You know, I have to say, ("Really?") that your guys idea of getting on the berg, is really excellent. I never thought of that, myself.
'Course I never thought much about the Titanic, except how How Stupid And Annoying Humans Are, and "Good Hunting, Iceburg!"
I think I would have thought of that, if I had been there. But getting anyone to listen to ideas is not my forte.
Drinking is. Going down is.
Anyway, I was "under the impression" that the berg that hit Titanic, or I mean that Titanic hit, was not "mountable." (Is that what you do to bergs? Mount them?)
Anyway, it wasn't very handy. Twas not a "handy" berg. It was a very uncooperative to humans, its clear superior, type berg.
I hate to tattle (what a strange word...), but this berg had attitude. "Tattle" is like the 40th word kids learn? And I have no idea what it means. Never even noticed it before. Finally, I begin to view things. "Open your eyes." "What?" "Open your eyes and ears."
Most bergs don't have stairways. Ever tried to climb a vertical ice face, without a rope, out of a boat?
Huh?
Oh.
Well ~ most people haven't. And couldn't.
This actual transfer of 1500 people from Titanic to berg or open boat to berg, I would like to see. Yuh-huh. Could be major humor, especially within the time they had.
Splish-splash. Add a little cheer to exposure.
What they should have done, was found another berg, without turning around looking really stupid and wasting time, and rammed this bergermeister dead center. Then they could have walked aboard, or climbed "down" ropes, to the berg, from the crinkled-but-held-fast skewered bow.
Headlines would have been "Titanic Mounts Berg." "Titanic: A Tummy Full Of Ice." "Canard Opens Berg Tours."
I think though, that Jack Ass Captain would not have adopted this berg "hunting" pro-gram.
He's the type who would have pictured himself answering questions. "What were you doing immediately after the berg collided with Titanic?"
"Uhh....loooking for another berg to ram?"
"I told them to go back, turn the ship around, and ram it again."
Humans are sooo stupid. Titanic is kind of a "pudding proof. " I re-christen her Atlantic Pudding.
OH! So if ships are "her", the berg would be a him. Hmmm. But I guess we still don't know who mounts who.
We should ask the Mounted Police.
You guys though, you guys get a star for being so smart as to think of this (probably impossible) brilliant idea. Of course, an idea and a Plan are different things. Let's hear Part Two. I put the "probably impossible" in there for two reasons ~ 1) I'm jealous; pretty jealous somebody had a good idea and I never came close to thinking of it; and 2) chances of getting anyone aboard an iceberg in that time frame, and with the practical PROBLEMS present, are probably nil. ("So start with the Captain.")
I think, however, if they could have found another berg lickety split and gotten stuck to it, it would have been a lot more fun to watch, especially if the bar section up in front was kept afloat. A lot more fun watching people-penguins than people popsicles. Major mirth.
Chances of getting anyone from a ship like Titanic to a berg in daylight in warm ocean in thirty minutes are iffy.
I like the idea so much I'd like to think of a way, though.
Other than that, it's a wow-er, this idea. I like it. "Yoohoo ~ We've got ice, we need glasses." "And the band."
Wonder why I've never heard it before? My GOODNESS ~ this is why I read RAMBI!!!
Do you think it's a "published" idea? Like thought-of, before?
You know, Nature and Destiny being what the are, I bet there was a guy on board, Marvin Skelp, who ran around the deck screaming "Ram an iceberg! Ram an iceberg!"
Whaddya bet? Fate is 'nuff cruel that some poor Paul or Ish or JFred type guy, perhaps too Marniered to form words ~ that person's final frustration in life was augmented in a dramatic way.
"'Shit a berg,' Mr Skelp?"
"Hit a berg. HIT a berg."
Ahh yes. WE should have made Titanic, The Movie. |
