Posted on 01/27/2008 6:57:51 AM PST by Mo1
Hey, it took me years to break minds with this amount of precision.
This is a breakthrough!
This is progress!
And just think, you’re part of this too, this momentous moment of momentous discovery!
Lol! Not me...I’m only a spectator. You’re not dragging me down too!
*waving my magic sword*
You forgot....I’m also famous for my barbecued shark bits. :P
Too late!
You’re already too far in to back out now.
Hmmmm....I thought I felt like I was sucked into a vortex just moments ago. That was you? :P
Yes, with a little help.
Don’t worry, the hallucinations are normal as reality is falling away.
Strap on the seatbelts, it’s gonna be an amusing ride.
I enjoy putting people at ease so that they suspect nothing right up until the end.
That really blows. :P
Oh, what, you want some plain good old fashioned terror and fright here and there?
That’s what the blindfold is for.
Don’t forget, you’re part of this insane circus too.
I know it’s hard for you two ADHD kids to keep up with me. I’ll try to slow down a little. :)
Ah.. molassess
1919 2 million gallons of molasses “Tidal wave” Boston MA, drowning 21 I had to find out more on this one!
Forty minutes past noon on 15 January 1919, a giant wave of molasses raced through Boston. The unseasonably warm temperature (46 degrees) was the final stress needed to cause a gigantic, filled-to-capacity tank to burst. 2,320,000 gallons (14,000 tons) of molasses swept through the streets, causing death and destruction.
Eyewitness reports tell of a “30-foot wall of goo” that smashed buildings and tossed horses, wagons and pool tables about as if they were nothing. Twenty-one people were killed by the brown tidal wave, and 150 more were injured. The chaos and destruction were amplified — and rescue efforts were hampered — by the stickiness of the molasses. Those persons attempting to aid others all too often found themselves mired fast in the goo.
The day after the disaster, The New York Times reported:
A dull, muffled roar gave but an instant’s warning before the top of the tank was blown into the air. The circular wall broke into two great segments of sheet iron which were pulled in opposite directions. Two million gallons of molasses rushed over the streets and converted into a sticky mass the wreckage of several small buildings which had been smashed by the force of the explosion. The greatest mortality apparently occurred in one of the city buildings where a score of municipal employees were eating their lunch. The building was demolished and the wreckage was hurled fifty yards. The other city building, which had an office on the ground floor and a tenement above, was similarly torn from its foundations.
One of the sections of the tank wall fell on the firehouse which was nearby. The building was crushed and three firemen were buried in the ruins.
Boston is not a city that forgets anything easily. There are those who claim that on a hot summer day in the North End, you can still smell the molasses.
I can’t run the carnival all on my own now.
I need some extra hands, fins, and scales here and there.
And yes, even some furries.
hmmmm... I was just out visiting my baby python friends at Petsmart.... it gave me some ideas for how to frighten a shark
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