Like most people, you will know of Howie Mandell, the host of Deal or No Deal, as a genial soul, with his jaunty humour and polished head. So you may be surprised to learn that I don’t like him and on my list of thing’s and people I don’t like he is just behind the ulcers you get in the inside of your mouth and higher up on the list then hemorrhoids.

This is because when he sailed on the Carnival Freedom last year I asked him for an autograph and he told me to “bugger off”.

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Happy Fourth Of July?……………………..not for some it wasn’t.

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Due to the fact that our Interactive TV system is about as active as dead Sloth people have not seen my shows etc and therefore many have no clue who I am…………….and I hate that. I worked past quite a few guests last night and said hello and although most replied with a cheery Hello, you could tell some had no clue who I was.

I could have been an officer, an electrician or the aerobics instructor……………………….ok………………that was stupid………..of course I could never be an electrician.
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After a little delay I am proud to post an interview with one of the most recognizable faces in travel………..Samantha Brown.

Here are her answers to my questions which I know you will all enjoy.
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Here we are in Monte Carlo. For the first ever time a Carnival Cruise Lines vessel sits among the rich and tanned’s playboy palaces known as Super Yachts. These are normally the center of the tourists’ attention but today all eyes are on the Carnival Splendor. 

However, there are some enormous buggers in the harbor including one called Octopus which looks like something a James Bond villain would be planning to conquer the world from. (more…)

When I was 18 years of age and wondering what to do with my life there were three careers that I truly considered.

First of all I wanted to be a Vet, however as I have mentioned to you before I was and still am carrying a rather small amount of brain cells and therefore was basically too thick to even think about trying to understand the principles of curing the world of sick animals…………..plus ……….after consideration……..I didn’t really relish the thought of traipsing across a field in the freezing cold snow of winter knowing the only way my hands were going to get warm was after they had been inserted into Daisy the Heffers bottom.

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Good Evevning Everyone

I am so sorry that I didn’t have the time to write a full blog today. I will however write on tomorrow as usual. Instead I hope you enjoy these three brief videos from tonight’s welcome aboard show.

Goodnight
Your friends
John and Heidi
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Childhood memories are usually dominated by cloudless summer days, scraped knees from falling of your bike and burning ants alive using a magnifying glass and the sun. Mine are also dominated by the mornings when I’d come downstairs to find my school report had arrived.

Throughout the term I’d assured my parents that I’d been working hard, and that the small explosion in the Chemistry Lab had nothing to do with me. But there, in the report, was solid, irrefutable proof that I hadn’t been working hard at all.

Even today, 30 years later, I can recite, verbatim, the comments from a Math teacher Mr. Sonnen. “Usually I would write Could Do Better but unfortunately Mr and Mrs. Heald…I do not think that this will be possible.

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