Posted on 06/23/2010 5:49:37 AM PDT by C19fan
I believe if you go to the Holocaust museum in DC they have a similiar “ticket.” You get a name and find out at the end if the person survived or not.
Visitors get a card with the name of a random passenger (or crewmember, I think) on the ship, along with basic info about the person and what ticket class they held. Along the way, you learn what it was like to sail on the Titanic, and at the end there is an elegant and somber memorial that lists what happened to everyone on the ship. People tend to reflect on their own mortality via sympathy for “their” passenger. It’s not treated like some kind of boardgame, and doesn’t come across as disprespectful.
Given all the floods in Tennessee, you think some of the neighbors were wondering what the shipbuilders knew that they didn’t?
“two by two, folks...”
Oh...I GOT...to get me one of those.
The lady in the commercials sure sounds British! :)
BTW, an Appalachian hillbilly accent has many similarities to a British accent. The settlers in these mountains were mostly Scotch-Irish and Brits. The theory is that Appalachians, being pretty secluded from the rest of Americans, kept more closely to the older speech patterns.
For example: like the Brits, hillbillys tend to hang an “R” sound on words ending in “W”, like winder for window. They also use the word “reckon”, as in “I reckon I better close that winder”. Reckon is considered a low-class word here, but is often used in the King James Bible and is commonly used and considered proper in Britain.
I’m sure there are others on FR that know more about this subject, or can correct me if I’m remembering this wrong...
Fletcher J
Any link to the commercial? I live in Central VA so a trip to the Biltmore, then swing into TN would be nice.
We should go see this when you visit.
We saw the outside of the Branson one last week. Too much theme park and water park time to go into it.
Pigeon Forge is Myrtle Beach without the class.
Those are flotation devices, not a sinking ship.
Alternatively, you could bill that as the “Twin Peaks of Pigeon Forge”.
I suppose everyone needs a hobby.
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