To: Republican Red
I certainly am impressed with Honore.
I had to pick myself up off the floor and dust off my lab coat.
I also take issue with reporters calling Gulf coast production platforms things like oil rigs. The floating hotel that hit the bridge in Mobile was labeled a drilling rig.
Another pet peeve is when they call a front end loader a bulldozer.
Yesterday a reporter called a bobcat a bull dozer.
Reporters, especially some of the more pampered ones say some dumb things.
1,600 posted on
09/05/2005 12:33:33 PM PDT by
OKIEDOC
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To: OKIEDOC
What hit the Mobil bridge was a drilling rig under construction in Mobil. It broke loose from its moorings and hit the bridge.
1,607 posted on
09/05/2005 12:36:17 PM PDT by
CedarDave
(MLKing, Jr: "I have a dream!", Howard Dean: "I have a scream!", Jesse Jackson: "I have a scheme!")
To: OKIEDOC
Reporters, especially some of the more pampered ones say some dumb things. I said the other day they act like they are stupid and have absolutely NO historical perspective on anything.
There is no depth to them; and no "big picture" attitude..........after all, they are the Instant Gratification Generation.
1,608 posted on
09/05/2005 12:36:17 PM PDT by
Howlin
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To: OKIEDOC
Actually, it was a drilling rig. A semi-submersible. The crane was bent all to hell. I just passed by it a few hours ago along hwy 98 in Mobile before crossing the Cochrane-Africatown Bridge.
OH!! Seeing the USS Alabamb listing to one side (only slightly) was really something..
1,615 posted on
09/05/2005 12:37:46 PM PDT by
abb
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