FOOTAGE OF A MEAT LOAF FAN FROM 1912

[AndrewG]

What was so significant about 1912 here? Did this fan supposedly go down with the Titanic?

[Wario]

Originally Posted by AndrewG

What was so significant about 1912 here? Did this fan supposedly go down with the Titanic?

He did, ill give you a lowdown of my great grandfather Wario:

He was born in Colne, Lancashire, and later moved to Dewsbury, West Yorkshire in 1887. In school, he learned to play the violin and in 1909 began working on Cunard Line ocean liners, primarily on the RMS Mauretania. In 1912, Wario worked for the music agency C.W. & F.N. Black, which supplied musicians for Cunard and the White Star Line.
In April of that year, he was assigned to be the bandmaster for the White Star Line ship RMS Titanic. He was at first hesitant to again leave his fiancée, Maria Robinson, to whom he had recently proposed, but Wario decided that working on the maiden voyage of the Titanic would give him possible contacts for future work.
His ticket number was "250654". He also had the cabin number: E. He was in the 2nd class and as the Head Bandmaster of the Titanic did not have to pay for his ticket.


After the Titanic hit an iceberg and began to sink, he and his fellow band members started playing music to help keep the passengers calm as the crew loaded the lifeboats. Many of the survivors said that he and the band continued to play until the very end. None of the band members survived the sinking and the story of them playing to the end became a popular legend, though one which is sometimes mocked in popular culture. One survivor who clambered aboard 'Collapsible A' claimed to have seen him and his band standing just behind the first funnel, by the Grand Staircase. He went on to say that he saw three of them washed off while the other two held on to the railing on top the Grand Staircase's deckhouse, only to be dragged down with the bow, just before Wario exclaimed, "Gentlemen, I bid you farewell!" A newspaper at the time reported "the part played by the orchestra on board the Titanic in her last dreadful moments will rank among the noblest in the annals of heroism at sea."

Though the final song played by the band is unknown, "Nearer, My God, to Thee" has gained popular acceptance. Former bandmates claimed that Wario said he would either play "Nearer, My God, to Thee" or "O God, Our Help in Ages Past" if he was ever on a sinking ship, but Walter Lord's book A Night to Remember popularized wireless officer Harold Bride's account of hearing the song "Autumn".
Wario's body was recovered by the Mackay–Bennet as body number 224 almost two weeks after the sinking. He was transferred to the Arabic and sent to England. One thousand people attended his funeral, while 40,000 lined the route of his funeral procession. He is buried in Colne where a 10-foot monument, containing a carved violin at its base, was erected in his honour. Wario's large Victorian terraced house in West Park Street, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, bears a blue plaque to remind passers-by that this was the bandleader's home. As of 2001, Wario 's name was still being used when naming new streets and housing in the town of Colne.
Wario was portrayed by Danny DeVito in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic.

[AndrewG]

Interesting story Wario.
However the Nearer My God to Thee playing during the sinking of the Titanic has always been kind of disputed as far as I'm aware.

Quote from IMDB:

Factual errors: When the band starts playing "Nearer My God To Thee" at the ships final moment, they are playing the American version "Bethany". Considering the Titanic was a British vessel containing mostly British crew, it is extremely unlikely the band would know - or use - an Americanized tune. Instead they would have likely used the British version "Horbury".

I'm sure they played Masculine instead.


DeVito kicks ass on violin.

[The Flying Mouse]

Originally Posted by Steve6

That's Wario's great, great, great grandfather in the video. The ending proves demonic possession runs in the family, it certainly explains Wario's antics on MLUKFC.

I think this pic explains things better............




As for his great great great grandfather, he was not lost on the Titanic.
He was on the Titanic, and in fact caused the fateful crash into the iceberg.
Everyone on watch (including the men in the wheelhouse and the lookouts) were too busy looking at his latest attention whore antics to notice a ~~~~ing big iceberg right in their path.
With the cry "women and children first" came Wario's salvation.
He was dressed in drag and so was taken for a particulaly ugly woman and given a seat on one of the first lifeboats out.

He next appears on record in Sarajevo.
On 28 June 1914, a fair was held to welcome the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg to the city.
One of the assembled performers was a young Bosnian Serb by the name of Gavrilo Princip, who had taken advantage with the facination of the American west held in Europe, and had reinvented himself as a rodeo rider and sharpshooter of some repute.
During a photo opportunity for Princip for the local paper, Wario threw himself wildly into shot shouting loudly.This shock prompted Princip's finger to tighten on the trigger, firing a round, which by damn bad luck struck the visiting Archduke in the neck.
With the sound of gunfire in the air, the local militia also opened fire in the general direction they heard the shot coming from.
In the resulting crossfire the hapless Archduke and his wife were cut to ribbons.
The nations of Europe hurredly conviened to try to avert war, but this conference naturally attracted the media, which in turn proved irrisistable to attention whore Wario.
Just as things were being peacefully concluded, Wario sprang into the room donning a pair of oversized comedy squeeky clown shoes, a G string, and a flashing bow tie.
The German delegate, becoming increasingly annoyed at his antics threw his pickelhaube at Wario, closely missing him and instead striking the Russian delegate, breaking his nose.
The Russian, not to be placated after this turn of events, was then to storm from the room flinging over his shoulder the immortal words "we'll see you c***s on the field of honour".
And thus began WW1.

In what is regarded as the biggest military ~~~~ up since the Light Bragade commander said "come on lads, let's go this way", Wario was placed in the department of covert operations.
Casualties were high.
He remains the only person in recorded history to lead a night time stealth action on a heavilly fortified enemy position while wearing tap shoes.

Finally he was sentanced to death by his own side because they just couldn't take any more.

However, every country in the world wanted the honour of shooting the annoying little gimp, and so, in 1918, the great powers were summoned to a second conference to decide his fate.
They were amazed to find after all this time of shooting the holy living hell out of each other that they had much in common.
They all hated Wario.
This may not seem much, but the feelings ran very deep, and so was forged a peace born of a desire to be shut of him.
It was decided that no one power should have the honour of executing him as this would cause resentment and possibly an extention of hostilities, and so it was decided to get in the proffesionals in.

What the world needed, was the moderators.

Dispatches were sent to the group known as the mlukfc (moderators lash unfortunate knuckleheads fukwits and clots) who readilly rushed to the scene, eager to do their part in restoring peace and harmony to the world.

At exactly 10:59am on the 11th November 1918, the shots from five rifles rang out.
Exactly one minute later all the guns of the world fell silent.

This is the last picture of world war 1, and quite justly shows the action that made it's end a reality.

[AndrewG]

Wario is gonna love you for spending so much time on that.

[AndyK]

[Wario]

Neil, you really know your history.

So this fanclub is named after the ones who put down my ancestor?

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