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Lightfoot ballad helps keep alive memory of Edmund Fitzgerald crew 30 years later
AP ^ | 11/9/05 | Staff

Posted on 11/09/2005 1:31:07 PM PST by Millee

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To: madison10
Compared to Lake Superior, Lake Erie is a duck pond. Superior is VERY cold...always.

I know. But I didn't want anything to do with Erie, much less Superior :)
21 posted on 11/09/2005 1:47:32 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: Millee; Cagey; Larry Lucido
ELAINE: Andrea Doria? Isn't that the one they did the song about?

JERRY: (Correcting her) Edmund Fitzgerald.

ELIANE: I love Edmund Fitzgerald's voice.

JERRY: No, Gordon Lightfoot was the singer. Edmund Fitzgerald was the ship.

GEORGE: (Talking about his would-be apartment) You could fit 15 people in that bathroom..

ELAINE: I think Gordon Lightfoot was the boat.

JERRY: (Sarcastic) Yeah, and it was rammed by the Cat Stevens.

22 posted on 11/09/2005 1:48:56 PM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: MotleyGirl70
Yeah, and it was rammed by the Cat Stevens.

Could still happen!

23 posted on 11/09/2005 1:49:59 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: MikeinIraq

:) We love our lakes, we just don't want to meet them up close and personal.


24 posted on 11/09/2005 1:51:07 PM PST by madison10
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To: cripplecreek
OMG that is waaaaay over the top hilarious!!! Image hosted by Photobucket.comImage hosted by Photobucket.comImage hosted by Photobucket.comImage hosted by Photobucket.com
25 posted on 11/09/2005 1:52:02 PM PST by stm
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To: madison10

LOL

It also started raining in that game and I could have sworn that it was snow until it got down in the stadium.

But by then I had a "few" adult beverages so I wasn't exactly paying close attention :)


26 posted on 11/09/2005 1:52:40 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: Millee

Almost 720 feet I believe.


27 posted on 11/09/2005 1:57:53 PM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: MikeinIraq

I swam in Superior in September and it was plenty cold then.


28 posted on 11/09/2005 1:59:17 PM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: cripplecreek

And my humble entry (the Wretch that is Patrick Fitzgerald):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1511666/posts


29 posted on 11/09/2005 1:59:44 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Let's tear down the observatory so we never get hit by a meteor again!)
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To: cripplecreek

I would believe it.

I can't imagine any of the lakes been especially warm :)


30 posted on 11/09/2005 1:59:57 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: madison10
Compared to Lake Superior, Lake Erie is a duck pond. Superior is VERY cold...always.

Lake Erie in my mind is a river not a lake.

The water does not stay in Erie long enough to be a true lake.

The water in Lake Erie turns over 3 to 4 times a year.

Lake Erie is a slow moving very wide river.

31 posted on 11/09/2005 2:00:44 PM PST by Pontiac (Ignorance of the law is no excuse, ignorance of your rights can be fatal.)
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To: Millee

An old friend of mine had a cousin on board.

Rest in Peace.

32 posted on 11/09/2005 3:55:36 PM PST by raybbr
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To: Millee

Saving for later reading. Thank you.


33 posted on 11/09/2005 3:57:07 PM PST by A knight without armor
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To: Hegewisch Dupa; Millee; cripplecreek
S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald Online

A lot of info on the "Fitz".

34 posted on 11/09/2005 4:29:26 PM PST by raybbr
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To: Millee

My mom was once attacked by Gordon Lightfoot back in 1971. He had to be restrained by three security guys.


35 posted on 11/09/2005 4:31:57 PM PST by Clemenza (In League with the Freemasons, The Bilderbergers, and the Learned Elders of Zion)
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To: raybbr

thanks for passing that along


36 posted on 11/09/2005 4:32:51 PM PST by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: MotleyGirl70

LOL. They showed that episode YESTERDAY.


37 posted on 11/09/2005 4:34:14 PM PST by Clemenza (In League with the Freemasons, The Bilderbergers, and the Learned Elders of Zion)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
Your welcome.

Interesting stuff. I used to know a guy named Dick Race who owned a research vessel. He claimed to have been in on the search for the Fitz. In doing some research on the net I found out he died. His favorite quote was, " ARGH, it went democratic" when he discovered something had gone wrong.

38 posted on 11/09/2005 4:41:37 PM PST by raybbr
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To: raybbr

Do you think it plowed into the bottom, on a wave trough?


39 posted on 11/09/2005 4:51:33 PM PST by patton ("Hard Drive Cemetary" - forthcoming best seller)
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To: raybbr

I prefer Lightfoot's other shipwreck song- "Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle". More fun to play ;)

For those of you who think musicians are not prophetic check out the lyrics to an early 60's Lightfoot tune called "Pride of Man". Spooky.


40 posted on 11/09/2005 5:07:04 PM PST by Old Flat Toad (If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy liberals?)
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