47 years ago tonight when the lights went out of sight

Baseman

http://youtu.be/hgI8bta-7aw
came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. RIP fellas

DerekJohnson

"Edmund Fitzgerald? Oh I love her music!" - Elaine Benes

PurpleThrobber

Young Throbber grew weary of that fucking song on AM radio circa 1976. Get that shit off the air and give me my Elton John and Kiki Dee, Four Seasons and Wild Cherry.

But it's a helluva tune.

RaceBannon

Alert readers saw the song of the day thread

DerekJohnson

I always thought it sank in the 1940s or 50s. Didn't realize it was in '75

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

Alert readers saw the song of the day thread

I can read

Baseman

RaceBannon said:

Alert readers saw the song of the day thread

Don't follow SOTD and the souls of the good shippin crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald deserved their own thread

LebamDawg

The Science Channel had a good show about a Ukrainian ship loaded with grain and it broke in half in heavy seas.
The load shifted when the ship rolled with 25-30 meter waves - basically sending the load back and forth, then when she got atop a wave, the load was at each end, she snapped in half. Sank like a rock.

Could have happened to the EF, iirc they said the load under those conditions were similar to liquefaction during an earthquake.

or I could have been drunk and thought that all up.

MikeDamone

People forget the Arthur Anderson was traveling in close proximity to the Edmund Fitzgerald and tracked back to look for it when it vanished from radar. They also forget the Arthur Anderson is still in service today. They forget that.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

MikeDamone said:

People forget the Arthur Anderson was traveling in close proximity to the Edmund Fitzgerald and tracked back to look for it when it vanished from radar. They also forget the Arthur Anderson is still in service today. They forget that.

They forget because Gordon Lightfoot didn’t write a song about it.

BennyBeaver

MikeDamone said:

People forget the Arthur Anderson was traveling in close proximity to the Edmund Fitzgerald and tracked back to look for it when it vanished from radar. They also forget the Arthur Anderson is still in service today. They forget that.

Where was the Deloitte Touche that night?

PurpleThrobber

BennyBeaver said:

MikeDamone said:

People forget the Arthur Anderson was traveling in close proximity to the Edmund Fitzgerald and tracked back to look for it when it vanished from radar. They also forget the Arthur Anderson is still in service today. They forget that.

Where was the Deloitte Touche Haskins & Sells that night?

Big 4 superiority guy.

MikeDamone

PurpleThrobber said:

BennyBeaver said:

MikeDamone said:

People forget the Arthur Anderson was traveling in close proximity to the Edmund Fitzgerald and tracked back to look for it when it vanished from radar. They also forget the Arthur Anderson is still in service today. They forget that.

Where was the Deloitte Touche Haskins & Sells that night?

Big 4 superiority guy.

Actual, the Arthur M Anderson was a director of US Steel. He was no relation to the accountant Arthur E Andersen.

And if we are talking 1975, it would be the Big 8.

Arthur Andersen, Arthur Young, Coopers & Lybrand, Deloitte Haskins & Sells, Ernst & Whitney, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell; Price Waterhouse, and Touche Ross.

By the time a young Damone left that world it was the Big 6. Including Deloitte and Touche (douche and toilette 😂). Of course, Arthur Andersen also split off their MICD into Andersen Consulting. Both under the umbrella of of Andersen Worldwide Société Coopérative. “Think Straight, Talk Straight” was the company motto. Even though alcohol and drug abuse ran rampant in the firm. All of this is common knowledge at this point.

HTH

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

MikeDamone said:

PurpleThrobber said:

BennyBeaver said:

MikeDamone said:

People forget the Arthur Anderson was traveling in close proximity to the Edmund Fitzgerald and tracked back to look for it when it vanished from radar. They also forget the Arthur Anderson is still in service today. They forget that.

Where was the Deloitte Touche Haskins & Sells that night?

Big 4 superiority guy.

Actual, the Arthur M Anderson was a director of US Steel. He was no relation to the accountant Arthur E Andersen.

And if we are talking 1975, it would be the Big 8.

Arthur Andersen, Arthur Young, Coopers & Lybrand, Deloitte Haskins & Sells, Ernst & Whitney, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell; Price Waterhouse, and Touche Ross.

By the time a young Damone left that world it was the Big 6. Including Deloitte and Touche (douche and toilette 😂). Of course, Arthur Andersen also split off their MICD into Andersen Consulting. All common knowledge at this point.

HTH

You left the world of Douche and Toilet for toilet sales at Lowes.

YellowSnow

MikeDamone said:

People forget the Arthur Anderson was traveling in close proximity to the Edmund Fitzgerald and tracked back to look for it when it vanished from radar. They also forget the Arthur Anderson is still in service today. They forget that.

People forget that between the Great Lakes, Intercoastal Water Way, and Mississippi/Ohio/Missouri Rivers, we? have the greatest cheap shipping for bulk goods on Earth.

MikeDamone

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

MikeDamone said:

PurpleThrobber said:

BennyBeaver said:

MikeDamone said:

People forget the Arthur Anderson was traveling in close proximity to the Edmund Fitzgerald and tracked back to look for it when it vanished from radar. They also forget the Arthur Anderson is still in service today. They forget that.

Where was the Deloitte Touche Haskins & Sells that night?

Big 4 superiority guy.

Actual, the Arthur M Anderson was a director of US Steel. He was no relation to the accountant Arthur E Andersen.

And if we are talking 1975, it would be the Big 8.

Arthur Andersen, Arthur Young, Coopers & Lybrand, Deloitte Haskins & Sells, Ernst & Whitney, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell; Price Waterhouse, and Touche Ross.

By the time a young Damone left that world it was the Big 6. Including Deloitte and Touche (douche and toilette 😂). Of course, Arthur Andersen also split off their MICD into Andersen Consulting. All common knowledge at this point.

HTH

You left the world of Douche and Toilet for toilet sales at Lowes.

That would have been epic, but no. Never worked at douche and toilet.

PurpleThrobber

MikeDamone said:

PurpleThrobber said:

BennyBeaver said:

MikeDamone said:

People forget the Arthur Anderson was traveling in close proximity to the Edmund Fitzgerald and tracked back to look for it when it vanished from radar. They also forget the Arthur Anderson is still in service today. They forget that.

Where was the Deloitte Touche Haskins & Sells that night?

Big 4 superiority guy.

Actual, the Arthur M Anderson was a director of US Steel. He was no relation to the accountant Arthur E Andersen.

And if we are talking 1975, it would be the Big 8.

Arthur Andersen, Arthur Young, Coopers & Lybrand, Deloitte Haskins & Sells, Ernst & Whitney, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell; Price Waterhouse, and Touche Ross.

By the time a young Damone left that world it was the Big 6. Including Deloitte and Touche (douche and toilette 😂). Of course, Arthur Andersen also split off their MICD into Andersen Consulting. Both under the umbrella of of Andersen Worldwide Société Coopérative. “Think Straight, Talk Straight” was the company motto. Even though alcohol and drug abuse ran rampant in the firm. All of this is common knowledge at this point.

HTH

You're old AF.

Not @RaceBannon old.

Were you using 10 column pads? Or that new fangled Visicalc?

MikeDamone

BennyBeaver said:

MikeDamone said:

People forget the Arthur Anderson was traveling in close proximity to the Edmund Fitzgerald and tracked back to look for it when it vanished from radar. They also forget the Arthur Anderson is still in service today. They forget that.

Where was the Deloitte Touche that night?

Sailing I think.

TurdBomber

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Gordy's one deep Canadian, I tell ya. Respekt.