trinacriabob

Delta Air Lines

"preservative"

safe sex

At about 11 pm on July 25, 1956, 50 years ago today,the Italian passenger liner Andrea Doria was sailing off of Nantucket, Mass. and due in to NY the following morning. She had essentially crossed the entire Atlantic. However, as the area was blanketed in fog and there was confusion aboard both ships who saw each other's lights up ahead, the Swedish liner Stockholm, with a bow designed to cut through ice, broadsided the Andrea Doria, cutting a gash below the water line that meant her end. About 50 people perished...all at the site of impact. Miraculously, unlike other more rapid sinkings, the Andrea Doria went under at 10:09 am the next day. Furthermore, the French liner Ile de France changed its course and used her lifeboats to shuttle over 1000 people from the sinking liner onto the safety of her decks. The story is chilling....I have read it so many times, since as a little kid, I got to make the same crossing a couple of times aboard Italian Line ships that followed her as the company maintained some ships in their fleet until 1977. The popularity of air travel meant the end of regularly scheduled transatlantic travel (except for the QE2- the Queen Elizabeth 2 which continues to sail today). I know of some of my parents' elderly friends who came to this country aboard earlier crossings of the Andrea Doria. Photos: Weirdly enough, the site showed that the survivors, most of whom lived in the East, would reunite once a year on Long Island. With today being the 50th anniversary, there is no mention of anything going on among them.

calories (P,go to bed, dammit)

About 2 weeks ago, this same realtor lady from my Memorial Day vacation e-mailed me about 20 listings with photos. Just a scattershot of sorts. Again, I don't like the style of some, the neighborhoods of others, yada yada. I've done better driving around and calling on listings I liked. About 3 days she called to confirm that I had gotten them and wanted to set up a time in light of when I would be "in town" again. I told her I will come in for 4 to 5 days and need to drive around, get a feel and more importantly, try to interview. I told her that I wasn't coming into town to buy a house (left out the part: within a window of time that suits your schedule so you can raise your 2 year old son and tend to your doctor husband) and that such an investment requires more thought on my part. Hopefully, I won't hear from her again. You know, I have a couple of alibi names and phone numbers just for pushy salespeople that I typically use. Why I didn't on that day is beyond me.

German

Happy birthday...to the guy with the great signature...it looks a little different than it did on the pre-crash C&G board.

Eagles (for my buddy, Ocnblu and other PA C&Gers)

DITTO. DITTO. DITTO. I love that car and primarily that year...because of the engine. However, I thought the thread was about vices. If that's also allowed, then my guilty pleasure/vice is: TRAVEL Period.

Dodgers

Oh, yeah, aaaantoine, every damn day. :AH-HA_wink: I've been on it a few times from my uncle's in Teaneck to catch a plane at JFK. I couldn't believe that there were stripped vehicles on the side of the road. You really never see that out West, even in freeways through crummy parts of LA, so that was an eye-opener. At which exit is the billboard located, BTW? Jerome Ave? That b!tch must have been really angry. I wonder how much she WEIGHS that he's looking elsewhere? I'm surprised Jerry Springer hasn't gotten a hold of this.

baseball

bowl

snake oil salesman

New Orleans

marmalade

K-Y

RD 486

$ 25,800 CDN = $ 22,832 USD, at this time 32,000 kms = 19,875 miles Looks to be in line with what DN90 posts right above. Do you want this car...have to feed to V8 under the hood. Also, what kind of a warranty will you get with it?

UBC could be Uniform Building Code or University of British Columbia

polar ice caps

otolaryngologist

ditto

Razor: Those applications you speak of are an aluminum head on an iron block, right? That's my concern - different materials, different coefficient of expansion. I'm not too concerned about all-aluminum, actually. There are now plenty of Cadillacs on the road that are 15+ years old that have all-aluminum engines with steel piston sleeves.