Sometimes, size does matter.
But if you’re going on a cruise ship for a week or so to get away from it all and relax, do you really wanna pick the world’s largest cruise ship?
Apparently, the brain trust at Royal Caribbean International thinks so. They have just launched the world’s largest cruiser, and it’s a monster.
How big? Try five times the size of the Titanic. It’s 40 percent larger than the next biggest cruise ship.
It can carry 6,300 passengers and has a crew of 2,100. The danged thing is 20 stories high!
And it has seven “neighborhoods,” a golf course and an ice-skating rink.
In other words, it’s like a lot of cities. Which I believe is what people go on cruise ships to get away from.
They named it Oasis of the Seas. I would have chosen Colossus of the Seas.
And I will not choose to book passage on it.
If I want to spend a lot of money and eat strange foods and be surrounded by tons of people, I’ll go to a pro football game like everybody else.
And I won’t get seasick.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Cruisin' for a bruisin'
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The ship was built in Finland, which demonstrates that Finland does not allow labor unions. Once upon a time the skilled craftsmen of this nation could have built this ship, built it better and quicker, but that was before labor unions became organized crime.
"Sailing, sailing! Over the bounding main!"
Avast, me hardy lads and lassies! On this vessel,ye'll never be less than two yardarms from a bar. Nor will ye see the light o'day from your 16 hammocks wide bottom of this vessel quarters!
"Here's to swimmin with bowlegged wimmen!
Ye swim between they legs!
Ye swim between they legs!"
Some days I'm just a gold mine of olden sea chanties!
Tennyson, very readable even to moderns, wrote a poem about crossing the bar. Cheers!
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