Nice, but my favorite quote is half poetry, half philosophy. I prefer it.
However, I hear there is a T-shirt out with your favorite quote, so it seems you win in the marketplace of ideas.
“Hey toots, hold my glass. Now watch this!”
I was about to make the joke, “Schettino” is Italian for “Hazelwood.” Then did a quick Google search. Someone beat me to it.
I’m sure that comedians all over the world are mining this incident for all it’s worth.
“Oh babe, you ain’t seen nothing until you’ve seen my disaster management skills.”
“Vada a bordo, cazzo!” It’s my facebook status.
Cazzo does not mean “damnit”. 
I’d heard that the Captain deliberately steered the ship off course… is that still what they’re thinking he did? I know it was stated that the crew didn’t seem to know shit from shinola about any escape plan… AND some of the passengers said they were never given any semblance of survival training. Boy, it looks like safety standards have gone the way of the dodo bird.
From here which gives more of the transcript,
So first he says he abandoned ship, then one sentence later says he didn’t.
To be honest, when I first heard of the wreck my immediate thought was, “I wonder if the captain was drunk.”
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I’d heard that the Captain deliberately steered the ship off course… is that still what they’re thinking he did? …/QUOTE]
Yes, the captain has already testified before a judge that he deliberately steered the ship off the standard route.
Good Lord. He was partying both before AND after the collision.
Funny - he later said that he tripped and fell into the lifeboat. I guess it’s hard to remember stuff when you’re still drunk.
There’s an unconfirmed rumor that once on shore he hailed a taxi and asked to be taken “as far away from here as possible”. I wait to see if that is confirmed.
Every captain has to eat, sleep, and recreate sometime… but isn’t the first officer left in charge of the ship, with instructions to wake or interrupt the captain if something goes Really Wrong?
The first officer could not do that, because the captain had put a sock on the doorknob of his cabin. >wink wink>
:: reads linked news stories ::
He ordered dinner after the crash? Cripes. If I was captain of a ship that had just collided with something, food’d be the last thing on my mind.
And the young woman he had dined with was later on the bridge? And he was married to someone else? (why do I have a feeling he was breaking marriage vows?)
Oy.
The Google translate of that is
“Go on board, fuck!”
I guess they wanted him to finish?
Catapulted, tripped, lifeboat, water, whatever. It’s all good.
OK, OK. The ship catapulted him into the water. Once he hit the water he tripped into the lifeboat.
Yeah, I think that explanation will save him from the charge of abandoning ship.
In the 1950s, when the Andrea Doria collided with the SS Stockholm, there was a near-riot when the Stockholm picked up the first lifeboat and it was full of officers and crew from AD. Reminiscent of how the Italian army managed to have several thousand frostbite invalids in their June campaign against the French.
Italians are the lounge lizards everyone ever thought they were.
How goes that Euro for you Italy?
I look forward to hearing how the captain was not actually *obligated *to stay sober, keep a safe distance from shore, and remain on the ship while passengers were still in need of rescue because nothing was *preventing *him from failing to do those things.
Maybe I can be a ship’s captain too. I promise, if my ship hits the rocks, I’l start drinking and head for the lifeboats.