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Originally posted by Iron:
Thank You Sir John,
Get-Er-Done
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..UMm yes Brian.
and another thing...
it is gonna be rather noisy tomorrow
at "Whitefish Point Light Station, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, he (Lloyd Belcher) will do that again, as he rings the bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Helped by other survivors, it will be rung 29 times for each man lost on the ship, made famous in a Gordon Lightfoot ballad"
(a reported in):-
http://torontosun.com/News/Columnist...9/1298544.html
Am I the only one to hear and now read this ambiguously because I interpret/hear that as meaning that the bell wil be rung 29 times for each of the 29 victims for a grand total of 841 peals "plus a 30th (842nd) for all mariners".
I have always wondered about this even though Gord obviously intended you to see or indeed hear a comma after the word times but the Toronto Sun report has no comma as you can see above
Just in case my calculation proves correct then I recommend that Sharron a.k.a. mnmouse and John a.k.a, seafarer62 do not forget their earplugs tomorrow
Or perhapd Mr Belcher, as he rings the bell once for a lost sailor, knows better!!!
John Fowles
from
http://www.lightfoot.ca/wreckof.htm
"The church bell chimed til it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald"
Look no comma just a line break
OK I guess that will have to do
I rest my case
[ November 09, 2005, 09:10: Message edited by: johnfowles ]