How many times have you laid awake at night and asked yourself, Could Jack have fit on that floating plank in the middle of the Atlantic as the Titanic slowly sank in the background? Did the zaftig Rose have to hog the whole thing to herself? Could that melodrama conceivably have dragged on for another hour or so, such that we all would have happily drowned ourselves to make it stop?
Well, sleep soundly at last. The intrepid experimenters at the Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters have proved —proved! — that both Jack and Rose could have used that plank to survive the disaster, and gone on to live happily ever after, until they boarded the Andrea Doria, having just celebrated their 40th or so anniversary with a lovely trip to Rome.
You can watch the Myth Busters here, because WordPress sucks and will not permit me to embed an iframe video.
Ellyn
October 9, 2012 at 1:47 PM
Oh, how I tried to convince my daughters that what made Jack the perfect love of Rose’s life is that he was dead. No socks to pick up, no vintage MG up on blocks that he needed to be convinced to sell, no overdrafts due to failure to log an expenditure, no other laundry scattered about, no socks under the couch, no old college friends hanging out to watch the Bears….the list goes on. (after 34 years of marriage it is a ponderous list!) I, of course, grew up in the era of Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet – now that was how to form a young girls expectations for romance!!!
Anthony Sacramone
October 9, 2012 at 2:27 PM
So did your dates generally get grilled about family life expectancy? “Um, just curious, how old were your grandparents when they died…?”
Ellyn
October 9, 2012 at 3:40 PM
They probably should have been.
Luckily my folks did not try to arrange any marriages with older princes.
(And now that I’ve brought up Romeo and Juliet I have that little earworm running about my mind, rather than the dreaded “My Heart….blech” “A rose will bloom, it then will fade….” Ya got that right, Sherlock!