Re: The Flat Earth?
Bob Casanova (cas@ops1.bwi.wec.com)
Mon, 1 May 1995 16:17:52 GMT
In article <1995Apr30.145323.16530@rosevax.rosemount.com> grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:
>From: grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
>Subject: Re: The Flat Earth?
>Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 14:53:23 GMT
>Robert Roosen (roosen@crash.cts.com) wrote:
>: Andrew Skolnick (skolnick@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>: : Sorry Robert, but you got your facts wrong. Those two ships didn't fall
>: : off the edge of the earth. They disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.
>: Wow. So once again a theory was proven even though the data were
>: incorrect.
>: Of course, if people would stop calling it the Bermuda Triangle
>: and start calling it the Sargasso Sea again, the mystery of the missing
>: ships would be explained.
>There is no mystery. Ships don't go missing in the Bermuda Triangle
>(Sargasso Sea, if you prefer) any more frequently than they do anywhere
>else. Everybody think thier little chunk of water is particularly dangerous
>and mysterious:
> The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down,
> of the big lake they called Gitchegoomee.
> The lake it is said never gives up its dead,
> when the winds of November come early.
Actually, "when the skies of November turn gloomy.", but who's counting...
> -- Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald"
>--
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