# It All About The Love, People **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 1, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257 "2003-12-01T13:49:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/41 "2003-12-02T22:22:07Z")
Yeah, right, like I’d venture into the wilds of Jawja!! Pfffft. Don’t flatter yourself, **swampy**! 😛 I kid! I kid! You know that! You’re the only Doper I’ve dated, after all! And I must say I’m impressed that you saw thru my ruse, unless **Rue** said something on his postcard… hmmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/42 "2003-12-03T12:32:14Z")
Now look what you did, **swampy** - you made me kill this thread - it was at the bottom of page 2!!! Well, I shall thwart you. THWART, I say! **Rue** , I think your idea for flavored M&Ms is a good one. You should send it to them. I’m not a big fan of raspberry, but I think chocolate cherry would be yummy! Drool-worthy, even! ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/43 "2003-12-03T12:45:46Z")
Isn’t a thwart some part of a boat? Like one of the braces in the middle section? Does that mean you’re gonna take **Swampy** on a cruise? Man! That would be great, a cruise. It’s like a hotel you can’t leave and all the cheesecake you can ingest. What’s not to like about a cruise? And now (if you believe the commercials) they have climbing walls and stuff. I dn’t think the had climbing walls on the Love Boat. But after all that cheesecake, is a climbing wall a good idea? Really? But I’ll meet you all on the Lido Deck and we can boogy-oogy-oogy the night away! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/44 "2003-12-03T12:54:22Z")
A cruise? Whee! What fun! We can dress like pirates and take over the ship! And everybody we think is dressed ugly we can make walk the plank! And I can make all the burly men feed me beer and cookies! (I can always work that in somehow. I am so clever!) **FCM** all I did was go hmmmm… she asked for my address and then a postcard with a Pink (Lavender really) Fokker from **Rue** shows up in my mailbox. It didn’t take but five or six hours for me to figure that out! HAH! Saw right through that little ploy I did! 😃 -swampbear ( **ARRRRRRRRRRR!** ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/45 "2003-12-03T14:16:17Z")
Wouldn’t a cruise be the best DopeFest? A whole mess of us trapped on a big boat with lots of food and shows and swimming pools and cruise directors and stuff! If I ever hit a big lottery, I’ll do that - I’ll charter a big boat and everyone can come and cruise. No plank-walking, tho. That’s just so over-done… ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/46 "2003-12-03T14:31:14Z")
No plank-walking? \ Can we at least make people scrub the decks then? Can we keel haul? How bout other piratey type stuff? The Dopeboat! Now that’d be a hoot! ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/47 "2003-12-03T14:35:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Swampbear \* > **And everybody we think is dressed ugly we can make walk the plank.** > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*No plank-walking, tho. That’s just so over-done… \*\* Can we at least keel-haul the fashion victims? Not that any _Dopers_ dress badly, of course, but maybe we could kidnap some people from the dock? Kidnapping is a very pirate-y thing to do. Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum…! ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/48 "2003-12-03T14:36:53Z")
Apparently, **Swampy** and I are thinking along the same lines. Well, great minds and all that! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/49 "2003-12-03T14:55:15Z")
Keel-hauling is just nasty! Ick. You people are vicious to the fashion challenged. And yes, I take it personally. I’m not exactly known for my style. I think we should just mock people for their unrepentant ignorance, and pelt them with glurge till they beg for mercy. And we don’t let them have any cheesecake. That’ll show 'em the error of their ways! ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/50 "2003-12-03T18:33:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kallessa \* > **Bumbazine** , you don’t need to angle for a kiss from me. All you have to do is get your wife’s permission and I’ll smooch you a good one! 😉 \*\* Yeah. That’ll happen. :dubious: I don’t think pirateing, or pirateage, was everything people make it out to be. Do you have any idea what your shirt would look like after carrying a parrot around on your shoulder all day? And the _smell! phew!_ And dancing on a dead man’s chest? That’s all well and good if he’s freshly killed, but when he starts to bloat up, you don’t want to go there! I much prefer **FCM** ’s style of pirateage, especially the cheesecake part. _sings_ _I want to sing and dance, I want to sing and dance, I want to be a pirate in the Pirates of Penzance. Wear me silver buckled slippers and me tight, shiney pants, I want to sing and dance!_ [sub](Ray Stevens’ The Pirate Song)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/51 "2003-12-03T18:33:51Z")
No cheesecake?! You are a cruel, cruel woman, **FairyChatMom**. ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/52 "2003-12-03T18:35:25Z")
_Dude!_ First post on the second page! Whoohoo!! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/53 "2003-12-03T18:37:05Z")
I’m not cruel - I just have a strong sense of justice. Plus I really, really like cheesecake and I’m loathe to share it. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/54 "2003-12-03T18:45:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > \*\*Oh, and thanks for the advice on the Old Peculiar. It may well have been **garius** that put me on to the stuff. . . \*\* Mmmmm. . . Old Peculiar. My favorite little-known-and-hard-to-get beer. Plenty fun to order, too. “It’s all about the beer”. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/55 "2003-12-03T19:01:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bumbazine \* > \*\*I don’t think pirateing, or pirateage, was everything people make it out to be. Do you have any idea what your shirt would look like after carrying a parrot around on your shoulder all day? And the _smell! phew!_ \*\* The trick is to put a _stuffed_ parrot on your shoulder. Yes, that’s right, a _dead_ parrot. A parrot that has _ceased to be._ An _ex-parrot,_ if you prefer. A Norwegian Blue ex-parrot to be exact. Where would the DopeBoat cruise to? I’m in favor of an Alaskan trip–the inside passage is beautiful and we woludn’t have to worry about getting hit on the head by any unexpectedly falling coconuts. (They don’t mention it in the travel ads, but it’s a big problem on those tropical island cruises. Really, it is. Would I lie to you about a life-threatening situation?) **FairyChatMom** , I can’t kiss **Bumbazine** , so I’m sending you a kiss so he can benefit indirectly. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/56 "2003-12-03T19:31:43Z")
You know what you get with the Alaskan Cruises? The threat of iceburgs. And you can bet they ain’t friendly iceburgs waiting to take us all to Greece neither. It’s those big, mean _Titanic_-wrecking iceburgs unless I miss my guess. On the upside, we could all pretend to see whales while we eat the cheesecake. So there is that. Hey! We could have the DopeCruise in a Super 8 off I-75. Or a Fairfield Inn if we want to be all up-scale. _Pretend_ we’re on a boat while we _pretend_ to see whales. And if we run low on cheesecake (You know what kind of cheesecake I like best? That Jell-O no bake stuff. I know it’s not “real” cheesecake, but it’s quick and easy.), we could always run out to the store and not have to wait til we dock or nuthin’. It’s a perfect plan. As long as we’re near a liquor store. That delivers. Hmmm… maybe I should look into this after the holidays… Naw! Too much work. _Someone else_ should look into it after the holidays. It might not rain so much that way. -Rue. (off to st’rb’rd) ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/57 "2003-12-03T19:46:46Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally Posted by Bumbazine:_ > Wear me silver buckled slippers and me tight, shiney pants, > I want to sing and dance! Now I have visions of **Bumbazine** in tight, shiney pants prancing around and eating cheesecake. I find it rather err… umm… stange, yet erotic at the same time. 😃 Good idea **Rue**. We could decorate the meeting room at the Fairfield Inn (I’m all for upscale) like a cruise ship! We could use one of the walls for rock climbing. We could pretend to be seasick and puke out a window. (or maybe not… that’d be ick.) The Dopeboat! Exciting and New! Come on board! We’re expecting you! -swampbear (off to the poop deck. well, the bathroom anyway) ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/58 "2003-12-03T20:18:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by swampbear \* > **Now I have visions of Bumbazine in tight, shiney pants prancing around and eating cheesecake. I find it rather err… umm… stange, yet erotic at the same time. 😃** :eek: ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/59 "2003-12-03T21:16:18Z")
Of course if I did see **Bumbazine** in tight, shiney pants prancing around and eating cheesecake, my reaction might very well be : :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257/60 "2003-12-03T22:19:36Z")
Hey, guys, don’t forget that _one_ of us has a boat. Of course, if there are more than 8 bodies aboard, it’s way too crowded, so maybe a pretend cruise at a sleezy motel would work. Not that I know anything about sleezy motels, except what I’ve read. And I think **Bumb** would be a sight in shiney pants. That’s all I’m sayin’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-all-about-the-love-people/216257.md?page=4)