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DeputyDog
11-10-2015, 10:22 AM
Today is also the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Chicken Dinner
11-10-2015, 10:29 AM
Cool tune. The Mrs. And I love to torment the kids by belting it out at top volume when it comes on the car radio.
LJ3
11-10-2015, 10:45 AM
No disrespect to the men lost at sea. But I hate that damn song. It's not a song, it's a really bad poem that should have never seen the airwaves.

I can't help but wonder how it must feel to know "this is it" well before you actually meet your maker. Most of me thinks I'd not fare well in such a situation. Part of me thinks I may approach it with grace. Most of me thinks I'd freak out like a squirrel on crack.
Chicken Dinner
11-10-2015, 10:45 AM
Curmudgeon!
LJ3
11-10-2015, 10:48 AM
Posthole's not awake yet. Picking up his slack and what not.
Chicken Dinner
11-10-2015, 11:12 AM
May you be stuck with a Gordon Lightfoot earworm for the rest of the day. Come on, you can do it.

The legends all say they would have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put 15 more miles behind her...
quercus alba
11-10-2015, 11:16 AM
Don't be hating on a Canadian national treasure, you'll have all the Canadian hockey players boycotting the NHL
jb
11-10-2015, 12:50 PM
Remember it well, been to Whitefish Point a number of times, beautiful part of the UP.
I enjoy the song also, did you know they changed the words in one part of the song so it didn't point to the loose hatch cover, that was done because the widow of the deck hand responsible for the securing of the hatch cover complained that it was never proven that that was the cause of the sinking.
Also today is the 240th Birthday of the US Marine Corp. OOH Rah you Jar Heads.
Chicken Dinner
11-10-2015, 04:37 PM
Interesting read: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/11/10/legend-lives-on-40-years-later-sinking-edmund-fitzgerald-great-lakes-mystery.html?intcmp=hpbt4
BarryBobPosthole
11-10-2015, 04:51 PM
Neat stuff! I've always liked that song. And like a bunch of lightfoot songs, its in Am.

BKB
airbud7
11-10-2015, 05:18 PM
Interesting read: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/11/10/legend-lives-on-40-years-later-sinking-edmund-fitzgerald-great-lakes-mystery.html?intcmp=hpbt4

Yea CD that^ was very interesting...
Nandy
11-10-2015, 07:52 PM
No disrespect to the men lost at sea. But I hate that damn song. It's not a song, it's a really bad poem that should have never seen the airwaves.

I lasted 2 min and some change and I had to close the youtube... But, to each its own...

Before moving to continental usa I never, ever thought a lake could behave like these lakes. I once was in Jocassee when we had one of those "spring" blown out and Lord it was terrible, i cant image what the crew went thru on those last minutes...