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Have a tuna sandwich.
I had the strangest craving for a tuna salad sandwich awhile ago. So I dug way back into my cupboard to get a can of tuna. It was delightfully delicious. I suggest that before you go any farther into your day, go make a tuna salad sandwich. You'll be glad you did.
A friend sent me a DVD that contained episodes of a program called One Step Beyond. I don't remember this program, but it's old. The episodes are one-half hour long and they are in black and white. The first episode was incredible. It was about the sinking of the Titanic. Before showing the program, the host shows a book. He said that it would "blow your mind." I don't think those are the words that he used, but that's what he meant. After the show, he shows the book again. It was called Futility and was written by Morgan Robertson. I looked it up on the internet to be sure that the host was telling the truth. He was.
The incredible part of this book was that it was written 14 years before the Titanic made that fatal voyage. Robertson's ship was made in England. The Titanic was an English ship. Robertson's ship was 800 feet long, displaced 70,000 tons, was going at 70 knots, had 3 propellers, had a passenger capacity of 30,000 passengers, was carrying 2,000 passengers on its maiden voyage, and encountered a disaster that sank an "unsinkable" ship in April. The Titanic was 880 feet long, displaced 60,250 tons, was going at 70 knots, had 3 propellers, had a passenger capacity of 30,000 passengers, was carrying 2,200 passengers, and sank on its maiden voyage in April. Robertson's ship had 24 lifeboats aboard; the Titanic had 20. And, by the way, Robertson's ship was called the Titan.
Even stranger, I read on the website that Robertson wrote a book called Beyond the Spectrum. He wrote about a future in which there was a war that started when Japan launched a sneak attack on a city called Pearl Harbor. He wrote about something he called a sun bomb which had the capacity to wipe out an entire city. It was described as having a blinding flash. The war Robertson described was carried out by aircraft. When he wrote it, aircraft were tiny little vehicles that were barely able to carry one man safely.
So, Bumped Off, what do you think?
By the way, Happy Birthday to John! (I saw an article just after I posted last night by Donnaaa that it was John's birthday today!)
Also, congratulations to Martin for his anniversary... with a bird!