You can add to that Titanic list that I STILL have a standing bet that more people SURVIVED the Titanic sinking ( badly mismanaged as it was) than the SUM TOTAL of ALL the people who have survived SIMILARLY SERIOUS commercial airplane disasters SINCE the Titanic!
( The requirement being that airplane has to have hit the ground with a THUD! Just skidding off the runway after it is safely on the ground or doing a miraculous dead stick sea plane landing in a river within easy distance of enough river craft to save the people doesn’t count as a SIMILARLY serious airplane disaster.)
I can’t understand why people are so worried about terrorism on airplanes. FAR, FAR more people have been killed by plain old airplane crashes than have EVER been killed by terrorists. If you get on an airplane, the odds of your being killed by a common airplane CRASH are a LOT higher than that you will get killed by terrorist action.
From the end of wooden railroad first class passenger cars sometime in the late 1920s to the bitter end of first class railroad passenger travel, the Pullman Company NEVER killed a passenger. The airlines can only DREAM of that kind of record!
LittleSister18 almost 14 years ago
I have a sinking feeling about this.
Tog almost 14 years ago
We had a boat. I wanted to call it Nautilus. My ex wife wanted to have the word Sea in the name. So we compromised and called it Nausea.
rshive almost 14 years ago
Not exactly a svelte ex-wife, I guess.
waynl almost 14 years ago
Or maybe she was cold as ice(berg).
GROG Premium Member almost 14 years ago
And the ex is the ice.
lewisbower almost 14 years ago
Should I name mine “The Berg”?
TexTech almost 14 years ago
Pamlicorat, if anyone flags your comment, then they just do not have any sense of humor at all. Very clever indeed. (And I know the feeling).
legaleagle48 almost 14 years ago
I’m thinking that it wasn’t exactly an amicable divorce.
Packratjohn Premium Member almost 14 years ago
On a related subject, the cutest name for a boat I ever saw was “Go Faster, Daddy”
BigChiefDesoto almost 14 years ago
You can add to that Titanic list that I STILL have a standing bet that more people SURVIVED the Titanic sinking ( badly mismanaged as it was) than the SUM TOTAL of ALL the people who have survived SIMILARLY SERIOUS commercial airplane disasters SINCE the Titanic!
( The requirement being that airplane has to have hit the ground with a THUD! Just skidding off the runway after it is safely on the ground or doing a miraculous dead stick sea plane landing in a river within easy distance of enough river craft to save the people doesn’t count as a SIMILARLY serious airplane disaster.)
I can’t understand why people are so worried about terrorism on airplanes. FAR, FAR more people have been killed by plain old airplane crashes than have EVER been killed by terrorists. If you get on an airplane, the odds of your being killed by a common airplane CRASH are a LOT higher than that you will get killed by terrorist action.
From the end of wooden railroad first class passenger cars sometime in the late 1920s to the bitter end of first class railroad passenger travel, the Pullman Company NEVER killed a passenger. The airlines can only DREAM of that kind of record!
Destiny23 almost 14 years ago
“The Fat Lady”? I never heard Celine called that before! ;o)