# Most Ridiculous Thing to Stuff on a Yacht **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 2, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116 "2005-05-02T19:55:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/41 "2005-05-03T12:49:29Z")
Where would you put the prosthetic nose, then, if not the bow? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/42 "2005-05-03T16:50:58Z")
A roller coaster. Sandra Bullock. Telephone booth. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/43 "2005-05-03T17:00:10Z")
Oooh. And the dumbest thing to put on your yacht has gotta be . . . Robert Wagner. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/44 "2005-05-03T17:01:15Z")
Goddamn it. I really should read entire threads before posting, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/45 "2005-05-03T17:01:24Z")
How about [a software development company?](http://www.forbes.com/business/forbes/2005/0509/048.html) > [@](#): > > Two San Diego entrepreneurs have come up with a very literal twist on offshoring software development jobs. This pair wants to get their hands on a 600-cabin cruise ship and park it off the coast of El Segundo, Calif., just over the 3-mile border that marks international waters. They’ll pack the boat with engineers who will write code day and night. > > The two founders of SeaCode, David Cook and Roger Green, are confident their plan will float. All they need to do is classify their workers as “seamen,” so that they’re protected by international maritime laws that skirt the need for those pesky immigration visas. The workers will fly in and out of Los Angeles International and board the ship with a sailor’s card from the Bahamas, where the ship likely will be registered. This lets the company avoid U.S. payroll taxes on the foreign coders. Cook, a former supertanker skipper, plans to dock in Long Beach once a month to resupply and dispose of waste. What I find bizarre, is that the company claims on their [site](http://www.sea-code.com/) that > [@](#): > > With Hybrid-Sourcing™ SeaCode brings already offshored jobs back to the U.S. and assures that 90 cents of every dollar from our clients stays in the U.S. instead of flowing to foreign locations. I don’t see how that’s possible. ---
**Author:** ![Lathe\_of\_Heaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Lathe\_of\_Heaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lathe_of_Heaven)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/46 "2005-05-03T17:56:46Z")
> [@Dewey Finn](#): > > And apparently the barstools on Aristotle Onassis’s yacht were upholstered in whale foreskin. \ Q. Do you know how to circumcize a whale? A. You need four skin divers… \ ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/47 "2005-05-03T19:15:42Z")
WTF? Did you guys forget the booze, blackjack and hookers? All of you, in unison, hang your heads in shame! ---
**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:** [May 3, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/48 "2005-05-03T19:21:23Z")
An elephant. It would be ridiculous to stuff an elephant on a yacht. You should take it to a Taxidermist. Some things are best left to the experts. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/49 "2005-05-03T19:22:58Z")
> [@Yeticus Rex](#): > > WTF? Did you guys forget the booze, blackjack and hookers? > > All of you, in unison, hang your heads in shame! Ah, forget the blackjack! ---
**Author:** ![WeRSauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/50 "2005-05-03T19:43:19Z")
The Marianas Trench. So the yacht’s passengers can visit its bottom. Once. In a recreation of 1960 CE. WRS ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/51 "2005-05-03T20:13:41Z")
Waterbed? ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/52 "2005-05-04T04:24:37Z")
an army of midget ninjas. a street sweeper that looks like a Roomba. The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/53 "2005-05-04T05:06:12Z")
Sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads. ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/54 "2005-05-04T09:37:23Z")
An apricot scarf. Obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/55 "2005-05-04T16:46:16Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > If you designed it right, the subway cars could operate in the elevator shafts as well. You’re getting close, here… What you’re describing here is a primitive [turbolift](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbolift). Speaking of which: In addition to the turbolift, you’ll need a holodeck, for when you get bored of hanging out on your yacht with your buddies - You could pretend to sail away on a yacht. Also, a shuttle bay. That would just be silly. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/56 "2005-05-04T21:56:19Z")
A trebouchet capable of flinging people off the top deck would be pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/57 "2005-05-04T22:02:49Z")
> [@Yeticus Rex](#): > > A trebouchet capable of flinging people off the top deck would be pretty cool. Oooh! And if you had a catapult on a _lower_ deck, you could fling them from the trebuchet, into the catapult’s bucket, that would cause the catapult to cock back, and then fling the person into a wall (or the onboard pool, if you’re feeling compassionate)! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116.md?page=2)