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Long Beach [CA] considers options for Queen Mary, including sinking the ship
LA Times ^
| Hugo Martin
Posted on 07/21/2021 1:47:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Ask Bezos to disassemble and reassemble it in Death Valley as a space launch pad and tourist spectacle.
To: Sans-Culotte
We stayed on it a few years ago and had a great time.
Seeing this, I’m very glad for the experience. It was like stepping into a time machine.
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:12:32 PM PDT
by
cld51860
(We’re doomed.)
To: BenLurkin
Sinking ships and California go together.
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:12:55 PM PDT
by
Track9
(Dealing with democrats is like living without toilet paper. )
To: BenLurkin
The QM wouldn’t make it two hundred off the dock before it sinks or capsizes. Much of its insides have been torn out and its hull neglected so it won’t be able to move without immediate damage.
Plus you have the most inept city government in California trying to save it.
To: BenLurkin
A derelict ship? Hmmm...
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:14:37 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: BenLurkin
My grandmother sailed on her years ago.
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:17:39 PM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: BenLurkin
from the same people that created 600,000 dollar homeless apartments.
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:18:24 PM PDT
by
bdfromlv
(Leavenworth hard time)
To: BenLurkin
My niece worked their giving tours for several years. Stories abound about the ship being haunted. She looked me right in the eyes and said: “Those aren’t stories. I’ve seen them, there is definitely something there.”
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:18:40 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal. )
To: BenLurkin
give it to the artist formerly known as prince harry and his bride meghan as a wedding present...
they’ll figure out a way to sink it...
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:19:23 PM PDT
by
heavy metal
(smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
To: BenLurkin
What? How is that possible?
..............
Before you can sink a ship, it has to have all toxic materials stripped. That isn’t cheap. Plus it’s California.
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:19:48 PM PDT
by
lurk
( )
To: StormEye
Does the Navy even know how to use their weapons? I mean with so much of their train time taken up by learning to be woke and being taught how racist they are I don’t see much time for anything else.
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:20:05 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
To: BenLurkin
I don’t think it can move or be towed.
It will have to be dismantled in place.
I wonder why they could not just cement it in. and make it a walk-in historical hotel.
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:24:39 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
To: Fester Chugabrew
Have Bezos build a civilian version of space battleship Yamato.
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:24:57 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
To: BenLurkin
Maybe it costs that much because of the kickbacks that would go to the officials awarding the contract.
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:25:26 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: BenLurkin
Why not fill everything below the waterline with self hardening closed cell spray foam?
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:25:35 PM PDT
by
EasySt
(Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAGOr)
To: BenLurkin
Too bad. If you like Art Deco the Queen Mary is a masterpiece. Here are some interior shots:
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:25:51 PM PDT
by
wildcard_redneck
( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
To: BenLurkin
I should send a letter to the
Mayor of Milwaukee.
He's getting bored with his streetcar . . .
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:27:00 PM PDT
by
BraveMan
To: freedumb2003
"I wonder why they could not just cement it in. and make it a walk-in historical hotel. That makes too much sense and it is way too cheap. The ship is being held hostage by the establishment. Either citizens cough up money for and insanely generous contract so that Nancy Pelosi or her nephew Gavin Newsom can milk us dry they will destroy the nice stuff, it's just the way it is
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:29:34 PM PDT
by
wildcard_redneck
( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
To: BenLurkin
As a kid my Dad took my brother and I to see it’s last voyage into Long Beach Harbor. 55 years ago and I have never been to see it up close.
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:33:19 PM PDT
by
12chachacha
(Bad illogical advice)
To: BenLurkin
Access to the ship was pretty wide open back in 1974, when a buddy and I used to roam around inside. We’d look for signs that said: Not Open to the Public.
A friend’s wife was a bartender in the Capstan Room, so we were able to buy drinks, in spite of being underage.
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posted on
07/21/2021 2:34:11 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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