Wednesday, November 6

It Takes a Little Time, Sometimes, to Turn the Titanic** Around...

 That's why if you're smart, diversity means you partner with people in smaller crafts -- Old Town Otters say... ;-) -- who can change direction more quickly, get ahead, and let you know what's coming...*

Bigger isn't always better, you know.

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* ie/ a shoutout:  "Hey, Iceberg ahead!  Steer clear ye wealthy passengers in the bigger, allegedly safer vessel following..."

(Dems would be smart now to put their listening ears on;  as Judge Judy says, there's a reason God gave us two ears and one mouth...)

** Live and learn... I always thought there was a final t in that word, making it bigger! Titantic -- and... I think I've been pronouncing it that way too, lol.

***  Did you know?... Mary Glynn was one of the survivors who made it out of steerage?

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THE WASHINGTON HERALD, 22ND APRIL, 1912 P5
STEERAGE SURVIVOR TELLS STORY OF WRECK
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Miss Mary Glynn, visiting relatives in Washington, praises heroism of passengers on Titanic – women tried to save men.
(Miss Mary Glynn, nineteen years old, was en route from her home in Feakle, Co Clare, Ireland, to the home of her cousin, Mrs D.D. Courtenay, 715 North Capitol Street.

Miss Glynn arrived in Washington last night, and gave a detailed story of the disaster. She declared that the Titanic was running at top speed when she struck the iceberg, and bases her statement on the fact that she was informed by a member of the crew, just before retiring on the night of the accident that the Titanic “was being thoroughly tested, all of her boilers being in use for the first time.”
Miss Glynn’s story of the accident, the escape of the few passengers who were saved, and the final plunge of the ill-fated ship, is interesting.

In a rich Irish brogue she commanded attention from the beginning of her recital, and covered thoroughly every detail of the disaster. Miss Glynn said...

Read it here.