Good evening everyone~
There were two occasions that I know of that were somewhat considered „humourous“ moments during the evacuation.
One situation was when a corpulent passenger stumbled into a lifeboat and an officer said something like „this is the funniest thing I’ve seen tonight“
And...
My choice is one from Cameron's Titanic -
(DiCaprio and Winslet break through a door)
OFFICER: "Oi! What are you doing! You'll have to pay for that! That's White Star Line property..."
DICAPRIO AND WINSLET: "SHUT THE **** UP!!!"
Admittedly this could be a very brief topic (sort of like "The Lighter Side of National Socialism"). However ... ;^)
On Tuesday afternoon, April 23, 1912, The Clinton Daily Item -- a small newspaper from a small town 34 miles from Boston -- initiated the opening of that can of worms now...
Helen: LOL!
Or we could have had Mr. Ismay attempt to dive into Collapsible C, miss the boat, and fall into the water, as the officer watches with a big "Oops!" look on his face!
~Brandon
The recent thread on the funny moments of the Cameron movie prompted me to bring this up.
I'm not going to begrudge this or any Titanic film its moments of humor, but it seems to me that it can be very dangerous to make historical figures the butt of jokes. Especially certain historical...
Just took receipt yesterday of Senan Molony’s new work, ‘A Garbled Titantic’.
Those of you on Jeff Newman’s excellent Titanic Mailing List would be familiar with the serialisation of the work that he has been posting. Much as in the days of Dickens when readers rushed to get the latest...
Hello! I thought it would be humorous to hear stories that we have encountered in our Titanic teachings, speaches or just conversations. I haven't been involved in Titanic circles for long and know some of you have some tales to top mine, but here goes.
Back in 1998, my daughters fifth grade...