Anyone of my generation knows better than to get on a small fishing boat for a short cruise because there's always chance that it will prove a fateful trip and the tiny craft will be tossed up on an uncharted island.
But Frank Johnson, the city's zoning kingpin, and Don Soucy, who heads the Little League empire on Mix Street, are either a little too old or the Tao of Gilligan didn't sink in.
The pair chartered a boat yesterday to go fishing out on Long Island Sound.
Johnson said he caught a couple of modest-sized fish - which proves he's no fisherman, since ALL fish are big - but Soucy came up with a 45-pound sea bass that's "enough meat for a month."
There were four out-of-towners aboard as well, but who cares about them?
The whole thing, though, does raise the question of what would have happened if the vessel had run up onto an unnoticed Thimble Island and the passengers and crew had been left to their own wits to survive.
Would Johnson have been Gilligan or the Professor? Would Soucy be the Skipper or Mr. Howell? And who would have been Ginger or Mary Ann? Maybe that last question is best not asked.
In any case, I'm guessing that a modern-day shipwreck with these guys aboard would have been more like "Lost" than "Gilligan's Island."
Or perhaps it would have turned out like a real-life game of "Survivor" with only one guy standing when the Coast Guard finally showed up to rescue them. Would Soucy or Johnson wind up on top?
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