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7000 Evacuated From Area -Flaming Russian Ammo Dump
Pravda ^ | 10/01/05 | vanity

Posted on 10/01/2005 8:56:50 AM PDT by genefromjersey

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To: dsc

I had just turned 21 then.


81 posted on 10/02/2005 11:29:44 AM PDT by genefromjersey (So much to flame;so little time !)
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To: Spktyr
Wait until all of that Socialist-built civil infrastructure gets just a little bit older....

Even brand new apartment buildings going up right now in Russia look fifty years old. It's kind of weird.

82 posted on 10/02/2005 11:36:37 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: mvpel
There was a joke from the Soviet era. Q: If an earthquake like the one at Tashkent [1966] hit Leningrad, what would you have left? A: St. Petersburg.

The point was that at Tashkent, buildings from the Soviet era fell, while older ones stood.

83 posted on 10/02/2005 3:42:39 PM PDT by Christopher Lincoln
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To: mvpel

That is because the place is still ran by (Ex) socialist and communist freaks. Putin is former KGB, it does not suprise me that the socialist system still remains in some fashion.


84 posted on 10/02/2005 8:23:12 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: steveo

Thank you for making me laugh after having to deal with the gnashing of teeth this morning!


85 posted on 10/03/2005 8:12:15 AM PDT by Terpfen (Bush is playing chess. Remember that, and stop playing checkers.)
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To: genefromjersey
Flaming Russian Ammo Dump

Is this the new hang out for the homo conventions?

86 posted on 10/03/2005 10:26:52 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: BenLurkin
The blast caused damage 48 miles across the Bay in San Francisco."

Wow.

87 posted on 10/03/2005 10:29:19 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: SunnySide

"feinswinesuksass "(Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.)"

Thank you, I was getting very tired of saying :"Dont eat yellow snow" when some barjocky was enquiring about his tip.


88 posted on 10/03/2005 11:53:01 AM PDT by chinditz
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To: BenLurkin
Not to mention the explosion of a ship carrying AN when the FO got involved with a lighting strike. Texas City 1940............. ANFO was invented..........
89 posted on 10/03/2005 12:36:05 PM PDT by lmailbvmbipfwedu
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To: Bacon Man; Hap; humblegunner; Allegra

I think I need hardly mention that Flaming Russian Ammo Dump would be one STELLAR name for a band.


90 posted on 10/03/2005 12:36:47 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Babies, before we're done here, y'all be wearing gold-plated diapers.)
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To: genefromjersey

How did they know it was flaming? Did it lisp and prance?


91 posted on 10/03/2005 12:59:01 PM PDT by Junior (From now on, I'll stick to science, and leave the hunting alien mutants to the experts!)
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To: genefromjersey
Flaming Russian Ammo Dump

Great name for a band.

92 posted on 10/03/2005 1:47:27 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Making accusations of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: Disambiguator

LOL, sure does.


93 posted on 10/04/2005 5:52:19 AM PDT by NTW64
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To: IonImplantGuru

No, the British blockaded Germany, thus cutting off American trade with Germany. The last thing the British wanted to do was to stop their own trade with America.


94 posted on 10/04/2005 9:05:14 PM PDT by Christopher Lincoln
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
Dimitri! If I have been telling you once, I have been telling you 23 million times NO SMOKING IN AMMO DUMP!

It's quite possible that that's exactly what happened.

95 posted on 10/04/2005 9:08:01 PM PDT by Christopher Lincoln
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To: BenLurkin

Don't forget the explosions in the West Loch of Pearl Harbor that destroyed a number of LST's being loaded with supplies and equipment for an invasion (Saipan I believe). Some guys weren't using proper safety measures while loading some mortar rounds and one went off, setting off a chain reaction in the middle of twenty LST's. Some of the wrecks are still there.


96 posted on 10/05/2005 1:29:24 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson ("Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.")
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To: Spktyr; genefromjersey
The Soviets had more problems than most in that regard - this isn't really surprising. Sure, it could have been terrorist action, but Soviet/Russian ammo depots don't need any help to go "BOOOOOOOOOOOM!" .

Was a regular occurrence in the Cold War.

The Soviets always had these huge ammo dumps with untrained or barley conscript troops looking after them.

Used to look at aerial images of these huge dumps looking at all the hazards and mistakes made.

It was more of a surprise when they didn't go boom

97 posted on 10/07/2005 5:50:55 AM PDT by tonycavanagh
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