Pete Jackson Posted April 2, 2009 #26 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Dry docks in Alma Ata? Very dry, I'm sure. I thought we did away with dry docks after prohibition.:D Very nice mixture of the real with the surreal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ine Posted April 2, 2009 #27 Share Posted April 2, 2009 1 April..............kikker in je bil ! Sorry cannot translate this, but it is the dutch rhyme for April 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English_in_Spain Posted April 2, 2009 #28 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Shame on you Copper. You posted this on the 2nd April !!! I read the first couple of sentences before I realised what it was all about. I was getting so upset. My darling 'S' class ships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Cruises Posted April 2, 2009 #29 Share Posted April 2, 2009 BAD BOY COPPER ... you had us all quite upset!!! What a sense of humor?????!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruising-along Posted April 2, 2009 #30 Share Posted April 2, 2009 You had me too, up through the 1st paragraph -- but I had to read "Potsdam" 4 times, and it just got better and better after that. :D Shame, shame Copper! :D:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kryos Posted April 2, 2009 #31 Share Posted April 2, 2009 April Fools??? Potsdam? Has to be. Blue skies ... --rita Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herb Posted April 2, 2009 #32 Share Posted April 2, 2009 after reading the first few lines which stated that Veendam was being sold I froze and thought "well that's just great, just when we wanted to sail to Bermuda on that ship!" :mad: ..... and then I thought..... "wait a minute, when was this post started"?? :rolleyes: .... thank God it was April 1st :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m steve Posted April 2, 2009 #33 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Bzerkastan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRUZBUDS Posted April 2, 2009 #34 Share Posted April 2, 2009 I didn't start catching on until HAL was getting the Elation and the Imagination ... I knew that couldn't be true :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ore-ee-gun Posted April 2, 2009 #35 Share Posted April 2, 2009 The Pots and Pans names gave it away for me, and then when I saw the phone number.... Too funny! :D:D:D:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomc Posted April 2, 2009 #36 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Oh, I was thinking that the two ships HAL was getting from Costa & Princess would be renamed "Hooverdam" and "Beaverdam." The first one would sell only Mead in the bar; the second would be leased to Olivia travel agency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir PMP Posted April 2, 2009 #37 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Den Haag is a koue k*k stad. :D Maar die Hagenezen kunnen goed kezen!;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikefang Posted April 2, 2009 #38 Share Posted April 2, 2009 John, you are starting to worry me! No Code 7 for you! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Copper10-8 Posted April 2, 2009 Author #39 Share Posted April 2, 2009 John, you are starting to worry me! No Code 7 for you!Mike I thought you were going to say "No soup for you";) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Copper10-8 Posted April 2, 2009 Author #40 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Maar die Hagenezen kunnen goed kezen!;) Deep inside you wished you were an Amsterdammer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikefang Posted April 2, 2009 #41 Share Posted April 2, 2009 John, I sense a large number of barking dog calls in your future! What was that back door number to your dispatch center again? :p Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Copper10-8 Posted April 2, 2009 Author #42 Share Posted April 2, 2009 [quote name='mikefang']john, i sense a large number of barking dog calls in your future! What was that back door number to your dispatch center again? :p mike[/quote] [font=comic sans ms][size=3][color=navy]51-50[/color][/size][/font];) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobpatj Posted April 2, 2009 #43 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Bad, bad, very bad! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elycelynne Posted April 2, 2009 #44 Share Posted April 2, 2009 "the second would be leased to Olivia travel agency" Ooohhh, shame on you, tomc!!! ;) I'm just wondering if they mainly cook with Dutch Ovens on the Potsdam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boytjie Posted April 2, 2009 #45 Share Posted April 2, 2009 [quote name='elycelynne'] I'm just wondering if they mainly cook with Dutch Ovens on the Potsdam?[/quote] Potsdam is in Germany. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serendipity1499 Posted April 2, 2009 #46 Share Posted April 2, 2009 [SIZE=3]Oh my Lord John...I've been had twice in two days..:confused:[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]First by Rich with his Alaskan & Hawaiian $$$ and now you..;)[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]I was so sad..:o.Even downloaded your post for DH & our Friends before I finished reading it..[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]John you are just as bad as "Bad Bad Leroy Brown, baddest man in the whole damn town." [/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]No more Wang Wang's for you!!:eek:[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Betty[/SIZE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elycelynne Posted April 2, 2009 #47 Share Posted April 2, 2009 [quote name='Boytjie']Potsdam is in Germany. ;)[/QUOTE] So then where's Pansdam (Potsdam's sister ship)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Copper10-8 Posted April 2, 2009 Author #48 Share Posted April 2, 2009 [quote name='elycelynne']So then where's Pansdam (Potsdam's sister ship)?[/quote] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Pansdam doesn't exist, never has;). Boytie's is correct, however, in that Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy] and is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg metropolitan area[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]. It is situated on the River Havel[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy], southwest of the center of Berlin[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]The ss Potsdam[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy] was an ocean liner [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]built in 1900 by the Blohm + Voss [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]shipyard in Hamburg, Germany[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy] for the Holland America Line f[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]or their transatlantic[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy] service from Rotterdam to New York[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]. She was the largest ship operated by HAL at the time.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]In 1915 HAL sold the ship to the newly-founded Swedish-American Line[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy] who renamed her SS Stockholm for their transatlantic service from Gothenburg[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy] to New York. In 1929 she was again sold to Norwegian[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy] interests and converted to the whale factory ship[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy] ss Solglimt. Following the German invasion of Norway[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy] in 1940, the Solglimt was captured by the German Kriegsmarine (Navy)[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy], transferred to the First German Whaling Company[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy] and renamed ss Sonderburg.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]The Sondenburg was scuttled by German troops in 1944 to block entrance to the harbor of Cherbourg[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy] in France. In 1946 she was partially demolished to clear the shipway, with the final remains towed to the United Kingdom [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]in 1947 to be scrapped.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevNeal Posted April 2, 2009 #49 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Laughed loudly ... which was something I needed yesterday and today. Thank you! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elycelynne Posted April 2, 2009 #50 Share Posted April 2, 2009 [quote name='Copper10-8'][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Pansdam doesn't exist, never has;). Boytie's is correct, however, in that Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy] and is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg metropolitan area[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]. Wow, do I feel stupid now. I assumed that Potsdam and Pansdam (pots and pans) were both fictional; hence, my comment about the Dutch oven. I must say, though (not that everyone already doesn't know this), you're certainly a font of knowledge! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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