20 November 2005

The Tragic Tale of the Cap Arcona

One of the worst naval disasters of all time:

On April 26, 1945, Cap Arcona was loaded with prisoners from the concentration camp Neuengamme and together with two smaller ships, Thielbek and Athen, was brought into the Bay of Lubeck with the intention of destroying evidence of what happened at Neuengamme by scuttling the ships with the prisoners imprisoned below.

Wikipedia

Three years before being sunk the Cap Arcona became the backdrop for the film Titanic.

Cap Arcona flashsite

More ships



!SR

05 November 2005

New RAW book

Robert Anton Wilson has a new book:

(although I think he spends too much time these days critising extreme feminism.)


EMAIL TO THE UNIVERSE

Robert Anton Wilson

The range of Robert Anton Wilson's expertise is always astonishing. In email to the universe he tackles a dazzling array of subjects including: The Passion of the Antichrist; The Celtic Roots of Quantum Theory; Paranoia; Black Magick & Curses; LSD, Dogs & Me; Left and Right: A Non-Euclidean Perspective; Sexual Alchemy; Cheerful Reflections on Death and Dying; The Relativity of "Reality" and a whole bunch more. Bob's description of his campaign to become governor of California (as the candidate of the Guns & Dope party, no less) will have you rolling on the floor.

<>ISBN 1-56184-194-3 256 pages $16.95


Link

!SR

Irish humour

A teacher asks her class to use the word 'contagious' in a sentence.      
Roland, the class swot, gets up and says, "Last year I got the Flu
my Mum said it was contagious."
"Well done, Roland" says the teacher." Can anyone else try?"
Katie, a sweet little girl with pigtails, says," My grandma says
there's a bug going round, and it's contagious."
"Well done, Katie" says the teacher. "Anyone else?"
Little Irish Shaun jumps up and says in a broad Irish voice, "Our
next door neighbour is painting his house with a two-inch brush and my
Dad
says it will take the contagious.
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A Scotsman, an Italian, and an Irishman are in a bar. They are
having a good time and all agree that the bar is a nice place. Then the
Scotsman says, "Aye, this is a nice bar, but where I come from, back in>
Culbokie, there's a better one. At the Culbokie Inn, ye buy a drink, ye
buy
another drink, and the proprietor himself will buy yir third drink!" The
others agree that sounds like a good place.
Then the Italian says, "Yeah, zat's a nice bar, but where I come
from, zere's a better one. In Roma, zere's this place, Vincenzo's. At
Vincenzo's, you buy a drink, Vincenzo buys you a drink. You buy anudda
drink,
Vincenzo buys you anudda drink." Everyone agrees that sounds like a great
bar.
Then the Irishman says, "You tink dat's great? Where Oi come from in
Dublin, dere's dis place called Morphy's. At Morphy's, they boy you
your forst drink, dey boy you your second drink, dey boy you your tird
drink, and den, dey take you in de back and get you laid!"
Wow!" say the other two. "That's fantastic! Did that actually
happen to you?"
No," replies the Irish guy, "but it happened to me
sister!".........

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The plane crash
Ireland's worst air disaster occurred today when a small 2-seater
Cessna plane crashed into a cemetery this afternoon in central Ireland.
Irish search and rescue workers have recovered 826 bodies so far and
>expect that number to climb as digging continues into the night.
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