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  • "Love Boat" Goes To The Breakers ... Decrepit Pacific Princess Hulk Awaits Turkish Scrappers

    02/22/2014 7:19:18 PM PST · by DogByte6RER · 30 replies
    Opposite Lock ^ | February 22, 2014 | Opposite Lock
    Love Boat Goes To The Breakers For those of us of a certain age, we remember the cheesy, comedic voyages of the Love Boat as a staple of late 1970s TV. Captain Stubing, Gopher, Doc, Isaac and the blond chick would sleep their way through the passengers, smile and serve drinks. All this happened in a tidy hour format complete with laugh track. Well, the ship that was at the core of the show, the Pacific Princess, has finally sailed its last and is at the wreckers in Turkey. Unfortunately, the Turkish ship breakers are not known for saving furnishings...
  • Love Boat makes its final run to Turkish scrap heap

    08/08/2013 4:22:31 PM PDT · by re_tail20 · 33 replies
    The Chicago Tribune ^ | August 7, 2013 | Reuters
    The MS Pacific, a cruise ship made famous by the popular U.S. 1970s television show "The Love Boat," has sailed its final voyage to a ship-breaking yard on Turkey's Aegean Sea coast, a shipping group said on Wednesday. Called the Pacific Princess when it was on the long-running comedy, the iconic 13,500-tonne, 171-m-long (561-foot-long) vessel will be stripped for its metal and parts, said Ersin Ceviker of the Ship Recyclers' Association of Turkey. Aaron Spelling's "The Love Boat," starring Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain, ran on the U.S. television network ABC from 1977 to 1986. The show was set...
  • Read My Lips (YOU. MUST. VIEW. THIS. VIDEO!!!!)

    02/24/2003 10:53:46 PM PST · by Timesink · 43 replies · 402+ views
    READ MY LIPS (QuickTime, 4.4MB but very worth it.)Alternately, a RealVideo version (300Kbps for me, it may downshift for you).