Peace boats are all the rage these days. (Get it?)
So I says to myself I says, “Patrick, you gots to get in on all this peace, love, and tolerance. You know, the kind of peace, love, and tolerance that is defined as in your face provocation and incitement to violence. That’s my kind of peace, love, and tolerance.”
So I was thinking. Why can’t we have our own peace boat? Or our own flotilla of peace? We could rent some of those party boats, you know the kind used for booze cruises, load them up with beer, wine, pulled pork, and rosaries and cruise right on in the port of Mecca. (Yes I know.)
I am sure that our Muslim brothers and sisters wouldn’t mind. I mean, they have been going on all week how any civilized country needs to treat interlopers with respect and such so I am sure they won’t mind.
Why, of course they won’t mind. When we come cruising down the Red Sea in the SS. Lepanto, I am sure they will be so excited they will break out the belly dancers. Which is great, because I understand the peace-loving Jews (with guns) they we have aboard just loves them some belly dancers.
Oh, look! They are so excited to see us they have broken out the fireworks….
Isn’t peace fun?!?
For our next peace boat, we are going to load up a boat filled with angry Arizonans and some out of work Guatemalans and cruise right into Guadalajara. Its all good! Who is bringing the salsa and chips?
June 7, 2010 at 6:34 am
Good heavens Pat. SS Lepanto? That might be the funniest thing I have ever read on your blog. Lepanto, rosaries, Mary, pulled pork, and beer/wine in the "port of Mecca." Classic.
June 7, 2010 at 11:57 am
Thank you for that Monday morning visual. I might even be able to skip my coffee now and I've got a smile on my face.
June 7, 2010 at 1:31 pm
And, if The Peace Boat is one of those amphibious jobs, it can roll all the way to Mecca gathering groupies along the way! Great idea, Pat
June 7, 2010 at 4:46 pm
SS Lepanto is an especially fitting name (could we also have the SS Tours-Poitiers?), given the name of the last ship sent to run the blockade. I'm just a little sad that it wasn't intercepted by the INS John-Deer or the INS Caterpillar.
June 7, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Yeeaahhh boy! Squeal lak uh pig! (with banjo music played over loud speakers as we roll on into Mecca) I love the smell of bacon in the morning. Smells like victory!
Now pass them ham hocks!
June 7, 2010 at 7:27 pm
My bad, mixed my movies.
Alliteration, just one other service I can offer.
June 9, 2010 at 2:56 am
Actually, peace ships/flotillas are not a new idea. In 1916 Henry Ford (yes, THE Henry Ford) organized an expedition of prominent pacifists to Europe in hopes that they could serve as mediators in the Great War (World War I to you and me) and get the Germans, Brits and everyone else to make nice. Ford's goal was to "get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas." Needless to say, he didn't succeed; and he was widely ridiculed by the MSM of the time. Read about it at this link:
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1958/2/1958_2_65.shtml
Elaine