[78-L] some guys have all the luck, and in training.

David Weiner djwein at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 5 10:33:55 PDT 2009



NO!  Don't tell me that you shoveled them into the boiler to get up a
little more steam for the run down to Virginia!  Gotta get ole 97 in on
time!

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  

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I'm reading a new book about the TITANIC and the shipping/sailing industry
at the turn of the 20th century.  Turns out if a particularly pompous or
nasty officer would go down to the boiler room to yell at the coal stokers,
he sometimes would end up fed into the coal chute himself.  *BURP!*

Dave W.




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