 PM
Hyperbolic Hyperbole
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[image.made-in-china.com image 448x336]
inflatable Titanic bounce house is not impressed.
I'm 22 and I want that.
madcan34
2011-12-29 01:01:19 PM
texdent
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Hopefully this idiot [images.wikia.com image 360x550] isn't the captain
They would have been fine if they had just used 1001 hulls
Grapple
2011-12-29 01:07:40 PM
cscanlon7
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[3.bp.blogspot.com image 603x672]
/I know I know
//going to hell..
Awesome!
/will share my bon-bons with you on the trip.
Doomed
2011-12-29 01:13:34 PM
The first-class passengers will dine the way the doomed ones did...
I like that. Doomed ones. Doooooomed ones.
/doom
Fano
2011-12-29 01:13:49 PM
inkblot
:
Perhaps, but more than 2,000 Titanic enthusiasts are willing to take the risk - paying up to $12,000 each - to book a berth on the Balmoral and a second ship, both of which will follow the route of the Titanic to where it struck an iceberg.
Some of the passengers are having costumes made to recreate the look of the original on-board guests. The first-class passengers will dine the way the doomed ones did - on oysters, roast squab and sauteed chicken Lyonnaise. There have also been requests from musicians to be part of string-quartet that continued to play as the ship began to sink.
There's something creepy about turning the deaths of 1,500 people into a floating theme park.
Don't get me started on the Holy Land tour
Fano
2011-12-29 01:14:55 PM
s1ugg0
:
I feel about this the same way I feel about blaspheme or working on electrical power.
I'm pretty sure nothing bad will happen if I do it but I try to avoid situations where if I end up in pain people can say "Well what else did you think was going to happen?"
Is ready to give you a slap
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