# The front fell off **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 21, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-front-fell-off/438467 "2008-02-21T00:28:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-front-fell-off/438467/1 "2008-02-21T00:28:34Z")
I love how [this guy](http://www.hutton-web-design.co.uk/tanker.html) never gets into anything technical. (It’s a video, for anyone who wants to skip it). My husband made the comment that it sounds like a Monty Python sketch. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-front-fell-off/438467/2 "2008-02-21T00:48:43Z")
More like a Clarke & Dawe sketch, I’d say. 🙂 I love it too. ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-front-fell-off/438467/3 "2008-02-21T02:18:37Z")
Someone posted that here last fall… Hilarious sketch! ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-front-fell-off/438467/4 "2008-02-21T04:16:47Z")
This was a real incident in 1991. [This one](http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1991/MAIR/mair33.aspx), I think. Senator Bob Collins was the then Minister for Shipping. Clarke and Dawe have been doing these current events sketches for some time. See [here](http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/clarkedawe.htm) for recent ones. A less funny angle to this is that the Coroner made a public comment on Collins’ death in the last week or so. [An ugly business](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Collins_%28Australian_politician%29) - he was eventually successful in killing himself just prior to his trial on numerous child sex charges. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-front-fell-off/438467/5 "2008-02-21T06:50:10Z")
[QUOTE=E. Thorp] More like a Clarke & Dawe sketch, I’d say. 🙂 I love it too. [/QUOTE] They also did a series called _The Games_, a mockumentary on the organizing of the Sydney Olympics, that’s one of the funniest shows I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-front-fell-off/438467/6 "2008-02-21T14:57:59Z")
What kind of materials can the ship be made of? Well, carboard’s right out! Anything else? Cardboard derivatives… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-front-fell-off/438467/7 "2008-02-21T15:14:42Z")
"Paper…paper’s out. " I love that video. I practically have it memorized and it never fails to make me laugh.