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Re: The Flat Earth?

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From: Bob Casanova
Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 00:00
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In article <1995Apr30.145323.16530@rosevax.rosemount.com> grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:
>From: grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
>Subject: Re: The Flat Earth?
>Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 14:53:23 GMT

>Robert Roosen (roosen@crash.cts.com) wrote:
>: Andrew Skolnick (skolnick@ix.netcom.com) wrote:

>: : Sorry Robert, but you got your facts wrong. Those two ships didn't fall
>: : off the edge of the earth.  They disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.

>: Wow.  So once again a theory was proven even though the data were 
>: incorrect.  
>:       Of course, if people would stop calling it the Bermuda Triangle 
>: and start calling it the Sargasso Sea again, the mystery of the missing 
>: ships would be explained.

>There is no mystery.  Ships don't go missing in the Bermuda Triangle
>(Sargasso Sea, if you prefer) any more frequently than they do anywhere
>else.  Everybody think thier little chunk of water is particularly dangerous
>and mysterious:

>    The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down,
>    of the big lake they called Gitchegoomee.
>    The lake it is said never gives up its dead,
>    when the winds of November come early.

Actually, "when the skies of November turn gloomy.", but who's counting...


>     -- Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald" 

>--
>Grant Edwards        | Microsoft isn't the   | Yow!  Either CONFESS now or
>Rosemount Inc.       | answer. Microsoft     | we go to ``PEOPLE'S
>                     | is the question, and  | COURT''!!
>grante@rosemount.com | the answer is no.     | 

Bob C.

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From: cas@ops1.bwi.wec.com (Bob Casanova)
Subject: Re: The Flat Earth?
Date: 1995/05/01
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