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(Gloucester Times) Misc Twenty years ago six fishermen died so we could have one of the most overused metaphors of our generation   (gloucestertimes.com) divider line 111
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2011-10-29 07:58:36 PM
The book is one of my favorites. Thanks, submitter for finding this.
 
2011-10-29 08:00:38 PM
"It's raining men"?
 
2011-10-29 08:13:46 PM
So long and thanks for all the fish?
 
2011-10-29 08:16:44 PM
Don't go swimming for an hour after you eat?
 
2011-10-29 08:19:07 PM
"Hold my beer and watch this"?


//Jesus Christ...20 years?
 
2011-10-29 09:59:19 PM
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?
 
2011-10-29 10:59:22 PM
"We're going to need a bigger boat."
 
2011-10-29 11:09:09 PM
Arrr?
 
2011-10-29 11:13:30 PM
CitizenTed: "It's raining men"?

cretinbob: "Hold my beer and watch this"?


//Jesus Christ...20 years?


The Rev. Numbers: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?

shanrick: "We're going to need a bigger boat."

gopher321: Arrr?

Thank you all... The laughter you caused me will surely pave my way to perdition.
 
2011-10-29 11:13:39 PM
Hey...none of those guys look like George Clooney...what gives?
 
2011-10-29 11:14:52 PM
THEY THAT GO DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

Psalms, 107:23-30, KJV
 
2011-10-29 11:15:03 PM
Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!
 
2011-10-29 11:15:31 PM
I agree subby. Some radio guy referred to a football game the other day as a 'perfect storm,' and I thought 'People died that day, have a little decorum.'
 
2011-10-29 11:15:39 PM
cretinbob: "Hold my beer and watch this?

famous last words, quickly followed by..

"I'm doin' it, I'm doin' it!
 
2011-10-29 11:15:57 PM
I'm guessing it's a perfect storm?
/Site's farked for mobile, I honestly have no idea what it is
 
2011-10-29 11:16:16 PM
Houston, we have a problem...
 
2011-10-29 11:16:28 PM
 
2011-10-29 11:16:31 PM
The Rev. Numbers: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?

That's a great song. I love Edmund Fitzgerald's voice.
 
2011-10-29 11:17:33 PM
We're getting the band back together!
 
2011-10-29 11:20:16 PM
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!
 
2011-10-29 11:20:20 PM
It all depends on what the meaning of "is" is...
 
2011-10-29 11:21:35 PM
Rector? Damn near killed her!
 
2011-10-29 11:23:25 PM
Come alll ye bold sea men
Where ever you're bound...
 
2011-10-29 11:24:32 PM
Loose lips sink ships.
 
2011-10-29 11:26:37 PM
Call me, Ishmael!
 
2011-10-29 11:26:46 PM
Hector Remarkable: The Rev. Numbers: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?

That's a great song. I love Edmund Fitzgerald's voice.


Candygram4Mongo: We're getting the band back together!

Love it!
"Edmund Fitzgerald's my name, and I served on the Danville train"
 
2011-10-29 11:28:05 PM
Has anyone else noticed that many news organizations are pay sites now?

I can't read it because I am not a subscriber.
 
2011-10-29 11:28:12 PM
i291.photobucket.com
Haz a sad....
 
2011-10-29 11:28:38 PM
Candygram4Mongo: Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!

Dude! We need badgers.

Oh. He said badges. All right then... carry on
 
2011-10-29 11:29:22 PM
Hector Remarkable: The Rev. Numbers: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?

That's a great song. I love Edmund Fitzgerald's voice.


Most people don't know that Edmund Fitzgerald just wrote it. Cat Stevens actually sang the song. And the name of the boat was the Gordon Lightfoot. The crew were all Muslim, and it inspired Stevens to convert to Islam.
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2011-10-29 11:30:08 PM
flahorsegirl

Works for me. You probably had a perfect storm of cookies and referer tags.
 
2011-10-29 11:30:56 PM
Um those aren't really nicknames worthy of putting in quotes. Robert "Bobby", Michael "Mike"? No shiat, it's just common informal variants. Especially the 2nd. I've never in my life seen my name listed as Michael "Mike" Nelson, and yet, I probably get called Mike more often than Michael.
 
2011-10-29 11:31:04 PM
"never buy fireworks from a man with a hook and an eyepatch"?

/got nuthin
 
2011-10-29 11:32:29 PM
Wasilla Hillbilly: Um those aren't really nicknames worthy of putting in quotes. Robert "Bobby", Michael "Mike"? No shiat, it's just common informal variants. Especially the 2nd. I've never in my life seen my name listed as Michael "Mike" Nelson, and yet, I probably get called Mike more often than Michael.

So "Michael 'Second Sucker in the Satellite of Love' Nelson" never comes up?
 
2011-10-29 11:32:44 PM
Infobahn: THEY THAT GO DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

Psalms, 107:23-30, KJV


Not for these 6, He didn't. Wonder why he chose to smite them?
 
2011-10-29 11:41:12 PM
Wasilla Hillbilly: Um those aren't really nicknames worthy of putting in quotes. Robert "Bobby", Michael "Mike"? No shiat, it's just common informal variants. Especially the 2nd. I've never in my life seen my name listed as Michael "Mike" Nelson, and yet, I probably get called Mike more often than Michael.

An exception is Dick "Dick" Cheney
 
2011-10-29 11:44:07 PM
pudding7: Hector Remarkable: The Rev. Numbers: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?

That's a great song. I love Edmund Fitzgerald's voice.

Most people don't know that Edmund Fitzgerald just wrote it. Cat Stevens actually sang the song. And the name of the boat was the Gordon Lightfoot. The crew were all Muslim, and it inspired Stevens to convert to Islam.


But Stevens' conversion to Islam only came after he had spent years in an attic hiding from what he thought were the Nazis.
 
2011-10-29 11:44:38 PM
jaytkay: Wasilla Hillbilly: Um those aren't really nicknames worthy of putting in quotes. Robert "Bobby", Michael "Mike"? No shiat, it's just common informal variants. Especially the 2nd. I've never in my life seen my name listed as Michael "Mike" Nelson, and yet, I probably get called Mike more often than Michael.

An exception is Dick "Dick" Cheney


I'll allow it.

gojirast: So "Michael 'Second Sucker in the Satellite of Love' Nelson" never comes up?

I'm not following you there.
 
2011-10-29 11:45:16 PM
Goooood morning, VIETNAM!
 
2011-10-29 11:46:10 PM
I can't think of another example where the book was so great and the movie was so bowel-twistingly awful.

/ well, perhaps Contact
// but the book wasn't all that great either
 
2011-10-29 11:46:18 PM
INeedAName: I agree subby. Some radio guy referred to a football game the other day as a 'perfect storm,' and I thought 'People died that day, have a little decorum.'

What chemical are you on? The more people die, the better the quote. Oh, and you used the word "died"; have a little decorum.
 
2011-10-29 11:48:45 PM
Get a brain, Moran?
 
2011-10-29 11:52:26 PM
Sorry to tell you but that phrase has been around a lot longer.
 
2011-10-29 11:58:32 PM
UFIA?
 
2011-10-29 11:59:43 PM
The book scares the shiat out of me every time I read it.
 
2011-10-30 12:00:07 AM
"DON'T TAKE THE CAR, YOU'LL KILL YOURSELF!!!"
 
2011-10-30 12:02:58 AM
Am I the only one who read that as Freshman?
 
2011-10-30 12:06:33 AM
Good headline, in that I can't tell if subby is being an asshole or giving a tribute to Junger and the crew of The Andrea Gail.
 
2011-10-30 12:11:21 AM
The trail of damage, which extended from Nova Scotia to Florida, sunk boats, killed 13 people and ravaged parts of the East Coast

That storm caused the Halloween Blizzard of 91' here in Minneapolis.

I missed work that day (tried to get there and couldnt). Bought my first TV the next day too.

It was a 27" RCA that lasted more than a dozen years. A buddy with a Suzuki Samari 4X4 took me to pick it up.

I remember.

upload.wikimedia.org

/what a blizzard may look like...
 
2011-10-30 12:12:21 AM
Mambo Bananapatch: I can't think of another example where the book was so great and the movie was so bowel-twistingly awful.

/ well, perhaps Contact
// but the book wasn't all that great either


Books do not equal movies and vice versa. They are separate genres. Repeat that over and over and over.
 
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