Saipan 1944

[larry marak]

I'm 62, I cruised with my wife 58, her sister 65, a coworker 42, and the woman I walked down the aisle as a father standin at her wedding 38. On the Ovation stage of the Carnival Breeze I did a standup comedy routing with cruise director John Heald, where I was introduced (standing in khaki shorts and a homer simpson "Sugar Daddy" t-shirt as "Dick Little", with my wife "Anita Little" and a "bevy of beauties" in the audience. For the next 12 days I was either known as Dick Little or Sugar Daddy by 4000 guests and the photography crew. By the 10th day people were asking for my autograph and taking photos me up on the top of Mt Etna Sicily. We got stares in the formal dining room, and on the last Elegant Night my wife overheard a man tell his wife "I've seen that guy before with all those women, what has he got??" Carnival is using one of the photos of me surrounded by 4 female companions for an advertising book next year! (Had to sign a release). Every word above is true.

I'm retiring my Homer Simpson Sugar Daddy Shirt.

Next year it will be a black tee-shirt with two Silver Forks with faces beneath the tangs enscribed "May the Forks be With You"