Posted on 04/16/2006 2:31:24 PM PDT by 4Runner
WELCOME to Brooklyn, passengers. It seems fitting that the Queen Mary 2 - the massive snob-mover that insists on segregating first-class passengers from lowly steerage types - made its inaugural landing in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on the 94th anniversary of the day the Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic.
This time, the Queen made it across the ocean without incident. I think a few folks on board might have preferred the excitement of a close encounter with an iceberg.
The ship was welcomed to our shores before 5 a.m., not with champagne or fireworks - but with a public display of the white backsides of the drunken revelers of the Pioneer Bar, a local hangout.
"We have to moon the boat!" announced ringleader Christopher Piscitelli. And then he and his buddies did just that.
People who flocked to the decks to look at the Statue of Liberty, then enshrouded in thick fog, had to make do with the local scene. The amused passengers clapped and snapped pictures as if viewing natives in their natural habitat.
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Mooning a ship!
What a backward (and backass) idea!
"the Pioneer Bar"
Gay bar?
With an attitude like this, "massive snob-mover ", maybe the reporter should have had a different assignment.
Somehow I doubt the QM has steerage class at present. It's a lot cheaper to fly across. I've seen tickets as low as $250. Anybody willing to pay the price to cross on the QM sure wouldn't accept steerage conditions.
I agree. I priced it(QE2) a few years ago at several thousand dollars.
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