Fearing Its Ships Aren't Endowed with Enough Fun, Carnival Is Installing More Adult Games and Bars

In an effort to bring vast new meaning to its "Fun Ship" promise, Carnival Cruises has announced what appear to be nearly a score of novel additions to its program of games, comedy acts, light shows, multi-media projections in theaters, new bars of every sort, hamburger stands, and non-food-related dining facilities (there will even be a "comedy brunch" served in one of them). These will be phased in on no fewer than fourteen Carnival ships, and the character of these frantic entertainments is captured in a paragraph of description appearing yesterday on Travel Pulse ( www.travelpulse.com ). According to that source, passengers will henceforth be able to participate in:

Sorry Sliders, which involves a giant shuffleboard court; Simon Flash, where two teams of four guests wear giant light-up color boxes and shuffle themselves to repeat a color sequence; Yahtzee Bowling, with a giant ball and bowling pins; [and] Operation, which is set up like a skee-ball board where contestants try to get the balls into different slots on the patient's body ...

So that no one can henceforth fail to understand the hoped-for atmosphere on board the Carnival ships equipped with these fun items, it is pointed out that there will even be bar installed in the library of each ship (although there will also be some books in bookcases). Engrossed in War and Peace, you'll be able to order a banana daiquiri from the bartender.