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Old 04-10-2012, 08:57 PM
 
Location: Cushing OK
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My genetic contributers were in several places. Mom wasn't born but her dad was living in Los Angeles, her mom was possibly in Texas, though she could have been in Los Angeles by then. Dad was on farm in a small town in Alabama but he was only one.

Me? I was the far off glimmer in the river of entrophy which hadn't happened in this ordered time perception yet.
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Old 04-10-2012, 09:05 PM
 
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It departed Southhampton on its ill-fated voyage exactly 100 years ago today.
Well, my grandfather was alive, but <1 year old, and I was born when he was 59, so I wasn't a gleam in anyone's eye at the time.
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Old 04-10-2012, 09:09 PM
 
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Though I will note the irony that if it hadn't sunk on that voyage, none of us would have ever even heard of it.
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Old 04-11-2012, 08:53 AM
 
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Okay, time to come clean. I pushed the iceberg into that position. I just thought it would be a funny practical joke, the ship would make a hard maneuver to get out of the way and later we'd all just laugh and laugh. I didn't see it getting out of hand. Mea Culpa.
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Old 04-11-2012, 09:57 AM
 
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Okay, time to come clean. I pushed the iceberg into that position. I just thought it would be a funny practical joke, the ship would make a hard maneuver to get out of the way and later we'd all just laugh and laugh. I didn't see it getting out of hand. Mea Culpa.
No worries. The statute of limitations has elapsed.
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Old 04-11-2012, 09:58 AM
 
Location: DFW
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I was a little kid watching a show about the tragedy on TV.. I was very shocked indeed!
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Old 04-11-2012, 10:29 AM
 
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I was a little kid watching a show about the tragedy on TV.. I was very shocked indeed!
Now that you mention it, I must have been 8 or 9. It was terrifying but I loved Kenneth Moore.
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Old 04-11-2012, 12:48 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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Default Where Were You When You Heard the Titanic Sunk?

My Grandpa was born in 1912 and I was the twinkle in his eye.

I do remember when Bob Ballard found the Titanic; I was in elementary school and quickly became obsessed by it (well, at least when He-Man wasn't on TV ).
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Old 04-11-2012, 01:01 PM
 
Location: Parts Unknown, Northern California
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Okay, time to come clean. I pushed the iceberg into that position. I just thought it would be a funny practical joke, the ship would make a hard maneuver to get out of the way and later we'd all just laugh and laugh. I didn't see it getting out of hand. Mea Culpa.
You claim it was a joke, but why should we accept that? Most of us suspect it was the act of Comanche Nationalist terrorists.
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Old 04-11-2012, 01:58 PM
 
Location: On the Ohio River in Western, KY
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I was watching a show on PBS about it when I realised it was real, then I asked my great-grandparents about it, and they both said while they were alive when it happened, they don't remember it 'cause they were only a year old at the time.
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