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Discuss “How Things Work: Submarines”

As the ?How Things Work? columnist, I am obliged to ensure that my readers get the truth. When an egregious falsehood enters into mainstream thought, I must take immediate action. Therefore, I feel ashamed to admit that my readership has been misinformed on a very important subject ever since January 13, 1969.

The untruths that began to spread on this fateful day have even corrupted Carnival 2005 Booth. I speak to you, readers, of the release of the Beatles album Yellow Submarine and the falsehoods it spreads about undersea craft. Let us examine the song?s most duplicitous of verses, in order that the world of submersibles might see the light of truth once more.

?In the town where I was born lived a man who sailed to sea.? No submarine, past...

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