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Xipe Totec

(43,888 posts) Wed Oct 31, 2018, 02:00 PM Oct 2018

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The strange story of the SS Warimoo, or, Does anybody really know what time it is?

The date was 30 December 1899. Know what this means? First Mate Payton broke in, we're only a few miles from the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line...

http://www.mastermariners.org.au/stories-from-the-past/2304-strange-story-of-the-ss-warimoo

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The strange story of the SS Warimoo, or, Does anybody really know what time it is? (Original Post) Xipe Totec Oct 2018 OP

They should have been singing SCantiGOP Oct 2018 #1

No, the song should be Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2018 #3

Featuring the finest dancing in history. Judi Lynn Nov 2018 #4

Hooray for Captain Phillips! Nice touch, pretending he was unaware. Thanks for this article. n/t Judi Lynn Oct 2018 #2

SCantiGOP

(13,866 posts)

1. They should have been singing

Reply to Xipe Totec (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 02:06 PM

Oct 2018

the old country song, “I’m My Own Grandpa.”

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)

3. No, the song should be

Reply to SCantiGOP (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 1, 2018, 05:35 AM

Nov 2018

Hooray for Captain Phillips
The Pacific sailor
Some say that he's a failure
Hooray, hooray, hooray.

(To the tune of Hooray for Captain Spaulding)

Judi Lynn

(160,451 posts)

4. Featuring the finest dancing in history.

Reply to Fortinbras Armstrong (Reply #3)

Thu Nov 1, 2018, 05:49 AM

Nov 2018

(I thought of the same song after reading this, too.)

Judi Lynn

(160,451 posts)

2. Hooray for Captain Phillips! Nice touch, pretending he was unaware. Thanks for this article. n/t

Reply to Xipe Totec (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 02:26 PM

Oct 2018

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