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  1. Organization: Senior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!cs4v+
  3. Newsgroups: alt.great-lakes
  4. Message-ID: <Uf1qMZW00WBLA0vmFw@andrew.cmu.edu>
  5. Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:13:09 -0500 
  6. From: Christopher Ryan Stengel <cs4v+@andrew.cmu.edu>
  7. Subject: Re: Whitefish Bay (WAS: Re: surfing in Lake Superior?)
  8. In-Reply-To: <Bxs43L.DrJ@chinet.chi.il.us>
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  11. Excerpts from 15-Nov-92 Re: surfing in Lake Superior? by Paul Botts
  12.  
  13. > In article <blah> cs4v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Me) writes:
  14. >
  15. >>Hey, I was wondering if somewhere I might be able to find the
  16. >>lyrics to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".  It is my understanding
  17. >>that it contains a line about Whitefish Bay (My hometown!)
  18. >  
  19. > Well, it does, but I'm pretty sure it refers to Whitefish Bay, the bay,
  20. > not Whitefish Bay, the town. The ship was only 15 minutes from the
  21. > safety of the bay when it went down.
  22.  
  23. Maybe I'm a little tunnel-visioned, but what's the difference?  Is not
  24. Whitefish Bay (the town) sitting on Whitefish Bay (the bay?).  I mean,
  25. obviously the ship wasn't headed for a dock or anything, but to me
  26. Whitefish Bay is Whitefish Bay.  Bay or Town=Tomaeto or Tomahto.
  27.  
  28. Anyone have the lyrics?
  29.  
  30. Chris.
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  35.                                             Christopher Ryan Stengel
  36.                                                 stengel@cmu.edu
  37.                                            Carnegie Mellon University
  38.                                                  (412) 268-8372
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