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To: Marty Rubin who wrote (31009)	2/16/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Most people thought the ship would not go down. They figured it was crippled but would float until help arrived. By the time they figured out it really was going down it was too late. The lifeboats were all launched and away with whoever would get in them. A lot of people who got into the life boats thought they were being terribly inconvenienced because the ship couldn't sink and they felt safer on the ship. The movie is not an accurate depiction of the overall attitude of the people who were really there IMO.

To: Marty Rubin who wrote (31009)	2/17/1999 5:03:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Marty, Marty, Marty --- You've blown your cover. No one hires a young gunslinger without checking him on the web and your message will pop up with your nefarious plan and they'll give a tour in Samarkand and you'll never get your chance to steal the company from some f**g (frug?) mgmt. You've blown it. As to the Titanic, you must have known that it was a union ship and building rafts out of furniture was ship carpenter's work and they were forbidden from such work except in port (actually true!), so many had to drown. Pity!

To: Marty Rubin who wrote (31009)	2/17/1999 11:24:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<< Question: I just watched the Titanic (for the who-knows-how-many-times) and cannot figure out one thing. If they had so much time to sink, why couldn't they just built some boats out of the furniture? it just doesn't make sense.>> Does furniture float? Between the band playing for the first class passengers, and all the effort it took for the crew to lock the steerage passengers downstairs so they couldn't escape, I think that most of the staff were very busy discouraging active panic. In that environment, in addition to the fact that many people felt the boat would not sink no matter what, an impromptu construction project would have been a little over the top, I would think. In one of the accounts I read, there was some panic, and some gun battles, including a couple of murders. Did anyone else read this one? It was awhile ago, and my memory fades . . .