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Subject: Re: "Poseidon" movie-style disaster not likely Posted on: Thu, 18 May 2006 00:58:13 PDT

On 5/17/06 7:51 PM Odysseus wrote:
> In article , yourDROPTHISvacation@comcast.net
> says...
>
>> "John Sisker" wrote in
>> news:Yqlag.1116$921.208@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net:
>>
>>
>>> To Whom It May Concern:
>>>
>>> We came across this information in the trades, in the form of a press
>>> release, and thought it would be of interest to this newsgroup as
>>> well.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Could huge cruise ships such as Royal Caribbean's new freedom of the
>>> eas -- almost as tall as the Empire State Building -- in real life
>>> get turned upside down by a freak wave as portrayed in the just
>>> released film "Poseidon?"
>>>
>>>
>> John, I know you claim no responsibility for the stuff you cut and
>> paste, but really "nearly as tall as the Empire State Building"? isn't
>> this just a bit too much?
>>
>>
> I think that what he means is that the length of the ship is almost as
> tall as the height of the Empire State Building. I don't that fact
> is releveant since the ship will never be stood on its stern.
>
>
That would be another movie. Perhaps a Japanese Todd-AO revival of
"Godzirrrah meets the Giant FemBots", musical interlude provided by the
Mothera chicks. ;-)

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