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Under Seattle, a Big Object Blocks Bertha. What Is It?
The New York Times ^ | 19 Dec 2013 | Kirk Johnson

Posted on 12/19/2013 6:04:53 PM PST by Theoria

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To: Sawdring

What’s a Tommyknocker?


41 posted on 12/19/2013 8:11:08 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: Jim Noble
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah-nagl ftaghn

Damned Cthulhu cultists are more zealous than those Ron Paul supporters....

(Good one! ROTFLMAO!)

Sauron

42 posted on 12/19/2013 8:24:26 PM PST by sauron ("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
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To: logi_cal869
Is Prof. Quatermass running the dig???

If it looks like this, we're in big trouble.


43 posted on 12/19/2013 9:24:10 PM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Theoria

It’s the Predator mother ship.
Left NY and went to Seattle.


44 posted on 12/19/2013 10:46:35 PM PST by DWar ("The ultimate destination of Political Correctness is totalitarianism.")
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To: Theoria

Somewhere in all that fill there is a locomotive.


45 posted on 12/19/2013 11:14:29 PM PST by LanaTurnerOverdrive ("I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgus)
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To: LanaTurnerOverdrive

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46 posted on 12/19/2013 11:17:10 PM PST by LanaTurnerOverdrive ("I've done things in my life I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgusting.")
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To: LanaTurnerOverdrive

Where is your tagline from? I’ve been trying to remember the source of that line for about a year.


47 posted on 12/20/2013 4:01:51 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Jack Hydrazine

A Stephen King book about a buried object.


48 posted on 12/20/2013 6:10:53 AM PST by Sawdring
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Mo the bartender on the Simpsons.


49 posted on 12/20/2013 10:26:22 AM PST by LanaTurnerOverdrive ("I've done things in my life I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgusting.")
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To: Slyfox

I get the sense she was drawn to them for some odd reason.


50 posted on 12/20/2013 10:32:11 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Theoria
It's that danged S.L.U.T.!


51 posted on 12/20/2013 10:33:33 AM PST by Daffynition (Make Laura Bush's *Cowboy Cookies* for Christmas! They're GREAT!)
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To: Daffynition

Fancy lawnmower, huh? Somebody’s going to be PO’ed about mowing down the lavender.


52 posted on 12/20/2013 10:35:44 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: LanaTurnerOverdrive

Thank you. It’s been driving me crazy.


53 posted on 12/20/2013 1:53:03 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Theoria
Looks like a Gov't pipe was left behind. Joy.

Bertha’s nemesis: 119-foot steel pipe
'Highway 99 contractors revealed Friday what’s been blocking Bertha, the giant tunnel machine: The obstruction is steel pipe, left buried by a state groundwater study in 2002.'

54 posted on 01/04/2014 2:43:24 PM PST by Theoria (End Socialism : No more GOP and Dem candidates)
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