I’d like to propose a little activity for your entertainment and enjoyment which may arouse your curiosity and (especially in the case of our less experienced members) encourage you to go and have a look at some of the sources which are often quoted by our “veterans” during the discussions and debates which we enjoy on this board:
My suggestion is that we put up a series of quotations concerning the Titanic and invite readers to identify both the speaker and the source — something along the lines of “Spoken by Captain Bloggs, as the vessel left Southampton, and quoted in Ethel Cringeworthy’s “Titanic Rules the Waves” (1923, page4)” — that sort of thing!!!
Posters might want to leave a blank (*****) if they feel that the full quote would be too easy, or perhaps as an extra teaser, which respondents can then seek to identify.
So here goes, in anticipation of your cooperation: Let me make the first contribution and ask you to identify this quote?
“I heard Mr. Lightoller speak to Mr. ***** and tell him to speak through the telephone to the crow's-nest to keep a sharp look-out for small ice and growlers until daylight and pass the word along to the look-out man.”
Who said this, in what source, and whose name is omitted?
Any takers??
bob
My suggestion is that we put up a series of quotations concerning the Titanic and invite readers to identify both the speaker and the source — something along the lines of “Spoken by Captain Bloggs, as the vessel left Southampton, and quoted in Ethel Cringeworthy’s “Titanic Rules the Waves” (1923, page4)” — that sort of thing!!!
Posters might want to leave a blank (*****) if they feel that the full quote would be too easy, or perhaps as an extra teaser, which respondents can then seek to identify.
So here goes, in anticipation of your cooperation: Let me make the first contribution and ask you to identify this quote?
“I heard Mr. Lightoller speak to Mr. ***** and tell him to speak through the telephone to the crow's-nest to keep a sharp look-out for small ice and growlers until daylight and pass the word along to the look-out man.”
Who said this, in what source, and whose name is omitted?
Any takers??
bob