August 20, 2005 - L.A. to Port Canaveral - Eastbound Repo Cruise - The SHIP OF FOOLS Part 2

[mark & sandra]

A man and his wife were driving their Recreational Vehicle across Florida to DisneyWorld and were nearing a town spelled Kissimmee.

They noted the strange spelling and tried to figure how to pronounce it - KISS-a-me; kis-A-me; kis-a-ME

They grew more perplexed as they drove into the town. Since they were hungry, they pulled into a place to get something to eat. At the counter, the man said to the waitress: "My wife and I can't seem to be able tofigure out how to pronounce this place.

Will you tell me where we are and say it very slowly so that I can understand."

The waitress looked at him and said, "Buuurrrgerrr Kiiiinnnng."

Mark

 

[mark & sandra]

Originally posted by DenverVal

Duuuuude, not only can I read a map, I make them for a living!

Just for you DV:

Q: Why did the innocent map go to jail?
A: It was framed by the neatline.

Q: What projection do lost sheep use to find their way home?
A: The Lamb-ert Conic Conformal projection.

Q: Why don't cartography librarians wear high heels?
A: They prefer map flats.

Q: What is the difference between a tub full of freezing water and a depth contour?
A: One is an icy bath and the other is an isobath.

Q: How do maps comb their hair?
A: They use a geographic brush.

Q: Why is the Jenks classification system like an orthopedic surgeon?
A: They both deal with natural breaks.

Q: Why didn't the marginalia go to the dance?
A: It didn't have a date.

Q: Why was the globe rated "R"?
A: Because of its gore. (In earlier times, a map that was pasted on the globe consisted of a number of tapered strips, called gores.)

Q: What is the difference between a black tie dinner for prisoners and a projection showing true shape?
A: One is a con formal and the other is conformal.

Q: What kind of contours can see in the dark?
A: Illuminated contours

 

[DenverVal]

OMG! Where do you find this stuff??! I'm posting this one in my cube!

 

[Grumbo]

I was wondering if any of you would be interested in doing an exchange, Denver mint for Philadelphia mint. Any takers?

I have some Peppermints as well as some Imperial mints I'd be willing to trade. I'm not familiar with your Denver or Philly mints but is one filled with Coors, and the other got cheese steak on it?

Cheers,
Grumbo

 

[Scratch42]

I can't believe I finally caught up reading! Not that I can remember everything!LOL

Would love to be put on the Early Dining Hook Up!

Arlene ~ saw the post regarding the Pin Meet but I can't say for sure.

Mark ~ I know all the nasty things said while I was gone were said by you!LOL

Melinda ~ Stay healthy! You have to keep your wits about you with Mark around!

Grumbo ~ Enjoy the concert! I still have my album that she signed for me!

OT ~ DD and I went to see the Incredibles! Really enjoyed it! Definately two thumbs up!

Everybody Else ~

Scratch

 

[Bmwdsny]

Early Dining Seating Linked-Reservation List

Bmwdsny (6)
Mississaugamom (5)
Carolsherman (3)
Izzinmac/Gassmandy (5)
Piglet 33 (3)
DeniseW/Jazzman (4)
Winnyis (4)
Mark & Sandra (6)
Denine (3)
Ivanova (21) or (23)
Tigger24/DCLDreamer (10)
Sandygirl (3)
Buckaroo's Dad (3)
Scratch42 (2)

Originally posted by Scratch42
Melinda ~ Stay healthy! You have to keep your wits about you with Mark around!

DD and I went to see the Incredibles! Really enjoyed it! Definately two thumbs up!

Mark is who he keeps me going every day!!

My kids def. want to see that movie...Perhaps they will show it on the Wonder cruise in a few weeks??

I added you to the dining list!

originally by DenverVal I was wondering if any of you would be interested in doing an exchange, Denver mint for Philadelphia mint. Any takers?

Val, What states do you need? I may have Philadelphia mints, i hafta look....(I only lived about an hour or 2 north of Phila...)
Since i have 3 states quarters portfolio,(one for me, one for DD and one for DS) I need Texas and Iowa yet...I only have one of them...

 

[mark & sandra]

Originally posted by DenverVal


OMG! Where do you find this stuff??! I'm posting this one in my cube!

Here's a link to a few more for you:
http://geography.about.com/library/misc/blhumor.htm

 

[gassmandy]

Melinda--
My dad put me down as early dining---and hopefully we'll end up getting it. We are waitlisted for early dining--and our TA linked my ressie to my dad's, who has early --but as of now we still have late dinner. I have no idea what I'll do if we don't end up getting bumped to first--my daughter won't make it till 8!! And even if I feed her before-hand and then just take her w/ us to late dinner--she'll probably be ready for bed!! Kepp me on the count for early--and as we get closer to sail date--I'll let you know where we stand!!!!
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND, EVERYONE!!!
Since I live around the corner now from "The World"--I'll be there tomorrow!! Don't be jealous!

 

[mark & sandra]

Scratch, been saving this for your return-

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO

1. You live in the center of the universe
2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump
3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election
4. There's no such thing as an Ontario Seperatist
5. Your grandparents sold booze to the States during Prohibition
6. Lots of tourists come to Toronto because they mistakenly
believe it's a cool city
7. The only province with hard-core American-style crime
8. MuchMusic's Speaker's Corner - rant and rave on national TV
for a dollar
9. Baseball fans park on your front lawn and pee on the side of
your house
10. Mike Harris: basically a sober Ralph Klein

************A Separatist Statue************

A man finds an old bronze statue of a rat in an antique store.

The shopkeeper says: "It's $10 for the statue, but $100 for the story that goes with it."

The man skips the story, hands over $10, and starts to walk home with the statue under his arm.

On the way, hundreds of rats start to follow along behind him.

The man runs to the nearest bridge and throws the statue in the water.

To his amazement all the rats follow the statue and leap off the bridge to their deaths.

When the man returns to the store the owner says: "You've come back for the story of the statue."

The man says: "No, I was wondering if you might have a bronze statue of a Separatist."

 

[mark & sandra]

You might be canadian if.....
-You can repeat the entire Molson's Canadian 'The Rant'.
-You know all the words to "If I had a million dollars" by The Barenaked Ladies, including the inter-stanza banter between Steven and Ed.
-You dismiss all beers under 6% as "for children and the elderly"
-You know that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) don't always look like that
-You watch MuchMusic constantly, in the hopes of occasional fleeting glimpses of The Tragically Hip
-You think Peter Mansbridge is sexy. -You think Lloyd Robertson is sexy. -You think Peter Kent is sexy.
-You think Matt Damon is so-so -You can do the hand actions to Sharon, Lois and Bram's "Skin-a-marinki-dinki-do".
-You know why "killerwhaletank" is funny
-You had a crush on Joey Jeremiah from Degrassi Junior High.
-You know that a "Premier" isn't a baby born a few months early
-You think -10 C is mild weather
-You substitute beer for water when cooking.
-You carry empty beer cans from your camping trips home with you in your backpack so you can recycle them when you reach civilization.
-You know that the 'Extra Creamy' in Kraft Extra Creamy Dinner is 'add more milk.'
-You know what "Canuba" is. You think it's pretty damn funny
-You die a little inside if you can't get your Tim's double-double every morning.
-You know the difference between real snow and "television" snow -- the white stuff that passes for snow on tv and in films. You scream, "For Christsake! That should be sticking to their pants!" and "Lookit, it's not melting! That's *so* not snow!" when watching 'Winter' scenes
-You've actually said, "Stay where yer at, 'till I gets where yer to"
-Can Complete the phrase: "The good old ____ game is the best ____ you can ____."
-You find it difficult to explain "milk in a bag" to non-Canadians, and even more difficult to describe the "snippy-thing" used on bag corners. (Bonus points if your collected snippy-things are stuck to your fridge.)
-You're pretty sure you can see Alex Trebek smirking when Jeopardy contestants get the "Canada questions" wrong. Even if you weren't sure of the answer yourself, you consider yourself a hundred times smarter than the idiots who always guess, "What is .. uh, Toronto?"
-Your Saturday nights in the Atlantic provinces include eating beans and brown bread as you watch Hockey Night in Canada
-Your local zoo is mainly flamingoes, giraffes and sad elephants freezing their asses off against a backdrop of pine trees, grey skies, and precambrian shield formations
-You know that a pike is a type of fish, not part of a highway
-You drive on a highway, not a freeway -You have Canadian Tire money in your kitchen drawers
-You cried when you heard that "Mr Dress Up" died recently.
-You get excited whenever an American television show mentions -You live in a house with no front step, but the door is one meter up from the ground
-You perk up when you hear the theme song from "Hockey Night in Canada."
-"Eh?" is a very important part of your vocabulary, and is more polite than, "Huh?"
-You've ever had your tongue frozen to something.
-You know that in Canada the mosquitoes have landing lights
-You have more miles on your snow blower than your car
-You know that Canadian Tire on any Saturday is busier than the toy stores before Christmas.
-You've taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard.
-Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled in with snow
-You can play road hockey on skates
-You have memorized the Heritage Foundation's Heritage Moments, including your favourites, "Burnt Toast!", "You know I canna read a word...",
-You are moved to tears by those Bell Canada phone commercials they show around Remembrance Day, where the grandson calls his granddad from Dieppe. You understand the manipulative nature of the advertisement, but continue to be moved, nonetheless
-You spit angrily when Americans say "ruff" instead of the correct "roof".

YOU MIGHT BE A LIL TOO CANADIAN IF.....
-You read rather than scanned this list

 

[Bmwdsny]

Ok Amanda, but i will keep you on the list anyway.....I really hope you get early dining!!

Mark, too much time on your hands?????



Ok, listen up folks!! er, actually, for MEN!!!

Grumbo, Jazzman, Mark, Izzinmac, any other MEN...

Start sweating!!

My DH is coming to town!!

He told me this morning that it is about High time that he will start to get to know you people!! After all, he is cruising for 2 weeks with you!! I warned him about some of you...he said, he will be able to handle you guys, no problem!!!
He will start posting soon, hopefully today...I told him he is NOT using my screenname but to use his own....It is DVCMember4
and i hope he remembered his password!!!
He probablry won't be able to post as many of you do, since he is a very very busy man, unklike many of you!!!esp. GRUMBO!!

I am nice enough to even let you know..... Just warning you !!

 

[Grumbo]

Melinda:
If you go into the profile at the bottom of each post you can see the activity of each poster.

You'll see I have averaged 1.86 posts per day. Mark a mere 1.46, and Bob a meagre .52 posts per day.
You on the other hand are averaging 3.74 posts per day (More than double mine) and Scratch is 4.44 per day.

Now fair is fair but I don't think casting aspersions on the men of this thread is proper or warranted. Your hubby is welcome and we are hopeful that his computer use may help you to beat your obvious DIS addiction and deter your spiralling post average.

We look forward to male bonding with him and being able to rat you out, I mean, discuss the upcoming cruise and interesting tid bits we've learned from you

God you gotta love it when you're right for once

Cheers,
Grumbo

 

[Bmwdsny]

Originally posted by Grumbo
Melinda:
If you go into the profile at the bottom of each post you can see the activity of each poster.

You'll see I have averaged 1.86 posts per day. Mark a mere 1.46, and Bob a meagre .52 posts per day.
You on the other hand are averaging 3.74 posts per day (More than double mine) and Scratch is 4.44 per day.

Cheers,
Grumbo

Yeah, but the BIG question is that how many time you LURK per day???? Unfortuntely, it does not show that!!!! I bet it doubles my average!!!

 

[Jazzman]

Yeah, but the BIG question is that how many time you LURK per day???? Unfortuntely, it does not show that!!!! I bet it doubles my average!!!

Gee, I dunno Melinda. You answered his post within 8 minutes; that's got to be some kind of record.

-Jazz (0.08 posts per day)

 

[Grumbo]

You're right it doesn't show that.
But then again your predispsition to worry whether or not others post or lurk is probably deep seated in the knowledge that you are guilty of what you are accusing others of.

Keep working on your post average I'm sure you can make it to 5.00 per day by Christmas no sweat.

Cheers,
Grumbo

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Originally posted by DonnaDavid

Andrew Derek, while trying to see if Emily's new DIS name works(it doesn't - now I'm really going to get PMS), I read that Alice is asking about DL. Do you have a park map of DL and if not, would you like one? For that matter, would anyone else like one as I have serveral? For some reason, I've hoarded about 5 and can't bring myself to throw them away. Must be some PMS thing, right Grumbo?

Thank you we do have a Birnbaums and I went to DL CL about 10-14 years ago, Alice was after recomendations for the rides, as we are going at a busy time and may have to limit what we do.

 

[Scratch42]

I AM CANADIAN! AND PROUD OF IT!



It's a Canadians "Rite of Passage" to get their tongue stuck on a frozen gate post!LOL

Scratch

 

[piglet33]

Originally posted by DenverVal
I have a question for you east coast cruisers: do any of you collect state quarters? It's next to impossible to collect Philadelphia mint quarters in Denver, and I was wondering if any of you would be interested in doing an exchange, Denver mint for Philadelphia mint. Any takers?

I collect the state quarters. I'll go through them and let you know which ones I have that are from Philly. I know I have a few from Denver already.

Reneé

 

[piglet33]

Ok, I just went through all my quarters. Pain in the neck having to take them all out of the map, but here's what I have:

Philly:

Alabama
Arkansas
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
New Hampshire
New York
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia

Denver:

Delaware
New Jersey
Ohio

Let me know if you want to trade any of these. I'm getting Iowa soon from my Aunt, but I don't know where that one is from yet.

Reneé

 

[mark & sandra]

Originally posted by piglet33
I'm getting Iowa soon from my Aunt, but I don't know where that one is from yet.

Reneé

Uh, Reneé- It's from your aunt!!!...Mark