Shouldn't Jonah be beating out Cadence on a Drum?

Yes, the intersection of Duplicity Street & Incontinence Avenue is open again and just in time from ship-to-shore transmissions from the blubbery pirates on the lamest cruise ever not involving Fred Grandy.

Last night was "fifties night" on the ship. Several passengers as well as the entire staff dressed up like greasers, preppies and the life from Happy Days and the like. (I wore a blazer and slacks, which is precisely how I would have dressed in the 1950s were I to have dinner with William F. Buckley).

The striking thing to me was how odd this must seem to the overwhelmingly non-American crew. The waiters and bartenders are mostly from Eastern Europe. You've got to wonder what these people think. The 1950s were not a universally American time. These waiters' grandparents were hiding from Commisars and eating canned cabbage -- if they were lucky -- during the 1950s. Sock-hops and cheese burgers weren't the norm.

That said, Kate O'Beirne had a great idea which we've had a lot of fun with. Shouldn't the NR cruise celebrate a different 1950s? Couldn't we create a Cruise Committee on Un-American Activities?

It be funny, if it were not likely to happen. Although, somehow should Jonah and Kate O'Beirne meet in Davey Jones locker, my heart will go on.

I'm betting the hightlight for the NRO crew of 50s night on the Lug Boat was making all the "ethnic" types stay astern.