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112 years ago today

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 11:25:09

Millions of Americans went to TurboTax.com to file for an extension.

Also, the USS Titanic sunk to the bottom of the ocean and Rose showed her sorriness by not letting Jack climb aboard that gigantic door. There was totally room for both of them.

In the ultimate irony, Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic also died on this date at the age of 62

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 16:21:56, in reply to "112 years ago today"

I couldn’t find any info on the cause of death

Failure to thrive

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 16:32:26, in reply to "In the ultimate irony, Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic also died on this date at the age of 62"

At -12,000 feet

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I couldn’t find any info on the cause of death

He perished during the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. *

Posted by illini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 16:24:39, in reply to "In the ultimate irony, Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic also died on this date at the age of 62"

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I couldn’t find any info on the cause of death

Probably dying. I'll check though.*

Posted by uofi1998 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=uofi1998' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 16:23:30, in reply to "In the ultimate irony, Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic also died on this date at the age of 62"

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I couldn’t find any info on the cause of death

Coleman Hawkins, er, Ty MF Rodgers Stan Account

Meh, it wasn't a space issue, it was a weight issue. The door would've sunk *

Posted by Taz <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Taz' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 16:17:51, in reply to "112 years ago today"

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Sometimes you just need to yeet a bobcat *

Being an Illini fan is a goddamn curse.*

uh, I’d like to see the hydrostatic table calculations before I believe that*

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 16:26:02, in reply to "Meh, it wasn't a space issue, it was a weight issue. The door would've sunk *"

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159 years ago we lost our best choice for a new mascot

Posted by ibdoc <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ibdoc' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 13:59:44, in reply to "112 years ago today"

Rail-splitter vampire hunter Honest Abe

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TIL just now. The Titanic had stops in Cherbourg, France & Queenstown, Ireland before heading to NY*

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 13:54:56, in reply to "112 years ago today"

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(for rent)

picked up some gypsies, tramps, and thieves*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 14:03:22, in reply to "TIL just now. The Titanic had stops in Cherbourg, France & Queenstown, Ireland before heading to NY*"

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my life is nothing I thought it should be and everything I was worried it would become

sounds like some fairies, too*

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 16:27:45, in reply to "picked up some gypsies, tramps, and thieves*"

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Thanks for spoiling the movie.*

Posted by MojoJojo <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=MojoJojo' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 12:00:40, in reply to "112 years ago today"

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There’s a movie?*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 13:48:18, in reply to "Thanks for spoiling the movie.*"

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it's called Captain Phillips

Posted by IlliniSax05 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniSax05' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 13:50:06, in reply to "There’s a movie?*"

he was the captain of the Titanic the night it crashed. it's told from his perspective

Why do you hate me, Sammich?

MAJOR UPDATE: "Maybe you're not such a bad egg, Lisle-y"
-Sammich, 1/15/2011

From his perspective, he was absolutely not drinking that night

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 16:34:30, in reply to "it's called Captain Phillips"

At least, not until he swallowed 3 quarts of sea water

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he was the captain of the Titanic the night it crashed. it's told from his perspective

in the movie, he saves it by sailing into the Hudson*

my life is nothing I thought it should be and everything I was worried it would become

Ended up tragically marooned in New Jersey and had to learn to survive away from civilization*

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 14:10:55, in reply to "in the movie, he saves it by sailing into the Hudson*"

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"Look at me, I am the iceberg now." *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 13:52:39, in reply to "it's called Captain Phillips"

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he was the captain of the Titanic the night it crashed. it's told from his perspective

159 years ago today: Now he belongs to the ages

Posted by Jackie <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Jackie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 11:39:09, in reply to "112 years ago today"

"Some said that a Union maintained by the sword was worthless. Others said a rebellion of 8,000,000 cannot be suppressed; but in the midst of all this tumult and timidity, and against all this, Abraham Lincoln was clear in his duty, and had an oath in heaven. He calmly and bravely heard the voice of doubt and fear all around him; but he had an oath in heaven, and there was not power enough on earth to make this honest boatman, backwoodsman, and broad-handed splitter of rails evade or violate that sacred oath.

“He had not been schooled in the ethics of slavery; his plain life had favored his love of truth. He had not been taught that treason and perjury were the proof of honor and honesty. His moral training was against his saying one thing when he meant another. The trust that Abraham Lincoln had in himself and in the people was surprising and grand, but it was also enlightened and well founded. He knew the American people better than they knew themselves, and his truth was based upon this knowledge."
—Frederick Douglass at the unveiling of The Freedmen’s Monument in Lincoln Park, Washington, DC, 1876

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David Blight's bio of Douglass is very good, IMO*

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 11:48:27, in reply to "159 years ago today: Now he belongs to the ages"

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Legislation was proposed in 2020 and 2023 to remove that very memorial in DC*

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 11:47:14, in reply to "159 years ago today: Now he belongs to the ages"

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yeah, gotta say, that sculpture is all sorts of cringy*

Posted by IlliniRunner <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniRunner' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 12:40:53, in reply to "Legislation was proposed in 2020 and 2023 to remove that very memorial in DC*"

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I thought the Titanic was sunk by the Gales of November*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 11:26:07, in reply to "112 years ago today"

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I suppose eventually many of the famous sunken ships blend together

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 11:43:21, in reply to "I thought the Titanic was sunk by the Gales of November*"

Like it would become extra difficult to put these in order, as some might be forgotten soon.

* RMS Titanic
* RMS Lusitania
* USS Arizona
* USS Maine
* SS Edmund Fitzgerald
* Andrea Doria

My great-grandfather had a ticket for passage to Europe on the Lusitania.

Posted by Memlie <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Memlie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 12:18:30, in reply to "I suppose eventually many of the famous sunken ships blend together"

It was for the May 1915 crossing. The ship was overbooked and so he had to wait several days to travel on the Mauritania.

Re: I thought the Titanic was sunk by the Gales of November*

Posted by Phytynlini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Phytynlini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 15, 2024, 11:31:55, in reply to "I thought the Titanic was sunk by the Gales of November*"

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