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   masterskrain said, 3 months ago

   You gotta know that the shareholders just LOVE cartoons like this…NOT!

   “The SLUDGE Boat, Soon will be making another trip…”
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   mikefive said, 3 months ago

   Getting the stink out of that boat will be a trip.
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   Robert Landers said, 3 months ago

   @masterskrain

   Soon is a relative term here. I would not think it very possible that this particular ship will be sailing in anything less than a year at best. There will be major repairs needed for the engine room (perhaps repairs that should have been made prior to this ill fated voyage).
   And the clean up is going to have to be very, very extensive. Heck, for the sake of the PR alone it may be necessary for Carnival to write this particular ship off!!
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   MortyForTyrant said, 3 months ago

   If I’m not very much mistaken the Port-o-Pottys are lashed to the “Port” side of the ship :-)
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   mikefive said, 3 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   You certainly wouldn’t hang a Port-O-Potty on the starboard side.
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   Respectful Troll said, 3 months ago

   Near miss by an asteroid, over 1000 injured by a boulder sized rock entering the atmosphere, sequestration imminent, millions without jobs, Americans in harm’s way all over the planet in war zones and diplomatic outposts, N.Korea & Iran increasing as int’l threats, China & Japan launching planes at each other over who owns a section of water, new drug resistant illnesses found, Mexico is a criminal war zone right on the US border, and 53% of farmland in the USA still under drought conditions as the planting season begins…
   And a floating hotel/casino is the most important story in the world. As TK Ryan once wrote on his Tumbleweeds cartoon, “I’m too old to cry, I’m going to go get drunk.”
   Sadly,
   C.
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   mikefive said, 3 months ago

   @Mr. King

   To answer honestly: I heard/read years ago why but have forgotten and would like to be reminded.
   ♦
   To bite innocently on a dumb joke: No, why do they call them port and starboard?
   ♦
   Either way I’d like to know. :-)
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   olfart said, 3 months ago

   They were in the middle of the ocean, and they couldn’t find a place to take a dump. Those people would not survive an actual problem. City folks!
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   mikefive said, 3 months ago

   @Respectful Troll

   C, you need a change of paradigm. Rearrange your priorities and put things in proper precedence and list things that are of real concern. How can you possibly list such trivia as more important than The Ship of S*** or a politician taking a drink of water?
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    Fairportfan2 said, 3 months ago

    @Robert Landers

    " Heck, for the sake of the PR alone it may be necessary for Carnival to write this particular ship off!!"
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    Nah. They’ll just change its name.
    .
    Of course, that’s bad luck…
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    uh-oh said, 3 months ago

    Did they run out of toilet paper?
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    Fairportfan2 said, 3 months ago

    Okay. Originally, it was “larboard” and “starboard” – changed because they were confusingly-similar words.
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    Anyway, Norse/northern European ships were steered with an oar/rudder at the side – on the right side, hence “starboard”, meaning the steering side.
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    “Larboard”, being the other sidewas the side you would bring alongside (“lay along”) a dock or other mooring, to keep from fouling the rudder. (“Port”, similarly, refers to “coming to port”.)
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    Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

    Liberals believe they are experts at EVERYTHING.
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    Ketira shena Pretarasedrin said, 3 months ago

    @Respectful Troll

    Are you sure of that? NBC News covered all three, although the ship (since the company is facing lawsuits) came first.
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    Adrian Snare said, 3 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    What has politics to do with this Carnival situation ?
    Its a matter of quality communications and lack thereof, IMO.
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