What Floats Your Boat?

The Urban Dictionary describes "what floats your boat" to mean whatever "soothes your soul" or whatever " works best" or "whatever you feel like doing." In other words, the activity keeps your boat on even keel even in choppy seas.

Even the Economist used an analogy by Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, who once compared financial markets to a sea that was prone to occasional storms. It was better, he said, "better to be on a big ship when the waters got choppy."

I began to think about what floats my boat through stormy seas and happened upon some news for boats that you may have missed recently. There is a very important Archaeological dig happening as we speak in Cairo. They have begun to excavate a 4,500-year-old wooden boat believed to belong to the Pharaoh Khufu who founded the 4^th Dynasty in 2680 B.C. Pharaoh Khufu ruled Egypt for 23 years.

It is believed that the boat was the one that carried the pharaoh into the afterlife and has been hidden for 4,500 years. The first boat from the Dynasty was discovered in 1954 and has been reassembled and is housed in a specially built museum near the Great Pyramid.

Unless you were anywhere near Lake Sacajawea Park in the State of Washington, you may have missed the Cardboard Boat Regatta that took place during the Go 4th Festival in July. You can read about it here.

The Cardboard Boat Regatta challenge was to build a human-powered boat made completely of corrugated cardboard. It had to be capable of competing in a 200-yard course. Sounds like these cardboard boats really did float.

What floats my boat? I have to admit that it "floats" a whole lot better when the waters are calm. Anything that causes a riff or a wave that tips my boat causes me to go overboard. I have said it before, I'll say it again, sometimes Faith is the only floatation device you need to stay afloat.

Speaking of faith, did you hear the joke about Noah?

"Who was the greatest financier in the Bible?" Answer: Noah - he was floating his stock while everyone else was in liquidation." (Courtesy of the Smithville Church in Tennessee)

It's only funny if you don't have any money in the Stock Market these days.

Source:

http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/archaeology/egypt-to-restore-ancient-boat-found-near-pyramid-dp3.html

http://tdn.com/news/local/article_68ee2fb0-a1e5-11e0-a15e-001cc4c03286.html