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To: TexasGator

Too easy. Titanic was sailed into upper latitudes meaning known ice fields to speed up her arrival in New York. She was sailing at 22 1/2 knots, above her normal cruising speed.

The lookouts who spotted the iceberg too late had no binoculars because these were locked in a chest in the crow’s nest. The holder of the key had missed sailing on the Titanic.

That key just sold at auction for $500,000.

Oh yes, and the loss of all those influential plutocrats hastened the passing of the Federal income tax just a year later.

And the lookouts’ alarm was delayed because they were too busy ogling Kate Winslet.

;^)


27 posted on 09/16/2020 8:14:06 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: elcid1970
Oh stop that!

No rational posts allowed on this thread.

Oh yes...and Kate...

32 posted on 09/16/2020 8:19:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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