Comments on: Do They Know It's Christmas

By: LambKnuckles

LambKnuckles — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:45:16 +0000

Yes, John, there is a CHRISTMAS time!!!! WOO HOO!!!!

And CARNIVAL has given us their present already!!! What a gift to get lower prices!!! No fuel charges…

THANK YOU CARNIVAL!!! THANK YOU!!!!

Heidi, Congrats on the EXCELLENT Doctor’s visit!!! You’re a GREAT mom!!!!

And HOORAY for Stephanie!!! I’m so happy to hear that your healing is going well!!! THANK YOU Tony for keeping us going in her absense!!!!

Bless you all!!!
Lambie

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:54:37 +0000

Hi John,

Thanks for the laugh out loud moment!

And thanks for the Oxfam gift ideas. I am sending Donkeys and Fish to all the people I play poker with.

One other thank you I owe you. Thank you for help making our first cruise in Feb 08 on Freedom the best ever.

Doug

By: Darlene

Darlene — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:00:24 +0000

John, thanks for another wonderful blog!

1st, I am also electronically challenged, so you’re in good company.

2nd, Merry Christmas! As a Christian, it is Christmas, and always will be!

3rd, now for my gripe! How can readers DARE to tell you what you should and should not write in YOUR blog!!! I suppose they mean it as “constructive criticism” but this is your blog. When they write their own blog, they can put whatever they want in it.

Anyway, that’s my 2 cents worth for the day. =)

Counting down the days until the Blogger’s cruise!

By: Jim Burke

Jim Burke — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:56:19 +0000

John,

Now that you purchased the toilets, who will supply the toilet paper?
Keep up the humerous jottings.

Jim

By: Nuttycruisegirl

Nuttycruisegirl — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:57:59 +0000

Hi John! Hope you and Heidi enjoy this blessed Christmas season no matter what the silly committee has decided to call it. Just think, next year you will have a new little blessing to share Christmas with! How very exciting for both of you! I love your wit and zest for life that you display on your blog…Please keep it up. People have many channels to go through if they have problems. This blog need not be one of them. Love to you and yours ….Can’t wait to see you on Bloggers in February!

Jennifer

By: Cheryl D.

Cheryl D. — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:22:06 +0000

Hello John & Heidi,
John, I agree with all the other comments that you should not change the blog. The funny commentary is what we love about it! You often handling complaints is because you are a nice person, who genuinely wants everyone who takes a Carnival cruise to have the best possible experience. We all love the blog just the way it is!
Best wishes to Stephanie. Please get well soon. Tony, thank you for stepping in. Heidi, the pictures of you look beautiful (of course). John, the story about hanging the picture was hilarious! My husband has always tuned a deaf ear whenever I ask him to hang anything up. Perhaps this is why.
Looking forward to the Feb. Bloggers’ Cruise,
Cheryl D.

By: Mike Rawicki

Mike Rawicki — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:27:10 +0000

You ignored the first rule of DIY. DON’T do it !!!
As for the tv must be like being back on the splendor on the first cruise. Try hitting it if that doesn’t work a large whisky will solve both problems. Mike

By: mickeyspal

mickeyspal — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:55:08 +0000

John,

Forgot to say “Thanks to Carnival for removing the fuel surcharge.” It would be wonderful if other corporations would follow their lead and reduce the cost of their products by the amount they have increased them to compensate for the price of oil. One can dream.

Your Pal, Myra

By: KathyG

KathyG — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:24:03 +0000

Since when is a private blog a company complaint dept.? I think you already do more than enough to help people. Don’t change your blog.
I wish my husband would just call someone instead of trying DIY!
KathyG

By: mickeyspal

mickeyspal — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:14:16 +0000

Hey, John,

Must be new readers who think this blog is a “help desk.” I’ve been reading since almost the beginning (did go back and read those early ones, as well), and I always have considered your posts to be more or less a day in your life. Granted, it was mostly about onboard experiences, but it’s still your humor I keep coming back for. I just thought it was generous of you to offer your assistance when people seemed unable to get “help” through normal channels…like customer service, etc. Didn’t see it as you taking on total responsiblity for solving everyones’ problems. Anyway, just please keep doing what you do and don’t let the turkeys get you down!

Today’s post is by far one of the funniest yet. I could see you standing in Thingy Desk’s room with the plaster dust raining down as Heidi glared at you from the room on the other side of the now missing wall!!! All the DIY stuff is hilarious.

My two cents on the holiday issue…it’s Christmas and no one is going to make me call it anything else. Like Tom and Jane who also live in Florida, I try to avoid stores who refuse to “advertise” Christmas gifts, trees, decorations, etc. You know there’s a saying something like “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” I believe that if people around the world don’t start speaking out in defense of all we hold dear, the liberals (for want of anything else to call them) are going to make the world so politically correct, we who care will be afraid to leave our homes lest we say the wrong thing and are jailed or exterminated on the spot.

And speaking of standing for something, I read an article this morning about how much President Bush has more than doubled U.S. aid to Africa, especially in the fight against AIDS and malaria, and how African leaders have praised him, yet the Hollywood types who claim to care about the suffering people refuse to acknowledge how much he has done. The article went on to surmise that eventually, our new President elect will be cannonized (or at least awarded a Nobel) for what President Bush has actually accomplished. The news media (joke) in this country has become our worst enemy!

Sorry…got carried away again. I just get so frustrated sometimes!!! (And you started it.)

Okay, so good choices for Christmas presents. And you know what? If you and Heidi are anything like Scott and me, you need nothing, want nothing and have no room to put anything more, so why not give to someone who does have more need than want?!? Hopefully, you’ll start, or help to spread, a trend.

Soooo….Merry Christmas to you, Heidi, Thingy Desk, Stephanie (glad to hear she’s doing well), Dad and Mum, Suze and family, Alan and family, Mr. S.nob, and anyone else I’ve forgotten, and all my blogger family,

Your Pal, Myra