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re: 'If all goes well...' Titanic victim's letter expected to sell for thousands
Posted on 10/20/17 at 2:16 pm to LucasP
Posted on 10/20/17 at 2:16 pm to LucasP
The size of the boat was greatly exaggerated. This picture was taken shortly after a man by the name of Cussler successfully Raise(d) the Titanic.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 2:20 pm to PsychTiger
There's been so much misinformation put out since the movie that we'll probably never know the real truth behind the "Titanic". There probably was a boat at some point, whether that was a false flag or some other paramilitary operation, there's no way of knowing.
All I'm pointing out is that life was a lot simpler in 1996 when nobody had ever heard of this bullshite, now everyone thinks they're a historian.
All I'm pointing out is that life was a lot simpler in 1996 when nobody had ever heard of this bullshite, now everyone thinks they're a historian.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 2:27 pm to slackster
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the Titanic sinking is one of the most famous things to ever happen in the history of famous things that have happened
For a few short years, till RMS Lusitania sunk by U-boat in 1915. Titanic held its beer from then on till Cameron's movie flipped the script.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 2:32 pm to LucasP
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Man it's crazy how a slightly above average movie can make the population care about a sunk ship that nobody had ever heard of before the nineties.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 2:35 pm to LucasP
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. We were busy doing Reaganomics and cocaine. Glorious days.
When John Delorian ruled the world.
Good times, baw.
And yes, thats a double entendres/ Florida Evans reference.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 2:38 pm to 19
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When John Delorian ruled the world.
Was he the guy who made the car capable of traveling through time?
Posted on 10/20/17 at 2:41 pm to PsychTiger
DMC CEO....snorted all the profits.
He was the Antichrist of Lee Iococca.
I bet St. Peter let Henry Ford himself cast old JD down amongst the sodomites personally, and upon arrival.
He was the Antichrist of Lee Iococca.
I bet St. Peter let Henry Ford himself cast old JD down amongst the sodomites personally, and upon arrival.
This post was edited on 10/20/17 at 2:50 pm
Posted on 10/20/17 at 2:42 pm to 19
Oh, and no.
Flux capacitor and Mr. Fusion were aftermarket upgrades.
Flux capacitor and Mr. Fusion were aftermarket upgrades.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 2:49 pm to 19
quote:Actually quite the opposite. They intentionally chose the name "Titanic" to appeal to the masses' interest in that tragic event. That was flat out sorry, and why I refused to watch it. They used the deaths of 1,500 people just to sell movie tickets to their fictional love story. If it was named anything else, nowhere near as many people would have seen it.
till Cameron's movie flipped the script.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 2:54 pm to Lou
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If it was named anything else, nowhere near as many people would have seen it.
like what? sinking ship?
Posted on 10/20/17 at 2:56 pm to sweetwaterbilly
His body was long gone. Even his clothes. Likely found the note mixed in with part of some shoes and other non-organic clothing materials.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:00 pm to MorbidTheClown
quote:No I'm not feeling that. How about "The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent"
like what? sinking ship?
Oh wait, that one is already taken.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:01 pm to slackster
quote:Was thinking the same, probably LucasP's best "get" I can recall.
Shirley you've been around long enough to understand LucasP's shtick, no?
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:10 pm to sweetwaterbilly
Very likely taken from the drowned body of the man recovered within a day or two of the sinking.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:14 pm to 19
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Anyone else heard this? True? BS?
I had not previously heard this story, but a couple of thoughts immediately come to mind...
1) It seems like there wouldn't only be one key to the Crow's Nest equipment locker.
2) If there was only one key, and they were unable/unwilling to force the lock, you'd think the world's largest passenger liner would have an extra pair of binoculars laying around somewhere.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:17 pm to LucasP
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Yeah it seems that way to you because you're probably too young to remember before 1997. But way back then, we didn't give a frick about the Titanic.
Yeah, that's not true. Just because you never heard about it doesn't mean everyone else on the planet isn't smarter than you.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:17 pm to PsychTiger
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This picture was taken shortly after a man by the name of Cussler successfully Raise(d) the Titanic.
I'm pretty sure Dirk Pitt raised the Titanic. Clive Cussler just wrote the book about his exploits.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 4:25 pm to slackster
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Shirley you've been around long enough to understand LucasP's shtick, no?
I think he might be retarded. The tiger, I mean
Posted on 10/20/17 at 5:12 pm to White Roach
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had not previously heard this story, but a couple of thoughts immediately come to mind...
1) It seems like there wouldn't only be one key to the Crow's Nest equipment locker.
2) If there was only one key, and they were unable/unwilling to force the lock, you'd think the world's largest passenger liner would have an extra pair of binoculars laying around somewhere.
And your logic is not flawed.
My assumptions when I first read it: 1) of course there were other pairs of binocs on board, and he made do with them. I mean, how silly.
2) locking the binocs up suggests they were too valuable (powerful/important/pricey) to be risked hauling up and down the mast. NOT to be entrusted to men not trained to handle them properly. Since such steps were taken to protect them, logical they were the only pair capable of that ???x magnification on board; no back-up of equal power was deemed necessary, cost-effective, or both.
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