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Big Wallaby
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by Big Wallaby » Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:37 am
Shorty82 wrote:The other week BW and I went out on the Seven Seas Lagoon on a small sailboat and on our way back to the Poly marina the wind dies completely. We had to flag down a Lake Patrol CM to give us a tow back in as we never would have made it on our own (or at least not in a reasonable amount of time).
You didn't tell them the best part: When the wind died, it was just enough to carry us to the entrance of the Magic Kingdom Watercraft dock. We were watching the Launches and Cruisers have to maneuver around us, and I knew we were inconveniencing them. That's when I really decided to go ahead and get the tow.
hobie16 wrote:You've learned one of the basics of sailing. Don't be in a hurry to get anywhere. There's also the old saying. If it's not blowing, it sucks.
Yeah, already knew that, execpt I would have been okay with the wind sucking us along, too :D:
Wait a second... that sounds dirty...

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by glendalais » Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:51 am
turkeyham wrote:Shorty82, no hiring freeze out here. My friends who are managers said that they are hiring and the upper management is being shift around between the parks. have have seen allot of new hires walk through the parks. Over 100 at least. You might have a hiring freeze, but Disneyland has open location spots. I guess they are hiring for Spring Break and summer locations. ;)
We're hiring a few new people here and there, but most of the New Hires you're seeing are College Programme. A large number of them started recently.
Shorty82 wrote:The other week BW and I went out on the Seven Seas Lagoon on a small sailboat and on our way back to the Poly marina the wind dies completely. We had to flag down a Lake Patrol CM to give us a tow back in as we never would have made it on our own (or at least not in a reasonable amount of time).
Hmm...a Marsupial and a Really Tall Guy on a boat stuck out in the middle of the water.....no wind....limited food supplies....add in a few gratuitous explosions and a completely unrelated love subplot between two lovers at the Polynesian and you have the makings of a Hollywood Hit!
;) :p:
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by BRWombat » Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:11 pm
glendalais wrote:...Hmm...a Marsupial and a Really Tall Guy on a boat stuck out in the middle of the water.....no wind....limited food supplies....add in a few gratuitous explosions and a completely unrelated love subplot between two lovers at the Polynesian and you have the makings of a Hollywood Hit!
;) :p:
Or a really cheesy sitcom.
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip... :D:
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by hobie16 » Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:18 pm
BRWombat wrote:Or a really cheesy sitcom. Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip... :D:
Or,
Love
It's exciting and new
Come aboard
We'll be greeting you
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Shorty82
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by Shorty82 » Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:51 pm
Big Wallaby wrote:You didn't tell them the best part: When the wind died, it was just enough to carry us to the entrance of the Magic Kingdom Watercraft dock. We were watching the Launches and Cruisers have to maneuver around us, and I knew we were inconveniencing them. That's when I really decided to go ahead and get the tow.
I didn't forget, I just couldn't figure out a way to word it so left it out.
glendalais wrote:Hmm...a Marsupial and a Really Tall Guy on a boat stuck out in the middle of the water.....no wind....limited food supplies....add in a few gratuitous explosions and a completely unrelated love subplot between two lovers at the Polynesian and you have the makings of a Hollywood Hit!
;) :p:
Limited food supplies is an understatement. One 20 oz. bottle of soda made up our supplies.
I'm not touching the rest of that comment with a 20 ft pole (nor will I touch BW's last comment either).
Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long.
We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious…
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
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by turkeyham » Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:22 pm
How about the Sesame Street theme song? I can see the characters out there too.

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by mechurchlady » Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:54 pm
Shorty82 wrote:
I'm not touching the rest of that comment with a 20 ft pole (nor will I touch BW's last comment either).
The gentleman doth protest too much, way too much and yep that last BW comment was a bit adult.
Too bad you guys had not planned for the trip. Me and the ladies of SGT would have packed a lunch and had snacks and C-rations stocked up. At least one would have brought a fine merlot and another would have brought some chocolate covered potato chips. I would have had me some bacon cheeseburgers but then again we are ladies and we plan for when men get lost or loose power.
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by Zazu » Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:13 pm
Big Wallaby wrote:Wait a second... that sounds dirty...
I quote the great Dr. Thomas Lehrer of MIT:
"When correctly viewed,
"Everything is lewd.
"I could tell you things about Peter Pan,
"Or the Wizard of Oz (there's a dirty old man)!"
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by TdcOgre » Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:03 pm
Zazu wrote:I quote the great Dr. Thomas Lehrer of MIT:
"When correctly viewed,
"Everything is lewd.
"I could tell you things about Peter Pan,
"Or the Wizard of Oz (there's a dirty old man)!"
One man deserves the credit,
One man deserves the blame,
And nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky is his name.
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by GRUMPY PIRATE » Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:46 pm
boop boop, biddda, badda waddum, chew!
:pirateflaARRRRRRR YA DOIN'?