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Re: For those who truly love the blues...
Ohhhhh is was. Koko Taylor's band played so loud on their warmup tune, I couldn't even stay there on the afterdeck. I got tired of holding my fingers in my ears. Same way with Lattimore and his plinky piano. Take earplugs - I never thought about that.
The one I went on was early on in 1996. The KCBS rented a Disney Big Red Boat ship for the week, so it was their rules on board (which meant "no rules.") Everybody was smoking in the stage areas, and there was no dress code whatsoever.
The one bad thing was even without a dress code ( they asked no wet bathing suits in the dining area) there was still formal meals at a precise time and they assigned you a table and a chair to sit at with a tent card. It's my understanding they've gotten away from that since then, with buffet meals you can plow into anytime and sit where and with whom you want.
And it made me decide I would never in my live go on a "real" cruise. At one of the ports we docked beside a Carnival ship. The Big Red Boat looked like one of the Carnival ship's lifeboats in a photo I took from down the pier. After dark there were a whole bunch of us hangin onto the rail on the main deck gawking through the Carnival ship's portholes with binoculars, watching all the fancies having champaign and cavier in their tuxedos and dinner dresses with pinky fingers sticking out just so on their champaign glasses. ....No, thanks. That sure doesn't look appealing to me.
One of the guys on our boat hollered so loud and so many times that a few of the Carnival's fancies came over to the window to see what the disturbance was. When he had their attention, he turned his butt around and mooned them from right across the pier. At eye level, boat-to-boat. A huge round of applause from all us on deck. He won a special "Full Moon Over St. Croix" award for that on the last day of the cruise.
It was a blast in spite of the fact that I was with a totally un-fun wife at the time (she became Ex No. 2). Even SHE couldn't make it not be fun, because it sure as hell was.
Originally posted by Ron Ward
The one I went on was early on in 1996. The KCBS rented a Disney Big Red Boat ship for the week, so it was their rules on board (which meant "no rules.") Everybody was smoking in the stage areas, and there was no dress code whatsoever.
The one bad thing was even without a dress code ( they asked no wet bathing suits in the dining area) there was still formal meals at a precise time and they assigned you a table and a chair to sit at with a tent card. It's my understanding they've gotten away from that since then, with buffet meals you can plow into anytime and sit where and with whom you want.
And it made me decide I would never in my live go on a "real" cruise. At one of the ports we docked beside a Carnival ship. The Big Red Boat looked like one of the Carnival ship's lifeboats in a photo I took from down the pier. After dark there were a whole bunch of us hangin onto the rail on the main deck gawking through the Carnival ship's portholes with binoculars, watching all the fancies having champaign and cavier in their tuxedos and dinner dresses with pinky fingers sticking out just so on their champaign glasses. ....No, thanks. That sure doesn't look appealing to me.
One of the guys on our boat hollered so loud and so many times that a few of the Carnival's fancies came over to the window to see what the disturbance was. When he had their attention, he turned his butt around and mooned them from right across the pier. At eye level, boat-to-boat. A huge round of applause from all us on deck. He won a special "Full Moon Over St. Croix" award for that on the last day of the cruise.
It was a blast in spite of the fact that I was with a totally un-fun wife at the time (she became Ex No. 2). Even SHE couldn't make it not be fun, because it sure as hell was.
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