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Steven Christian
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I'll admit I have laughed at jokes about Titanic. Mostly the one's dealing with the totally fictional and unrealistic Jack and Rose story. But even as far back as the early 1970's. I thought the skit that Monty Python did with the women and children first was quite funny. I even heard James Cameron tell jokes about his movie that I laughed at. One I recently came across I chuckled at....When the movie Titanic turned 25 years old, Leo lost interest in it.
Kathy S
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Well, those instances I can understand, I think. I haven't seen the Monty Python skit, and that joke about Leo losing interest is funny.
What I was referring to were jokes about the actual sinking. I've seen t-shirts reading "Titanic Swim Team," which I do not find amusing, and I was flat-out offended by that Titanic slide that used to circulate around fairs and field days. Even though my kids were little back then I would never let them on it.
Dave Gittins
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Dave Gittins
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Steven Christian
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I thought those slides were tacky to say the least. But I thought they were small slides like something for the backyard. I didn't know they were that big like in the pic that Dave just posted. I think I started a thread or maybe just commented in another how I thought the news channels needed to give the Titanic analogies a break. Over used them to point I got sick of hearing about re-arranging the deck chairs on Titanic.
Arun Vajpey
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Like Kathy and ET I too don't like jokes made about events during the actual sinking given that 1496 people died in it. But those made about related events taking place before or after are usually acceptable and despite hearing several such over the years, the one that never fails to make me burst out laughing is the one below posted by Cam a few years ago:
I am not even sure if it was meant to be a joke in the first place but the vision of the swimming fur coat never ceases to amuse me, especially the nonchalant manner in which it was worded as above. The strange part is, Richard Williams said that he actually took the fur coat off before jumping into the water - perfectly understandable as he would have struggled to swim wearing it - and after seeing his father crushed to death under the falling funnel, somehow made it to the waterlogged Collapsible A. By some "unaccountable way" the fur coat also ended up in the lifeboat and although Williams left it on board when they were transferred first to Lifeboat #14 by Lowe and later on board the Carpathia, the fur coat appears to have decided to follow its master. When Collapsible A was found adrift almost a month later by the crew of the Oceanic, the fur coat was still there with the 3 bodies and Elin Lindell's wedding ring; the deceased were given a sea burial and the ring returned to the Lindell family. Harold Wingate, a White Star official, had the fur coat cleaned and restored as much as possible and had it returned to Richard Williams, but what happened to it afterwards is unkown. If still there, it must be one of the most unusual Titanic memorabilia ever.
I am not even sure if it was meant to be a joke in the first place but the vision of the swimming fur coat never ceases to amuse me, especially the nonchalant manner in which it was worded as above. The strange part is, Richard Williams said that he actually took the fur coat off before jumping into the water - perfectly understandable as he would have struggled to swim wearing it - and after seeing his father crushed to death under the falling funnel, somehow made it to the waterlogged Collapsible A. By some "unaccountable way" the fur coat also ended up in the lifeboat and although Williams left it on board when they were transferred first to Lifeboat #14 by Lowe and later on board the Carpathia, the fur coat appears to have decided to follow its master. When Collapsible A was found adrift almost a month later by the crew of the Oceanic, the fur coat was still there with the 3 bodies and Elin Lindell's wedding ring; the deceased were given a sea burial and the ring returned to the Lindell family. Harold Wingate, a White Star official, had the fur coat cleaned and restored as much as possible and had it returned to Richard Williams, but what happened to it afterwards is unkown. If still there, it must be one of the most unusual Titanic memorabilia ever.
Kathy S
Member
That is funny, Arun, and an interesting story about the fur coat. I hadn't known is was retrieved from Collapsible A.
antren
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The fate of this coat is truly mysterious! It's incredible what stories the memory of historical objects can hold. It is indeed one of those stories that make us think about the mystery of the past.
Michaela Famfulikova
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I do not know, if it is off topic or not, but Martin Stein in Legends of Tomorrow, played by Victor Garber, reacts to the suggestion of Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh), that they should time travel to the Titanic, as follows:" Absolutely not. I refuse to set foot on Titanic. Whoever built it,oughta be shot!" ( Vic played Titanic builder in Cameron movie , and his character was shot later on in the LoT series). Do not consider this that funny to be quite honest.
Titanic imagery I've used in some "jokes" or mocking images. The other maritine one I'll use is the "boomerang topedo" ....
Here is an example of one i constructed mocking our NZ leftist/Labour party, apologies for bringing politics to the forum, to add one of my personal fav's regarding politics.
Poli - "many"
Tics - "blood sucking insects"
To explain the "titanic" reference.
"Cindy" is Jacinda Ardern, NZ's worst prime minister in history.
"Peters" is Winston Peters who was NZ First coalition leader
"Shaw", James Shaw leader of NZ Green party at that time.
CGT - capital gains tax
Kiwibuild version 1 of three revamped all massive fail socialist build housing projects.
Yes, they rigged both previous elections
Here is an example of one i constructed mocking our NZ leftist/Labour party, apologies for bringing politics to the forum, to add one of my personal fav's regarding politics.
Poli - "many"
Tics - "blood sucking insects"
To explain the "titanic" reference.
"Cindy" is Jacinda Ardern, NZ's worst prime minister in history.
"Peters" is Winston Peters who was NZ First coalition leader
"Shaw", James Shaw leader of NZ Green party at that time.
CGT - capital gains tax
Kiwibuild version 1 of three revamped all massive fail socialist build housing projects.
Yes, they rigged both previous elections
Steven Christian
Member
Not being from New Zealand I don't get the cartoon. But the "Poli" "Tics" is most appropriate. Kinda of like where I used to work. Calling someone an expert meant ex=has been...spurt=drip under pressure.
Ah yes... "X - Spurts" claim that an iceberg sunk the Titanic "...
GovernMENTAL department's are brimming in self claiming "experts".
Kathy S
Member
I just came across this on Amazon and am sputtering with indignation.
I'm sorry . . . a toy Lusitania model with little torpedoes? Presumably so your child can reenact in the bathtub the destruction of a beautiful ship and the deaths of more than 1,000 innocent men, women, and children?
I continue to be baffled by why people think it's OK to make light of horrific tragedies simply because they happened more than 100 years ago.
EDIT: Sorry, moderators; perhaps I should have put this in the Lusitania section, but I didn't see a thread that addressed jokes, and it didn't seem to merit its own thread.
I'm sorry . . . a toy Lusitania model with little torpedoes? Presumably so your child can reenact in the bathtub the destruction of a beautiful ship and the deaths of more than 1,000 innocent men, women, and children?
I continue to be baffled by why people think it's OK to make light of horrific tragedies simply because they happened more than 100 years ago.
EDIT: Sorry, moderators; perhaps I should have put this in the Lusitania section, but I didn't see a thread that addressed jokes, and it didn't seem to merit its own thread.
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