Well a pool table is designed to remain perfectly still and definitely flat during use. Exactly the opposite of the conditions you normally get on board a boat at sea.

Even when in port a boat is never perfectly still and flat and vibrations from the engines would cause the balls to jitter slightly at the rotational frequency or harmonic of this.

I was recently asked if a US citizen needed a passport to visit Hawaii. When I explained that no, Hawaii is a state so a passport was not needed - he replied

I'm not stupid you know. I know Hawaii is a state. But you have to fly over the ocean so that makes it international

I was like :eek:

That was funny... you get a smiley. :D

Not as funny as your story, but one time at a McDonald's in Paris, the kid behind the counter said, (regarding my drink),
"do you want small, medium, or Texas-size".

Then later at another McDonald's, I told my nephew to go up to the cashier and order me a "Texas-sized Coke"... the cashier was clueless, and I was amused as I watched my nephew struggle to communicate.

My wife and I drove up the valley in Switzerland towards Zermatt. We stopped at the last town you can drive to and bought tickets for the train to get the rest of the way to Zermatt. As we were waiting, my wife asked, "Do you think the train will be on time?"

On another trip to Europe, we met a friendly young man who, upon discovering we lived in Tennessee (the northeast corner), he said "Tennessee -- Elvis! I someday come to see Elvis house. Maybe I come by to see you, too!" "Please do," we answered, "It's only an 11-hour drive."

I once worked for a U.S. division of BASF, a German company with headquarters in Ludwigshafen, on the Rhine. An upper executive from our side went to Ludwigshafen for meetings that included a social event with an opportunity to meet the new CEO. The CEO asked the American, "Is this your first time in Ludwigshafen?" "No," he replied, "I was part of the U.S. army unit that took prisoners here when we liberated Ludwigshafen during the war." "Really!" the CEO exclaimed, "I was a P.O.W., and was taken prisoner by your unit."

Were you in Paris, France or Paris, Texas? :p

It was in Perris Valley, California... sorry, I mis-spelled it, and I shortened the name cause I'm lazy. I guess I put the phonetic pronounciation...

O.K. you got me... you get a smiley. :D

I'm glad you cleared that up. I thought you might have been in an area near CDG. :)

"Cdg"? How do you pronounce that? Odd that the word doesn't have any vowels.

(that's my "b" comedy material, folks).

It's pronounced 'Roissy' :)

I thought it was pronounced Charles De Gaulle? :eek:

cool! haven't checked this since last nite.

apart from being from deepest darkest africa, i am also fortunate enough to live in southeast alaska, home of king salmon and cruise ship tourist. inevitably, these questions pop up quite a lot:

1. is there a bathroom on shore?
2. do you have a grocery store in town?
3. how far above sea level are we?
4. do you take american dollars, or just canadian money?
5. how far do we have to go to see polar bears?
6. how far is the walk to the rain forest? (you're standing right in the middle of it).
7.do you have a high school here? you do? a hospital? a college campus!!!!! wow! how many people live in this town???
8. where do you go in the winter time?
9 how many feet of snow do you get a year? (oh maybe bout two feet)
10. why is it always raining? (cause you're standing in the middle of the biggest f****g rainforest in Noth America!!)

but my favorite is still the people who thinks it's necesary to walk around town with two walking sticks and bells and wistles around their necks to keep the bears at bay. :)

In Roissy, it's pronounced Charles de Gaulle. Around Charles de Gaulle, it's pronounced Roissy. Go further away again, and it's Charles de Gaulle all the way. Those seeking a compromise go for Roissy-Charles de Gaulle.

Clear? :)

Perfectly. Thanks. ^

But I think I'll just pronounce it CDG. Or Paris. :)

While the debate about cause and effect is probably something for OMNI, the availability of fast public transport in the UK is a large part of why people might not think of driving 100 miles or more. You'd just get on a train. At current petrol prices (somewhere near $7 per US gallon at the moment), it's often a much better bet for that sort of distance, plus you can often get there rather faster than if you drive.

So you haven't been on one of RCI's Radiance class ships, with their self-levelling pool tables? Rumour has it that on the delivery voyage of the first of the class, the manufacturer's representative slept on one of the tables during an Atlantic storm, because it was the calmest place on board.