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SzczerbiakManiac
05-30-2006, 12:37 PM
How's this (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1785108,00.html) for a high creep/ick factor?[snip]
The white ghost ship rolled in the Atlantic swell as the rescue boats approached it 70 nautical miles off Ragged Point, one of the most easterly places on the Caribbean island of Barbados.

The yacht was unmarked, 6 metres (20ft) long, and when Barbadian coastguard officers boarded it, they made a gruesome find. The boat's phantom crew was made up of the desiccated corpses of 11 young men, huddled in two separate piles in the small cabin. Dressed in shorts and colourful jerseys, they had been partially petrified by the salt water, sun and sea breezes of the Atlantic Ocean.
JWBear
05-30-2006, 01:22 PM
Sad.
Not Afraid
05-30-2006, 01:38 PM
WOW! This would make th basis for a great tale. I'm wanting to pick up The Life of Pi again.
Freaky Tiki
05-30-2006, 02:01 PM
Creepy stuff...
alphabassettgrrl
05-30-2006, 04:04 PM
Stuff like this is how the Marie Celeste legend came to be.

Interesting find.
Disneyphile
05-30-2006, 05:45 PM
I really hope they find that Spaniard and put him on a raft and push him out to sea. :mad:
Kevy Baby
05-30-2006, 07:47 PM
Since when is a 20 foot boat a "yacht"?
Disneyphile
05-31-2006, 10:55 AM
Since when is a 20 foot boat a "yacht"?In some countries, it would be. :(
CoasterMatt
05-31-2006, 09:13 PM
SKIPPER!!!!!
:evil:
SzczerbiakManiac
06-01-2006, 08:56 AM
Little Buddy!
Kevy Baby
06-01-2006, 07:36 PM
which brings up the age old question:

Ginger or Mary Anne?
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And I found these interesting facts about Gilligan's Island:

Jayne Mansfield turned down the role of "Ginger"; Carroll O'Connor tested for the role of The Skipper; Dabney Coleman tested for the role of The Professor.

Raquel Welch auditioned for the role of Mary Anne.

Jerry Van Dyke turned down the role of Gilligan.

The first season had the cast using cups that were made from real coconuts. However, they found that the cups were porous and soaked through like they were sweating. Thus in the later seasons, the coconut cups were plastic replicas.