Thursday, January 22, 2009
Every American for himself.
Earlier this week, our new president inspired us with an exhortation to embrace some of the values that helped America survive tough times to become a beacon of hope and freedom: hard work, honesty, courage, fairness, tolerance, patriotism. But I'd like to remind you that there's another characteristic that has helped ensure our survival over the centuries: our willingness to throw elbows.
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You know it took hours for that ship to go down. I would have been fashioning my own vessel from objects on board. Luckily we had a project in arch. school where we had to design and build a boat with 2 days and $100. Then we had to race them. Of course you don't have 2 days on the Titanic but I would have made it work.
ReplyDeleteThat failing I WOULD have been on one of those life boats. I try to be polite, but there's no way this bitch would have been going down with the ship.
[ignoring of course the real life circumstance of me being brown and therefore having about a 0% chance of getting on one of the life boats]
I believe some researchers who are still exploring the wreckage of the Titanic announced that it went down even faster than previously though - as in less than half an hour.
ReplyDeleteWell Ayse you've ruined the entire movie for me! Good thing I hated it in the first place.
ReplyDeleteAlthough it wouldn't take me long to craft a frame out of pipe-fittings and then wrap it in a skin of some sort I can imagine that 30 minutes would not be enough time to even realise what was going on.