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Enormous New Dam Fails In Brazil
New Scientist ^ | 7-10-2006

Posted on 07/10/2006 8:15:34 PM PDT by blam

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To: blam
The dam's owner, Enercan, a consortium of Brazilian power companies, has revealed little about the accident.

"You mean we shouldn't have contracted with my brother-in-law's samba school for steel reinforcements?"
41 posted on 07/10/2006 8:48:22 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: blam

That is shody work some contractors made off with a bundle!


42 posted on 07/10/2006 8:50:02 PM PDT by restornu (Could Harry Reid be a descendant of King Noah? Mosiah 7-29)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Members of the flat earth society.


43 posted on 07/10/2006 8:50:12 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Recovering Hermit
"Looks like a do-over if I've ever seen one."

Wull... It's never gonna be a "gimme!" Were you thinkin of a "Mulligan?"

44 posted on 07/10/2006 8:50:43 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Memo To: Uncle Sam Re: Terrorists, Insurgents and Illegal Combatants...NoUniforms... No Prisoners!!!)
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To: VeniVidiVici

They should have had Americans from North America do the job.


45 posted on 07/10/2006 8:51:03 PM PDT by mathurine (ua)
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To: blam
Enormous New Dam Fails In Brazil

New, more optimistic headline:

Brazil Unveils World's Largest Skate Park

46 posted on 07/10/2006 8:51:54 PM PDT by JennysCool (Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
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To: blam
I heard the concrete was supplied by Ricardo Ramirez.
47 posted on 07/10/2006 8:52:17 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: jjr153
Holy frijole! I knew we should have paid for the soils engineering!
48 posted on 07/10/2006 8:53:11 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: SierraWasp

Brazilians speak Portugese.


49 posted on 07/10/2006 8:53:19 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: SierraWasp
"...if I'm not mistaken, French is Brazil's official language!!! No wonder!!!"

Try Portuguese..... Brazil is almost half of South America in population and almost half of South America in land area so think big.
50 posted on 07/10/2006 8:53:33 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (Pork barbeque, bacon, pork chops, sausage, ribs, ham, pork rinds are so good and so offensive to...)
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To: blam

Life copies "The Simpson" again.


51 posted on 07/10/2006 8:53:49 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Red is good)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

You're right, of course. I was cornfused! I knew it was one of them southern EU cuntries!!!


52 posted on 07/10/2006 8:54:36 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Memo To: Uncle Sam Re: Terrorists, Insurgents and Illegal Combatants...NoUniforms... No Prisoners!!!)
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To: SierraWasp

The pictures look like it's an earthen dam with a cement cap over it for erosion.

Don't they know they have to exterminate those wild earth boaring creatures before they build a dam.


53 posted on 07/10/2006 8:54:36 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: dalereed

How much duct could a duct tape duct if de duct duct tape could duct duct.


54 posted on 07/10/2006 8:54:36 PM PDT by mathurine (ua)
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To: dalereed

Oh MAN!!! That's the funniest yet!!! Which is the correct spelling of "dike?" I don't wanna make a mistake here, ya know...


55 posted on 07/10/2006 8:57:18 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Memo To: Uncle Sam Re: Terrorists, Insurgents and Illegal Combatants...NoUniforms... No Prisoners!!!)
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To: SierraWasp
On top of that, if I'm not mistaken, French is Brazil's official language!!! No wonder!!!

I think the only (sorta) French-speaking (sorta) countries in the Americas are Haiti and French Guyana. Brazil speaks Portuguese, which is more voluptuous than the bony, clicky Spanish, but considerably more structured sounding than the gooey, jellyfish that is French.
56 posted on 07/10/2006 8:58:56 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: BurbankKarl; Inyo-Mono
"Members of the flat earth society"

AKA "Luddites!" (see also Reply# 15, above)

57 posted on 07/10/2006 9:00:15 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Memo To: Uncle Sam Re: Terrorists, Insurgents and Illegal Combatants...NoUniforms... No Prisoners!!!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yeah, I too was looking for that post to link it. Think that stuff only happens in the third world? Just wait, California.


58 posted on 07/10/2006 9:00:26 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Go home and fix Mexico)
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To: alancarp

Why, that's a job for ... Superman!


59 posted on 07/10/2006 9:02:28 PM PDT by KellyAdmirer
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To: SierraWasp
Well, I'll be dammed! I figured it'd be "Fiends of the River," (no, wait... Friends of the River, Inc.) instead of this little known bunch trying to get support from the big corporate developers of whitewater rafting in CA!!!

Dang! You nailed it. They have the same founder.

Mark Dubois
Bainbridge Island, WA

Mark is the co-founder and board member emeritus of Friends of the River, California's statewide organization working for the protection of rivers, their flora and fauna and for sustainable water development. Mark also co-founded International Rivers Network. He organized the first international dam-fighters conference - a five-day conference and tour with 70 NGO leaders from 25 countries. Mark served as International Coordinator for Earth Day 1990 and Earth Day 2000; Mark coordinated global outreach and developed the seven-person international staff plus the International Council and International Strategic Partners. Mark also is the founder and director of WorldWise. Before his career as an environmental organizer and activist, Mark co-founded and operated "etc", the Environmental Traveling Companions where he organized and guided inner-city youth and disabled, down whitewater rivers.
(source)

60 posted on 07/10/2006 9:02:41 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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