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1) Darude - Sandstorm
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14%
2) Madness - Nightboat to Cairo
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3) Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You
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4) The Pirates of the Caribbean Theme Song (May or may not include kazoo or flute versions)
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5) Something with a ukele
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6) Benny Hill Theme
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7) Hasselhoff Option
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8) NO MUSIC, THIS IS NOT FUNNY GUUUYSSS
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9) I have a perfect suggestion; something else!
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Total votes : 112

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Postby Ifreann » Mon Mar 29, 2021 6:37 am

Very sad to see this hilarious shenanigan come to an end.
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Postby Forsher » Mon Mar 29, 2021 6:38 am

How has it almost been a week?

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Postby Ifreann » Mon Mar 29, 2021 6:47 am

I propose that at this time every year, we jam another ship across the Suez Canal.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Mon Mar 29, 2021 6:48 am

Ifreann wrote:I propose that at this time every year, we jam another ship across the Suez Canal.


I propose to rename this boat BoatyMcBoatFace.
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Postby Sengoku Americas » Mon Mar 29, 2021 6:49 am

Ifreann wrote:Very sad to see this hilarious shenanigan come to an end.


I was hoping this would last for at least another week.
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Postby Ifreann » Mon Mar 29, 2021 6:53 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Ifreann wrote:I propose that at this time every year, we jam another ship across the Suez Canal.


I propose to rename this boat BoatyMcBoatFace.

It's bad luck to rename a ship. Instead, I propose we rename this section of the Suez Canal to the Ever Given Rest Stop.
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Postby Baltenstein » Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:13 am

Ifreann wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:
I propose to rename this boat BoatyMcBoatFace.

It's bad luck to rename a ship.


Wouldn't want for anything unpleasant to happen with the Ever Given, eh?
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Postby Ifreann » Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:17 am

Baltenstein wrote:
Ifreann wrote:It's bad luck to rename a ship.


Wouldn't want for anything unpleasant to happen with the Ever Given, eh?

Exactly. We need her intact so she can do this again.
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Postby Kannap » Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:23 am

Feeling nostalgic, wishing we could go back to a simpler time when there was a ship stuck in the Suez Canal.
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Postby Ifreann » Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:43 am

Kannap wrote:Feeling nostalgic, wishing we could go back to a simpler time when there was a ship stuck in the Suez Canal.

Feel like shit, just want her back(in the way of global trade)
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Postby SD_Film Artists » Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:50 am

Now's the time to sort the men from the boys; who's still embracing the Cape of Good Hope and who's going straight back to the canal like a bunch of beta landlubbing posers.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:00 am

Ifreann wrote:
Kannap wrote:Feeling nostalgic, wishing we could go back to a simpler time when there was a ship stuck in the Suez Canal.

Feel like shit, just want her back(in the way of global trade)

Think of the Dutch, waiting for their sex toys. You want to deprive them of their toys? No fun for the Netherlands?

Tsk tsk.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:06 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Feel like shit, just want her back(in the way of global trade)

Think of the Dutch, waiting for their sex toys. You want to deprive them of their toys? No fun for the Netherlands?

Tsk tsk.


Just because it ends up in Rotterdam, doesn't mean that it is for the dutch. Many of the things are transported through to other countries, like Germany.

Not that I would know, of course.
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Postby Heloin » Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:07 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Feel like shit, just want her back(in the way of global trade)

Think of the Dutch, waiting for their sex toys. You want to deprive them of their toys? No fun for the Netherlands?

Tsk tsk.

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Postby Christian Confederation » Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:17 am

Get back in the canal where you belong
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Postby The Greater Ohio Valley » Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:24 am

Ifreann wrote:I propose that at this time every year, we jam another ship across the Suez Canal.

Or we could just do the Panama Canal next time and then the Saint Lawrence Seaway after that to mix things up.
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Postby The Archregimancy » Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:37 am

The Greater Ohio Valley wrote:
Ifreann wrote:I propose that at this time every year, we jam another ship across the Suez Canal.

Or we could just do the Panama Canal next time and then the Saint Lawrence Seaway after that to mix things up.


No, no, no...

For some real fun, we should look to block China's Grand Canal - simultaneously the world's longest artificial canal (over 1700 km / 1100 miles), perhaps the oldest in continuous everyday use (some sections date back to the 5th century BC, though it only became a coherent single unit at the end of the 5th century AD), and the world's longest UNESCO World Heritage site. Nor is it some arcane historical oddity; according to Wiki, 'the Jianbi ship locks on the Yangtze are currently handling some 75,000,000 tons each year, and the Li Canal is forecast to reach 100,000,000 tons in the next few years'.

Now that's a serious canal.

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Postby Fartsniffage » Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:47 am

The Archregimancy wrote:
The Greater Ohio Valley wrote:Or we could just do the Panama Canal next time and then the Saint Lawrence Seaway after that to mix things up.


No, no, no...

For some real fun, we should look to block China's Grand Canal - simultaneously the world's longest artificial canal (over 1700 km / 1100 miles), perhaps the oldest in continuous everyday use (some sections date back to the 5th century BC, though it only became a coherent single unit at the end of the 5th century AD), and the world's longest UNESCO World Heritage site. Nor is it some arcane historical oddity; according to Wiki, 'the Jianbi ship locks on the Yangtze are currently handling some 75,000,000 tons each year, and the Li Canal is forecast to reach 100,000,000 tons in the next few years'.

Now that's a serious canal.


But does it have any shopping trollies in it? Can't be a proper canal without shopping trollies.

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Postby Ifreann » Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:50 am

Fartsniffage wrote:
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No, no, no...

For some real fun, we should look to block China's Grand Canal - simultaneously the world's longest artificial canal (over 1700 km / 1100 miles), perhaps the oldest in continuous everyday use (some sections date back to the 5th century BC, though it only became a coherent single unit at the end of the 5th century AD), and the world's longest UNESCO World Heritage site. Nor is it some arcane historical oddity; according to Wiki, 'the Jianbi ship locks on the Yangtze are currently handling some 75,000,000 tons each year, and the Li Canal is forecast to reach 100,000,000 tons in the next few years'.

Now that's a serious canal.


But does it have any shopping trollies in it? Can't be a proper canal without shopping trollies.

That's the canal that shopping trollies come from. Shopping trollies are instinctively drawn to canals because they were all hatched in China's Grand Canal.
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Postby The Archregimancy » Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:51 am

Fartsniffage wrote:
The Archregimancy wrote:
No, no, no...

For some real fun, we should look to block China's Grand Canal - simultaneously the world's longest artificial canal (over 1700 km / 1100 miles), perhaps the oldest in continuous everyday use (some sections date back to the 5th century BC, though it only became a coherent single unit at the end of the 5th century AD), and the world's longest UNESCO World Heritage site. Nor is it some arcane historical oddity; according to Wiki, 'the Jianbi ship locks on the Yangtze are currently handling some 75,000,000 tons each year, and the Li Canal is forecast to reach 100,000,000 tons in the next few years'.

Now that's a serious canal.


But does it have any shopping trollies in it? Can't be a proper canal without shopping trollies.


Does large-scale dumping of untreated liquid acid count? And there are heavy metals as well.

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Postby Glorious Hong Kong » Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:29 am

The Ever Given is finally free. Good grief.

But who's to say something like this won't Ever Happen again?
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Postby Chan Island » Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:52 am

Glorious Hong Kong wrote:The Ever Given is finally free. Good grief.

But who's to say something like this won't Ever Happen again?


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Postby Galloism » Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:54 am

They've reached the Great Bitter Lake. Shortly ships parked in the Great Bitter Lake should be headed south and full operations should resume.

Egypt says they will operate the canal 24 hours to try and clear the backlog.
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Postby Senkaku » Mon Mar 29, 2021 10:05 am

Galloism wrote:They've reached the Great Bitter Lake. Shortly ships parked in the Great Bitter Lake should be headed south and full operations should resume.

Egypt says they will operate the canal 24 hours to try and clear the backlog.

I pray to God a night convoy runs aground in a sandstorm or something lmao I know it would be bad for the economy but it would just be so funny :p

Anyways, glad I can once again be shipped somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst.
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