Suez Canal BLOCKED

[HitRed]

[saxitoxin]

Did you have to learn "Low Bridge" in elementary school music? I hated that song but the lyrics won't get out of my head.

[Dukasaur]

If you wanna know your neighbour....
You wanna know your pal...

[jusplay4fun]

Why does Sackett have an image for a Chess Knight and then talk of dice? Is this a new game, combining the two?

BTW: I have read that Risk combines the randomness of dice with the strategy of Chess. Is this the idea. I am aware of the TV Western called "Have Fun will Travel."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Gun_ ... ill_Travel

OK, I read at the link above and this begins to make sense, BUT dice and Chess are still .....confusing.....and non sequitur

Paladin gives out a business card imprinted with "Have Gun Will Travel" and an engraving of a white knight chess piece, which evokes the proverbial white knight and the knight in shining armor. A closeup of this card is used as a title card between scenes in the program.

ALSO:
When out working, Paladin changes into all-black Western-style clothing. His primary weapon is a custom-made, first-generation .45 caliber Colt Single Action Army Cavalry Model revolver[10] with an unusual rifled barrel, carried in a black leather holster (with a platinum chess knight symbol facing the rear), hanging from a black leather gunbelt.

The occurring problem down the road are this Ultra ships which can carry 18,000+ containers might be too big for the Suez to handle. They have such a large profile that the 30+ mph winds that this ship encountered would make it difficult to maneuver even with a port pilot on board and visibility if the sands pick up.

[jusplay4fun]

NOW that the ship is afloat, Saxi can change the TITLE, as he is prone to do.

[Sackett58]

Why does Sackett have an image for a Chess Knight and then talk of dice? Is this a new game, combining the two?

BTW: I have read that Risk combines the randomness of dice with the strategy of Chess. Is this the idea. I am aware of the TV Western called "Have Fun will Travel."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Gun_ ... ill_Travel

OK, I read at the link above and this begins to make sense, BUT dice and Chess are still .....confusing.....and non sequitur

Paladin gives out a business card imprinted with "Have Gun Will Travel" and an engraving of a white knight chess piece, which evokes the proverbial white knight and the knight in shining armor. A closeup of this card is used as a title card between scenes in the program.

ALSO:
When out working, Paladin changes into all-black Western-style clothing. His primary weapon is a custom-made, first-generation .45 caliber Colt Single Action Army Cavalry Model revolver[10] with an unusual rifled barrel, carried in a black leather holster (with a platinum chess knight symbol facing the rear), hanging from a black leather gunbelt.

The occurring problem down the road are this Ultra ships which can carry 18,000+ containers might be too big for the Suez to handle. They have such a large profile that the 30+ mph winds that this ship encountered would make it difficult to maneuver even with a port pilot on board and visibility if the sands pick up.

I am confusing, maybe because I am a Pisces(Pisces are continually pulled in 2 different directions). Maybe I was going for a kinder gentler Paladin. Then again Paladin(played by Richard Boone) was one of the first anti-heroes on TV. A hired gun who had a code of ethics. 24 episodes were written by Gene Roddenberry of Star Trek fame.

[jusplay4fun]

Now the Suez Canal is OPEN:

Suez Canal reopens after Ever Given cargo ship successfully refloated
Traffic resumed through the crucial waterway Monday after days of intense salvage efforts to free the Ever Given.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/suez ... t-n1262299

We can now close this thread. Crises OVER; let the lawsuits begin.

Egypt May Seek $1 Billion in Damages for Suez Canal Crisis
By Tarek El-Tablawy and Mirette Magdy
April 1, 2021, 4:13 AM EDT Updated on April 1, 2021, 6:24 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... nal-crisis