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Judi
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New York City.....been in and out of those piers enough to recognize it, although it's not as bad as it was in 1942!
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maw
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Quack Quack another month gone -boy it went by fast--6 weeks from today we will be boarding the Sea in SF. Guess I can hold off on suitcase until after the 4th. Planning a picnic here on night of 3rd with family. Will be a wild week end here at lake. Big craft show in town, fireworks and lots of organizations with money making feeds. I am sure the neighbors will have lots of company. Just dread when they shoot off their fireworks which always seem to end up in our yard and they do it so late. Have a safe weekedn all. Quack Quack
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gram
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:wave :wave :wave
Good moring mamma duck, ducks & dit. Good think I am a duck with all the rain we have been having. Maw, I can understand how you feel about those fireworks. Our neighbors dothe same thing. But worries me some years the ground has been so dry that I am afrain of fire. Also, the noise really frightens the animals. So please everyone if you have an outside dog bring it in the house on the 4th. The animal shelters get more dogs who break their chains and run away because they are frightened of the fire works. Everyone have a quacking good day.
QUACK! QUACK! QUACK!
Good moring mamma duck, ducks & dit. Good think I am a duck with all the rain we have been having. Maw, I can understand how you feel about those fireworks. Our neighbors dothe same thing. But worries me some years the ground has been so dry that I am afrain of fire. Also, the noise really frightens the animals. So please everyone if you have an outside dog bring it in the house on the 4th. The animal shelters get more dogs who break their chains and run away because they are frightened of the fire works. Everyone have a quacking good day.
QUACK! QUACK! QUACK!
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ShipMaven
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Calgon1 said:All right .... Day 42
1942 - What and where?
Judi nailed NYC Piers, of course. To elaborate, that's the famous Normandie over on her side at Pier 88 after the tragic fire on board. She capsized from the weight of the water poured on her.
As a very very young child, I have a recollection of seeing her on her side before they started removing her.
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ShipMaven
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QUACK QUACK DDD's.
Fortunately, I only hear July 4th fireworks in the distance, and that doesn't bother Pucci. At most he may sit up at the first volley, then settles in next to me as usual.
Fortunately, I only hear July 4th fireworks in the distance, and that doesn't bother Pucci. At most he may sit up at the first volley, then settles in next to me as usual.
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Calgon1
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The Royal Princess and Queen Quack are absolutely correct. The Normandie (aka: The Lafayette) suferred a fire during a refit and, rather than closing off the various compartments and suffocating the fire, the NYFD just kept dumping more and more water onto and into her. She became catastrophically top-heavy and over she went.
For more informatin of this once beautiful lady, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Normandie
For more informatin of this once beautiful lady, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Normandie
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ShipMaven
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The Normandie and RMS Queen Mary had a great rivalry during their glory years in the late 1930's before the outbreak of WWII. The Blue Riband went back and forth between them, ulimately won by the Mary...until the SS United States came along in 1952 and snatched the prize away effortlessly.
Arguably, the Normandie was the most luxurious ship in the world, and probably nothing since has ever rivalled her, even my beloved RMS Queen Elizabeth and RMS Queen Mary moored in Long Beach.
Arguably, the Normandie was the most luxurious ship in the world, and probably nothing since has ever rivalled her, even my beloved RMS Queen Elizabeth and RMS Queen Mary moored in Long Beach.
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suer182
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[size=x-small]Are you guys going someplace next month???????[/size]
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maw
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Suer we had better be--I am reaqdy to quack up with lots of other quackers. Its your fault.
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Barbishere
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Mama Duck, I finally got to see the old Queen Mary when I visited friends in Long Beach last year and took the tour. It was interesting to see it converted into a stationary hotel. I think what impressed me the most was the huge engine room! QUACK!!!
I sent you a couple e-mails a week ago or more and never got an answer back from you. Can you check your e-mails and see if you got them? This is the first time I've been at the school long enough this summer to get into Cruise-Addicts. It takes forever to load at home then crashes after one or two pages, so I never get caught up with reading old posts. At least Glo-Bug has kept me up on the "portant stuff, like all the goodies you've planned for us duckies! Thanks. It would be great to be able to read about them through e-mail and I'm sure there are other ducks, ducklings, or DIT's not able to log on to the roll calls as well.
I sent you a couple e-mails a week ago or more and never got an answer back from you. Can you check your e-mails and see if you got them? This is the first time I've been at the school long enough this summer to get into Cruise-Addicts. It takes forever to load at home then crashes after one or two pages, so I never get caught up with reading old posts. At least Glo-Bug has kept me up on the "portant stuff, like all the goodies you've planned for us duckies! Thanks. It would be great to be able to read about them through e-mail and I'm sure there are other ducks, ducklings, or DIT's not able to log on to the roll calls as well.
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ShipMaven
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Barb - we've been without power in my area of town since noon and I can't get into my e-mail to check. HOPEFULLY, power will be restored tonight. I'm at a friend's house now.
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J.E. M.
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Fireworks are legal here in SC and the Firework stores have been realy busy this week.
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Calgon1
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Well, it's Day 41 and what's left of my DIT brain has finally snapped. For those who remember, on Day 67 I posted a photo of Habitat 67, a fairly modernistic structure. So I figured that I'd look for other strange architecture in the hopes that I'd find something relating to "41". Unfortunately, I didn't find anything specifically relating to 41; however I did find over a large number of very strange buildings ...
Got to thinking .... (very dangerous thing for me to do...).
Considering that Cruise @ddicts, in general, and the members of the Duck Crew, in particular, are very well traveled ... I'll bet someone can identify these structures. Some were really easy .... the Bird Cage in Bejing, the Air Force Academy Chapel, the Burj al Arab in Dubai, etc. But, some were really way out there and may give some challenge to the C@s.
There are enough for two buildings every day; so, here are today's buildings .... What are their names and where are they located?
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Got to thinking .... (very dangerous thing for me to do...).
Considering that Cruise @ddicts, in general, and the members of the Duck Crew, in particular, are very well traveled ... I'll bet someone can identify these structures. Some were really easy .... the Bird Cage in Bejing, the Air Force Academy Chapel, the Burj al Arab in Dubai, etc. But, some were really way out there and may give some challenge to the C@s.
There are enough for two buildings every day; so, here are today's buildings .... What are their names and where are they located?
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Calgon1
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Hold on. I'm reposting ......
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suer182
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Geez and here I thought that pic #2 was the new transparent deck on Chicago's Sears Tower
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Calgon1
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OK. Sorry for the glitch. Don't kow what happened. Here we go:
Please identify the building and where it is.....
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Please identify the building and where it is.....
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Judi
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I know the first one is Kansas City, but I"m still looking for the second one!
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Tobyn
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Isn't the second one the Atlantis Resort in Bermuda?
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Judi
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I didn't know there was an Atlantis resort on Bermuda....see that, you learn something new every day.
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Tobyn
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Sorry, didn't look at the architecture close enough . . . Its the Atlantis resort in DUBAI! ! ! !
