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Boxer's bed collapses at India games village (oops, another embarrassment)
Yahoo/AP ^

Posted on 09/26/2010 4:35:41 AM PDT by nuconvert

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Concerns emerged last week after a pedestrian bridge leading to the main stadium collapsed, team officials reported the athletes' village was "unsafe and unfit for human habitation," and two tourists were shot and wounded outside one of New Delhi's top attractions.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: commonwealthgames; india

1 posted on 09/26/2010 4:35:46 AM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert
Boxer's bed collapses at India games

You DO realize the images this headline conjures up, right?


2 posted on 09/26/2010 4:41:42 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

“You DO realize the images this headline conjures up, right?”

That hadn’t occurred to me. Now I have to go shower.


3 posted on 09/26/2010 4:53:01 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Izzy Dunne

I had the same thought...what sort of “Indian games” would result in the collapse of her bed?


4 posted on 09/26/2010 4:56:28 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: Izzy Dunne

Exactly what I thought!


5 posted on 09/26/2010 5:00:58 AM PDT by zzeeman (Existence exists.)
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To: Izzy Dunne
Portrait name: "Wheat straw on painted rock!"


6 posted on 09/26/2010 5:01:26 AM PDT by Dem Guard (Obama's 57 States = The Organization of The Islamic Conference (OIC).)
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To: Dem Guard

How’s about;
“Portrait name: “Wheat straw on road apple?!”


7 posted on 09/26/2010 5:30:35 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

I like yours better! :-)


8 posted on 09/26/2010 5:38:16 AM PDT by Dem Guard (Obama's 57 States = The Organization of The Islamic Conference (OIC).)
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To: nuconvert

Sooooo. . .any injuries?


9 posted on 09/26/2010 5:39:34 AM PDT by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . .and Obama, not made in the USA either. . .)
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To: NittanyLion
I had the same thought...what sort of “Indian games” would result in the collapse of her bed?

Perhaps this?





I know...that was unfair of me!

10 posted on 09/26/2010 5:42:43 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: NittanyLion
what sort of “Indian games” would result in the collapse of her bed

Indian wrestling?

11 posted on 09/26/2010 5:45:02 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (There's only one cure for Obamarrhea......)
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To: nuconvert

I absolutely assumed this article was about Barbara Boxer.


12 posted on 09/26/2010 6:09:08 AM PDT by rod1
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To: rod1
I absolutely assumed this article was about Barbara Boxer.

Me too. I read the whole thing and thought, gee, an athlete's bed collapsed, too. But where was the part about Boxer? I guess it's still too early for me for complex reasoning.

13 posted on 09/26/2010 6:35:50 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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To: nuconvert

It happened right after this.

14 posted on 09/26/2010 6:43:08 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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To: rod1

“I absolutely assumed this article was about Barbara Boxer.”

So did I! I thought Babs put on a few extra pounds and was touring Calcutta!


15 posted on 09/26/2010 7:09:05 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The rallying cry of American patriots.....REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!)
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