Titanic

[colly]

There's a poem on that theme:

http://www.angelfire.com/yt/anneblair/lyrics50.htm

I heard the poet reading it on Radio 4 at a festival. He got the audience joining in for the last chorus.

Thanks. Never seen that before. Moving in strange kind of way.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Thanks. Never seen that before. Moving in strange kind of way.

Quite! It is nice to see it all from another (albeit fictitious) view point.

 

[snorri]

I'm reminded of the young polar bear that drifted down alone on an iceberg to an island off the north coast of Iceland. They shot it, it's in the Husavik museum now, stuffed.

 

[Saddle bum]

There is conjecture that if the Titanic hit the iceberg full-on instead of trying to avoid it, only the front area would have been crumpled up and the watertight bulkheads would have retained their integrity.

I am researching whether a distant relative went down with it.

 

[green1]

The first passenger vessel to send an SOS. Radio operator told "you might as well, you might never get another chance".

She wasn't. The first ship to use SOS was the Cunard Liner Slavonia in 1909. They were sending the Marconi distress signal CQD (means All Stations : Distress) when the assistant suggested they also start sending out the SOS signal which became the standard after the sinking.

 

[machew]

Curse you all, I thought that the titanic was just a film

 

[Haitch]

Can't help thinking that all this Titanic overkill is just a dry run, as it were, for the commemoration of Franz Ferdinand's assassination nearly 100 years ago.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

This feels quite wrong given that today is the actual 100th anniversary but those who are fed up of all the Titanic coverage might appreciate this spoof trailer:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJxj1mou03M&feature=player_embedded

 

[Arch]

I like the random explosions!