Holy cow! These were the exact words spoken by all the passengers of the Costa Concordia the day before it sank! It's even the same port! They set sail from Civitavecchia, and three hours later, while everyone is enjoying a nice candlelit dinner, BAM, they run right into a reef! It was an absolute real life disaster. At least 30 people died. I certainly hope that Karen Moy isn't going to trivialize this tragedy by incorporating it into a Mary Worth plot... but if she does, I hope she includes some horribly-out-of-context Shakespeare quotes.
I want to see this cruise end with a shipwreck like Gilligan's Island. Playing Mary Ann for a while would do Dawn good. Wilbur is a natural for the role of the Skipper.
ReplyDelete@birdie, you beat me to it: A three hour cruise, a three hour cruise....
ReplyDeleteNow that I think of it, Wilbur might be more of a Thurston Howell III type.
ReplyDeleteIf that ship hits a reef, I'm gone forever from this column.
ReplyDeleteOr is that "three hour tour?"
ReplyDeleteBets on the ship's name? I'm thinking Bosta Bonbordia. Or Il Titanico.
ReplyDelete--Beagle Vet
Wilbur, please. Just shove her overboard with a kickboard and be done with it. Let her wash up on shore and be someone else's problem. Now can we get back to Mary sharing her wisdom with the world?
ReplyDeleteWell, once again I am in the same place as the Westons. Doesn't appear to be the same hotel, though. Now that my internet access is somewhat better, I'd like to say a few things about the Dave/David comparison.
ReplyDeleteDavid is destined to become King of Israel. Dave is destined to become third vice president of the Santa Royale Rotary Club.
David's best friend was Jonathan. Dave's best friend is his mom.
David has a bag of rocks slung over his shoulder. David is dumber than a bag of rocks.
Hey Wilbur, you aleady tried having Dawn stare at the sea on a beach with no improvement. Now you are going to pour more money down a rat hole to have Dawn stare at the sea from a boat? And you expect different results why?
ReplyDeletePerfect plan! Get her good and seasick. THEN she'll appreciate how good she had it before.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, the superb entertainment. Cheesy magic shows and corny almost-good-enough-for-off-off-Broadway musicals. That is sure to snap Dawn out of her fugue. Will this cruise be classified as a) Titanic b)Love Boat or c) Costa Condordia ??
ReplyDeleteOfficially praying now for a big reef... a very jagged one. Hopefully, there will only be two casualties, both named Weston.
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I really enjoy cruising. Sandi Ego is right on about the cheesy entertainment, but you can avoid that. What's hard to avoid, sometimes, are annoying fellow passengers. The Weston pair may just fall into that category. (Before the advent of "freestyle" dining on cruise ships, we were once seated at a table for ten. There was a mother/middle aged son pair who were so surpassingly weird that they were referred to as Norman Bates and his mom.)
ReplyDeleteLife is brutal.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the ship's doctor will step forward and get Dawn the medical treatment she so obviously needs.
ReplyDeleteKnowing Moy's plots, however, the ship's doctor will probably be a handsome Italian who sweeps Dawn off her feet. "Hel-lo, Signor Doctore!"
Oh yeah. One way or another this plot will be resolved by Dawn meeting some hot, young Italian stud. You can feel it in your bones.
ReplyDeleteEven though Wilbur's wearing vertical stripes, he seems to be inflating like a beach ball. Too many of those flavorful vegetables, apparently. His (ugh) chest hair is migrating north, too.
ReplyDelete@MissScarlet - I agree that's how this has to end - our lives are brutal enough with all of Dawn's moping - but how is she going to handle the hot romance with Wilbur the Chaperone accompanying them everywhere? Ugh.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the ships entertainment will include some outer worldly music from Rogers and Hammerstein.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of cruises, Chester here is currently a swell production of ANYTHING GOES here in NYC. Unlike Dawns summer trip/cruise/waste of money, it is highly enjoyable.
I think it's great that everyone is hoping for romance to bloom for me, but in this strip, it just doesn't seem to be happening. Life is ... well, you know.
ReplyDeleteOops, sorry. I mistyped my name. Life is brutal.
ReplyDeleteYou know the ship is going to be named Ship"
ReplyDeleteLong time lurker here, first post. I have to say, I had high hopes for this storyline, visions of Mary gleefully Wendy-ing away and fixing problems right and left while Dawn got a much deserved Roman Holiday-esque tour of Italy. Needless to say, my hopes are being dashed daily.
ReplyDeleteWhat prompted me to speak up was this: has Wilbur actually received any favors from Giorgio? I don't think a sightseeing suggestion over a five minute phone call is something Wilbur would have had to call in a favor from an old friend for, and I can't see that Wilbur has gotten anything else from Giorgio....
(also, I think my first robot word was a picture of some palm trees in front of a factory...)