News:

TESTEMONAIL:  Right and Discordianism allows room for personal interpretation. You have your theories and I have mine. Unlike Christianity, Discordia allows room for ideas and opinions, and mine is well-informed and based on ancient philosophy and theology, so, my neo-Discordian friends, open your minds to my interpretation and I will open my mind to yours. That's fair enough, right? Just claiming to be discordian should mean that your mind is open and willing to learn and share ideas. You guys are fucking bashing me and your laughing at my theologies and my friends know what's up and are laughing at you and honestly this is my last shot at putting a label on my belief structure and your making me lose all hope of ever finding a ideological group I can relate to because you don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about and everything I have said is based on the founding principals of real Discordianism. Expand your mind.

Main Menu

Some guy names his boat Titanic II, boat sinks first time he takes it out.

Started by Disco Pickle, June 08, 2011, 06:15:48 PM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages1
User actions

Disco Pickle

June 08, 2011, 06:15:48 PM
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2011/0608/Titanic-II-embarks-on-maiden-voyage-lives-up-to-its-name

QuoteMark Wilkinson's second-hand boat, which he rechristened as the Titanic II, behaved on its maiden voyage exactly as one might expect from a vessel with that name.

Mr. Wilkinson towed the 16-foot cabin cruiser, which he had just purchased for about $1,600, from his home in Birmingham, England, and set out on a fishing trip from West Bay harbor in Dorset on Saturday morning. On his way back, as the Titanic II made its way into the harbor and ... well, you can pretty much see this one coming.

According to the Dorset Echo, the coast guard officers and the harbormaster spotted Wilkinson un-ironically clinging to the bow of his rapidly sinking metaphor for hubris. They helped moor the ship, and Wilkinson climbed out of the water unhurt.

The harbormaster speculated that the breach in the Titanic II's fiberglass hull was caused when an old repair job came apart.

"It's all a bit embarrassing," Wilkinson told the Sun newspaper, "I'm fed up with people asking me if I hit an iceberg."

:lulz: :lulz:
"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter." --William Ralph Inge

"sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it." -- John Von Neumann

AFK

#1
June 08, 2011, 07:10:00 PM
But did he have enough lifeboats on board?

Were there any naked redheads on couches? 

These are the important details.   
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

LMNO

#2
June 08, 2011, 07:10:44 PM
Either way, he was a PIRATE.

Disco Pickle

#3
June 08, 2011, 07:25:12 PM
Buddy of mine was the first of our group of friends to go see the movie when it came out back in 97 and got a rumor started that Leonardo DiCaprio's frozen hand breaks off in Kate Winslet's at the end, before he sinks.  Naturally, we were suddenly excited to see the movie because that would just be awesome.

One by one we were inevitably disappointed, but kept the rumor going among the rest who hadn't yet gone to the theater and sat through the film.

It was funny every damn time one of us came back all pissed off.
"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter." --William Ralph Inge

"sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it." -- John Von Neumann

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#4
June 08, 2011, 08:01:58 PM
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Phox

#6
June 11, 2011, 04:26:11 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on June 08, 2011, 07:10:44 PM
Either way, he was a PIRATE.

Yeah, and that's what the dirty pirate gets for giving his boat a losing name. Starting way back at the beginning of time. Kronos named his brothers and sisters the Titans, and look what happened to them. The Titanic I? Beaten by an iceberg! A fucking iceberg! The Tennessee Titans? HAHAHAHA! And now this.
Print
Go Up Pages1
User actions