ADMIT IT:

THE WHOLE COUNTRY WAS FASCINATED BY THAT CRUISE SHIP

MAINLY BECAUSE WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT POOP (OR DEATH, SEX AND RACE RIOTS)

BUT HERE IT WAS -- AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT POOP

"A FLOATING PETRI DISH" THEY SAID

SEWAGE SLOSHING IN THE HALLS!

SEWAGE RUNNING DOWN THE WALLS!

PEOPLE POOPING IN PLASTIC BAGS!

THE STENCH THAT NEVER WENT AWAY!

I'D SUGGEST A BETTER ALTERNATIVE:

WE HAVE "TALK ABOUT POOP MONTH" IN JULY OR AUGUST WHEN THE KIDS ARE BORED

WE CAN HAVE POOP FESTIVALS, MAKE TURD SCULPTURES, EVEN BRING OUT OUR FAVORITE POOPS FOR A PARADE

WHO'S WITH ME?

At some point during the ordeal urine and feces streamed in the halls and down walls after toilet facilities failed, soaking the mattress of a friend of his who was sleeping in a hallway, said Larry Poret.

Poret said toilets on the ship worked on and off, but were too inconsistent to trust.

He said waste tipped out of some commodes and sloshed across floors as the ship listed to the side.

"It runs down the walls from one floor to the next. It's running out of somebody's bathroom out into the hallway all the way across," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/14/travel/cruise-ship-fire/?hpt=hp_c2

During the tow back to the United States, "the vessel listed sharply several times, causing human waste to spill out of non-functioning toilets, flood across the Vessel's floors and halls, and drip down the Vessel's walls," it says.

"Plaintiff was forced to endure unbearable and horrendous odors on the filthy and disabled Vessel, and wade through human feces in order to reach food lines where the wait was counted in hours, only to receive rations of spoiled food. Plaintiff was forced to subsist for days in a floating toilet, a floating Petri dish, a floating hell."

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/travel/cruis...suit/index.html?iid=article_sidebar