[Ads-l] A too-soon crashblossom (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Robin Hamilton]

"At least 3 dead after whale watching boat carrying 27 sinks"

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From: Mullins, Bill CIV (US)

So let me get this straight.  There was a whale, and he was watching a boat 
carrying 27 of something, and the whale sank?
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Three of the 27 passengers on the boat were so startled by the sight of the 
sinking whale, that they fell over the side, and drowned.  (Reuters ?)

[The punctuation in my expansion is rhetorical rather than logical or 
syntactic.  RH.] 

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