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Originally Posted by uncle phil
On April 15, 1912, the ocean liner Titanic sank at 2:27 a.m. in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and more than 700 people survived...
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Years ago I went to a workshop on how to get kids and families to use logical thinking in everyday life. Most of the social work type trainings the state sent me to were rather moronic, IMHO. I'm siting in this training and counting down the hours until I can go home and do something exciting like mow the lawn and the instructor put in a video. In the video a guy is telling the story of the Titanic to a group of 10 and 11 yrs old. He then asked if they could think of anyway to save more people. They came up with several idea that actually sounded pretty damn smart. The only idea I remember was "why didn't they just use the life boats to ferry the people over to the ice burg and let them sit on it until help came, wouldn't that be better then being in the water?" Yes kid, yes it would. Art Linkletter was right, kids do say the darnedest things.
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And four years, to the day, later...
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