2910: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Revision history

Jkshapiro: /* Explanation */ clarity

2025-03-26T21:25:50Z

‎Explanation: clarity

Jkshapiro: /* Explanation */ Possessive required

2025-03-26T21:25:02Z

‎Explanation: Possessive required

Jkshapiro: /* Explanation */ That's MISTER Earth to you

2025-03-26T21:23:30Z

‎Explanation: That's MISTER Earth to you

Jkshapiro: /* Explanation */ slightly more felicitous wording

2025-03-26T21:21:56Z

‎Explanation: slightly more felicitous wording

Jkshapiro: /* Explanation */ Clarify the joke and add some detail about textual changes

2025-03-26T21:20:59Z

‎Explanation: Clarify the joke and add some detail about textual changes

CalibansCreations: /* Explanation */

2024-11-21T12:29:59Z

‎Explanation

Apollo11: The paragraph seemed weird at the end (also better sentence structure)

2024-05-15T19:42:30Z

The paragraph seemed weird at the end (also better sentence structure)

42.book.addict at 17:09, 15 May 2024

2024-05-15T17:09:38Z

162.158.146.234: /* Explanation */ "Heavily modified" is a gross overstatement. The difference is one line.

2024-05-10T23:51:26Z

‎Explanation: "Heavily modified" is a gross overstatement. The difference is one line.

172.69.23.40: /* Explanation */

2024-04-14T16:46:13Z

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 The first, third, and fourth lines of Cueball's song are identical to the 9th, 11th, and 12th lines of Lightfoot's. Cueball's second line, "It was due to set sail for Cleveland" does not match Lightfoot's 10th, "Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin", but is closer to Lightfoot's 14th line, "When they left fully loaded for Cleveland". It is possible that Randall made this change in order to tighten the otherwise fairly loose rhyming scheme of the song. After Cueball's first four lines, his song departs significantly from Lightfoot's.
-In real life, the cause of the ship's sinking remains unknown, but it's speculated that the ship's hull broke up in the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIg90sVSwSE rough waters of a storm.] Lightfoot, who wasn't involved with the ship at all, [https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/the-ship-sank-all-over-again-families-of-victims-in-wreck-recall-gordon-lightfoot/article_8cb6b84d-5576-5344-ba20-d5b06e3370d9.html] devoted considerable time, effort and money to the families of the disaster's victims. In addition, while the parody presents Lightfoot as desperate for a career-making song, he was already internationally famous, with multiple hits, when the wreck occurred.
+In real life, the cause of the ship's sinking remains unknown, but it's speculated that the ship's hull broke up in the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIg90sVSwSE rough waters of a storm.] Lightfoot, who wasn't involved with the ship at all, [https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/the-ship-sank-all-over-again-families-of-victims-in-wreck-recall-gordon-lightfoot/article_8cb6b84d-5576-5344-ba20-d5b06e3370d9.html] devoted considerable time, effort and money to the families of the disaster's victims. In addition, while the comic presents Lightfoot as desperate for a career-making song, he was already internationally famous, with multiple hits, when the wreck occurred.
 Only a day after the comic was released (March 23rd, 2024) a YouTuber recorded [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGsi9Ry6TsU Randall's version of the song].

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 The first, third, and fourth lines of Cueball's song are identical to the 9th, 11th, and 12th lines of Lightfoot's. Cueball's second line, "It was due to set sail for Cleveland" does not match Lightfoot's 10th, "Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin", but is closer to Lightfoot's 14th line, "When they left fully loaded for Cleveland". It is possible that Randall made this change in order to tighten the otherwise fairly loose rhyming scheme of the song. After Cueball's first four lines, his song departs significantly from Lightfoot's.
-In real life, the cause of the ship sinking remains unknown, but it's speculated that the ship's hull broke up in the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIg90sVSwSE rough waters of a storm.] Lightfoot, who wasn't involved with the ship at all, [https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/the-ship-sank-all-over-again-families-of-victims-in-wreck-recall-gordon-lightfoot/article_8cb6b84d-5576-5344-ba20-d5b06e3370d9.html] devoted considerable time, effort and money to the families of the disaster's victims. In addition, while the parody presents Lightfoot as desperate for a career-making song, he was already internationally famous, with multiple hits, when the wreck occurred.
+In real life, the cause of the ship's sinking remains unknown, but it's speculated that the ship's hull broke up in the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIg90sVSwSE rough waters of a storm.] Lightfoot, who wasn't involved with the ship at all, [https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/the-ship-sank-all-over-again-families-of-victims-in-wreck-recall-gordon-lightfoot/article_8cb6b84d-5576-5344-ba20-d5b06e3370d9.html] devoted considerable time, effort and money to the families of the disaster's victims. In addition, while the parody presents Lightfoot as desperate for a career-making song, he was already internationally famous, with multiple hits, when the wreck occurred.
 Only a day after the comic was released (March 23rd, 2024) a YouTuber recorded [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGsi9Ry6TsU Randall's version of the song].

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 The song was written only a few months after the incident. In Cueball's version, it was Lightfoot himself who engineered the wreck, in order to provide material for lyrics to fit a tune he'd already composed. Cueball then goes on to suggest that a "young" director {{w|James Cameron}} engineered the much greater maritime disaster, the 1912 {{w|Sinking of the Titanic|sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''}}, so he could create {{w|Titanic (1997 film)|a film about it}} 85 years later (when Cameron was 42 years old).
-This theme is carried further in the title text, which suggests that director {{w|Michael Bay}} created an actual asteroid in the 1990s and directed it toward the earth, in order to provide material for his film ''{{w|Armageddon (1998 film)|Armageddon}}''. However, there was no such asteroid: unlike the other examples, this film was not based on real events.
+This theme is carried further in the title text, which suggests that director {{w|Michael Bay}} created an actual asteroid in the 1990s and directed it toward the Earth, in order to provide material for his film ''{{w|Armageddon (1998 film)|Armageddon}}''. However, there was no such asteroid: unlike the other examples, this film was not based on real events.
 The first, third, and fourth lines of Cueball's song are identical to the 9th, 11th, and 12th lines of Lightfoot's. Cueball's second line, "It was due to set sail for Cleveland" does not match Lightfoot's 10th, "Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin", but is closer to Lightfoot's 14th line, "When they left fully loaded for Cleveland". It is possible that Randall made this change in order to tighten the otherwise fairly loose rhyming scheme of the song. After Cueball's first four lines, his song departs significantly from Lightfoot's.

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 The comic features [[Cueball]] on a pier with a guitar, sharing a conspiracy theory about the origin of {{w|Gordon Lightfoot}}'s song '{{w|The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald|The Wreck of the ''Edmund Fitzgerald''}}'. This song, which was one of the most recognizable and successful of Lightfoot's career, recounts the fate of the {{w|SS Edmund Fitzgerald|SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald''}}, a {{w|Great Lakes}} freighter which famously sank during a storm on {{w|Lake Superior}}, resulting in the deaths of the entire crew.
-The song was written only a few months after the incident. In Cueball's version, it was Lightfoot himself who engineered the wreck, in order to provide material for lyrics that fit a tune he'd already composed. Cueball then goes on to suggest that a "young" director {{w|James Cameron}} engineered the much greater maritime disaster, the 1912 {{w|Sinking of the Titanic|sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''}}, so he could create {{w|Titanic (1997 film)|a film about it}} 85 years later (when Cameron was 42 years old).
+The song was written only a few months after the incident. In Cueball's version, it was Lightfoot himself who engineered the wreck, in order to provide material for lyrics to fit a tune he'd already composed. Cueball then goes on to suggest that a "young" director {{w|James Cameron}} engineered the much greater maritime disaster, the 1912 {{w|Sinking of the Titanic|sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''}}, so he could create {{w|Titanic (1997 film)|a film about it}} 85 years later (when Cameron was 42 years old).
 This theme is carried further in the title text, which suggests that director {{w|Michael Bay}} created an actual asteroid in the 1990s and directed it toward the earth, in order to provide material for his film ''{{w|Armageddon (1998 film)|Armageddon}}''. However, there was no such asteroid: unlike the other examples, this film was not based on real events.

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 ==Explanation==
-The comic features [[Cueball]] performing a {{w|narrative song}}, which parodies {{w|Gordon Lightfoot}}'s song '{{w|The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald|The Wreck of the ''Edmund Fitzgerald''}}'. This song, which was one of the most recognizable and successful of Lightfoot's career, recounts the fate of the {{w|SS Edmund Fitzgerald|SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald''}}, a {{w|Great Lakes}} freighter which famously sank during a storm on {{w|Lake Superior}}, resulting in the deaths of the entire crew.
+The comic features [[Cueball]] on a pier with a guitar, sharing a conspiracy theory about the origin of {{w|Gordon Lightfoot}}'s song '{{w|The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald|The Wreck of the ''Edmund Fitzgerald''}}'. This song, which was one of the most recognizable and successful of Lightfoot's career, recounts the fate of the {{w|SS Edmund Fitzgerald|SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald''}}, a {{w|Great Lakes}} freighter which famously sank during a storm on {{w|Lake Superior}}, resulting in the deaths of the entire crew.
-Only a day after the comic was released (March 23rd, 2024) a YouTuber turned Randall's text [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGsi9Ry6TsU into a song].
+The song was written only a few months after the incident. In Cueball's version, it was Lightfoot himself who engineered the wreck, in order to provide material for lyrics that fit a tune he'd already composed. Cueball then goes on to suggest that a "young" director {{w|James Cameron}} engineered the much greater maritime disaster, the 1912 {{w|Sinking of the Titanic|sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''}}, so he could create {{w|Titanic (1997 film)|a film about it}} 85 years later (when Cameron was 42 years old).
-Cueball's song begins with lyrics based on the original song (though with a line modified), but quickly shifts into a (completely fictional{{citation needed}}) account of Lightfoot deciding to bribe a mechanic to sabotage the ship, implicitly causing the disaster for the purpose of writing a song about it.
+This theme is carried further in the title text, which suggests that director {{w|Michael Bay}} created an actual asteroid in the 1990s and directed it toward the earth, in order to provide material for his film ''{{w|Armageddon (1998 film)|Armageddon}}''. However, there was no such asteroid: unlike the other examples, this film was not based on real events.
 In real life, the cause of the ship sinking remains unknown, but it's speculated that the ship's hull broke up in the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIg90sVSwSE rough waters of a storm.] Lightfoot, who wasn't involved with the ship at all, [https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/the-ship-sank-all-over-again-families-of-victims-in-wreck-recall-gordon-lightfoot/article_8cb6b84d-5576-5344-ba20-d5b06e3370d9.html] devoted considerable time, effort and money to the families of the disaster's victims. In addition, while the parody presents Lightfoot as desperate for a career-making song, he was already internationally famous, with multiple hits, when the wreck occurred.
-As a punchline, the verse goes on to claim that a greater maritime disaster, the {{w|Sinking of the Titanic|sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''}}, was somehow caused by director {{w|James Cameron}}, implying that he did so in order to make a {{w|Titanic (1997 film)|film about it}}. While the tale of Lightfoot causing the first disaster is theoretically possible (the song came out only a few months after the accident), the second tale clearly is not (barring [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4tPO8tuP9E any time travel related theories]). The ''Titanic'' sank in 1912, 85 years before the film was made, and over 40 years before Cameron was even born.
+Only a day after the comic was released (March 23rd, 2024) a YouTuber recorded [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGsi9Ry6TsU Randall's version of the song].
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 All 3 of these are rather unrealistic conspiracy theories.{{citation needed}}
-A YouTuber has turned Randall's text [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGsi9Ry6TsU into a song] in March 2024.
+A YouTuber turned Randall's text [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGsi9Ry6TsU into a song] March 23rd, 2024-only a day after the comic was released.
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