When Winston Churchill after his retirement took a cruise in the Mediterranean and was asked by a bunch of Italian journalists why as an ex-British Prime Minister he had chosen an Italian ship, he replied:
"There are three things I like about being on an Italian cruise ship: first their cuisine is unsurpassed; second their service is superb; and then, in time of emergency, there is none of this nonsense about women and children first."
The Costa Concordia is probably the most expensive thing to go down in Italy since Berlusconi's last hooker. When her captain was asked if he knew where he was going, he replied, "Off course!"
