Mario

I've read that you can play Mario on certain VS flights.. is it on flights with v-port?! *excited*

IFE guide is Here Games are on v-port but also on Arcadia and Oddysey. You should be able to match your route to a plane type which will give you your chances of which system you will get. Not sure about Mario, as I am not into computer games. Presumably it is some sort of game involving hair dressers?

Presumably it is some sort of game involving hair dressers?

Spot on

[HighFlyer]

Its Super Mario World, but i cant for the life of me recall if its on Odyssey or V.Port, or both. I'm guessing its on V.Port as i recall playing it on one of my flights fairly recently.

Still doesn't beat Centipede on SQ's Wiseman IFE!

Jeremy - Mario and Luigi are actually (allegedly) Plumbers

Thanks,
Sarah

I hope it's on V.Port! I LOVED that game when I was younger!

Originally posted by HighFlyer


Jeremy - Mario and Luigi are actually (allegedly) Plumbers

Are you sure? If it's about plumbers why is the game not called Phil and Del? What do you have to do, perform various repairs using olives and compression joints with out exposing too much of your bottom clevage?

Jeremy

[Neil]

I hope for your sake Jeremy you are joking[ii], surely you have heard of Mario Brothers? there are adverts for the flaming thing everytime I turn on the tv[:(!], it, as with all computers games gets very addictive, but is total fiction (although 2 plumbers running around doing weird/wacky things and everything inbetween without actually doing any plumbing sounds strangly familiar[:w])

[HighFlyer]

Yes i am sure, its written in the book that came with the game!

Although the overalls and the number of pipes in the game should also give it away

Thanks,
Sarah

[Decker]

Oooh Attitude - cue the Eazy-E quips...

Congratulations!

[Neil]

Originally posted by Decker
Oooh Attitude - cue the Eazy-E quips...

Congratulations!

[:I]

Originally posted by Attitude23
I hope for your sake Jeremy you are joking[ii]

When you can tell me the difference between larboard and port and you can pronounce futtock correctly, then I will go and learn what Mario the Plumber is all about. Deal?

Off to watch "The Horn" now - a rip roaring tale of deringdo with a few sizzling gypsies thrown in.

[Neil]

port - An alcoholic beverage

larboard - the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone facing the bow or nose

simple [:w]... its a deal, I so will find out the difference between the two (logging off to call some ship type person who will explain the diffence because my computer says they are both the same[?])

Conversation taken to PM as it is rather OT. With apologies for the interuption, let me return you to Mario....

im sure this game was on oddessey when i went to orlando[:?]

Originally posted by sailor99
Conversation taken to PM as it is rather OT. With apologies for the interuption, let me return you to Mario....

But now I'm curious... Being of slight nautical persuasion but left wondering if larboard actually exists or is a product of your fancy new spell checker.

I always remembers me ports from me starboards from the chitty chitty bang bang song:

[:w]Port out, Starboard home, POSH is the life for me[:w]
Which I have always been told was the orgins of the word Posh, becuase the rich people alway wanted Cabins facing land (Africa) on their cruises to the orient.

Originally posted by PVGSLF
Which I have always been told was the orgins of the word Posh, becuase the rich people alway wanted Cabins facing land (Africa) on their cruises to the orient.

No evidence for that etymology, unfortunately. The word most likely has a Romany derivation.

Oh, and larboard is a real term for the nautical left, but was abandoned in the 1840s by the navy in favour of port since it was too easy to mistake larboard (a Middle English term) for starboard.

BC

[:w]Port out, Starboard home, POSH is the life for me[:w]
Which I have always been told was the orgins of the word Posh, becuase the rich people alway wanted Cabins facing land (Africa) on their cruises to the orient.

True. It was a ticket stamping first introduced by P&O many many years ago, for the reason you say.

The etymology is interesting. Employees of Peninsula and Eastern claimed never to have heard of the term. However a ticket was found, now in Greenwich, with P.O.S.H. on it. So that one is unclear. However the original etymology I understand is Romany, as you say, where it was a suffix added to monetary words. Thus it came into English meaning 'moneyed' but it was only in slang use in the lowest of classes, so this doesn't fully explain its transit into common use with a developed meaning. I like to think that it developed into the modern usage following P&E's adoption of the term to indicate the placing of cabins - one of the first examples of an advertising slogan (of sorts) passing into common usage. Just one problem: The Port side outbound and the Starboard side inbound wouldn't necessarily be the best cabins because of the winds blow from totally opposite directions in the Arabian seas during different times of year.

I'm impressed with your knowledge of larboard, and your dates are correct. It is actually a corruption the French of 'babord'- rather ironic really given who the English Navy was fighting at the time.

[mitchja]

To bring this back on topic, Super Mario is listed in the IFE section of the VS Web site

Regards

[Neil]

Aren't you going to quiz them on Futtock then Jeremy? Even I got Larboard bit[|:)], can Blackcat really amaze you?;)

Neil:)

[mitchja]

Guys can we please keep this on topic or start another thread......

Regards

Umm, there hasn't been an OT post on the thread for 2 weeks. So the value of it staying OT is.....

The topic is still losely related to IFE.
We'll all know what Larboard means it it ever comes up on who wants to be a millionaire. [:o)]