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This is where you lost me.

See post #9

Same here. The delay with the new system is a pain but it works.

I stand by my “sterling insights” observation.

Why is that?

Thank you for your detailed review. Clearly, you invested a great deal of time in this effort and I want to add my appreciation for devoting all of the time you did to create such thoughtful and interesting commentary. Wife and I are so very, very sorry for your heartbreaking loss. I hardly have the words to express our sympathy. You have identified two true legends both here on CC and on the ship. We too have experienced the genius of Mustafa. He seems to be everywhere at once. On our last cruise, he expertly solved what we believed was going to be an insurmountable problem. Not for Mustafa. We will be on the Seascape later this year and hope that he is still there. Of course, without @morpheusofthesea and his ongoing sterling insights we would all be the poorer. Thanks again!!!

MY PEOPLE!!!!😃

MSC 4th of July sale. What a joke! Unfortunately, aren't they all!

I couldn’t hold a candle. His quotes are cerebral. Mine are more redneck.

“I went to buy a suit. I told the salesman, 'I wanna see something cheap.' He told me to look in the mirror.” - Rodney Dangerfield

Quite the turn of a phrase. I can’t decide which half is funnier. Semi-mandatory or service charge.

Happy to hear the internet speed is good. I’ve long believed (pre-Starlink) that internet service was the Achilles heel for the Emerald.

Thank you for allowing us to join you and the Mrs. for another ride-along. Looking forward to more spirited and captivating interactions on your next journey. May the wind be at your back (and all of that), Sir!!

Clearly there is some homework remaining to be done. I’ll leave that to you. Suffice it to say, what you’ve described is NOT the way it works.

We received everything that was promised to us without question or challenge. Consequently we never had to pull the printed T&C out of our cruise file.

Splendid! Another thread filled with entertaining repartee. Can’t wait!!😃

Quite true. This is precisely why many refuse to participate in this shell game. Let the exchanges begin!!!

Yet as surely as night follows day, that’s what it will become.

Here, let me help you with the arithmetic. This means that 88.3% of the US population is NOT in CA. Hope this helps.

Isn’t this a lot like the tail wagging the dog? The numbers I’m finding show only 11.7% of the US population lives in CA. Not a very big tail, now is it?

Please provide a reliable source. Lacking this, it’s all smoke and mirrors.

Are we saying that if CA enacts a piece of local legislation that the other 49 states are somehow obligated to comply?

I’ve been a country music fan for, I’m quite sure, decades before you were born. What tries to pass itself off as “country music” today is nothing more than glam rock. As you correctly point out, there are THOUSANDS who have been pumped up on glam rock and appear to be enjoying it. Give Willie’s Roadhouse a listen and see what you’ve been missing. Again, I refer you to to “Murder on Music Row” Alas, real country is indeed dead, dead, dead.

Not so.

Or to dinner ON the ship.