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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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 Posted - 09/20/2009 : 04:57:36
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What on Earth? #67: Disaster
Note: Since I am going to be busy in the morning and all day (riding my scooter and a steam train), I'm again posting an exercise under cover of darkness.
One point for each question:
1. A great disaster took place here. What was the nature of the disaster?
2. Just where is "here"?
3. When did the disaster take place?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/20/2009 04:59:43
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sailingsoul
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Posted - 09/20/2009 : 08:59:45 [Permalink]
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| From the British point of view , I'd say a protest, in a distant colony that paved the way to the independance of that colony, a disaster. That being the Boston tea party and this is Boston. In 1773. You might have a later disaster, but mine occurred first. SS |
There are only two types of religious people, the deceivers and the deceived. SS |
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sailingsoul
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Posted - 09/20/2009 : 09:14:35 [Permalink]
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| There are also, The Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919,(A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150. The event has entered local folklore, and residents claim that on hot summer days, the area still smells of molasses) or the great explosion in Boston, may 27, 1875. three disasters all in Boston. you pick the right one. SS |
There are only two types of religious people, the deceivers and the deceived. SS |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/20/2009 : 19:37:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by sailingsoul
There are also, The Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919,(A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150. The event has entered local folklore, and residents claim that on hot summer days, the area still smells of molasses) or the great explosion in Boston, may 27, 1875. three disasters all in Boston. you pick the right one. SS
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Correct for all three points. Congratulations, sailingsoul!
I'm glad it's you that made the "correct" second guess (arbitrarily correct as defined as the one I was thinking about), as I hate to disallow decent guesses.
Indeed the Boston Tea Party might have seemed a disaster to some pro-Royalist British, but most Bostonians probably either supported it, or were merely embarrassed by it (tea party embarrassment has a long tradition.)
Aftermath of the Molasses Flood, 1919.
The Great Molasses Flood, however, was an unequivocal disaster.
HalfMooner's First Law of Food Humor: Any inherently humorous aspect of food will inevitably be subsumed by its tragic aspects by sufficient increase in scale. A pie fight, if sufficiently grandiose, will be an Armageddon.
It also wasn't funny that the negligent company responsible tried to blame the spill on anarchist bombs.
The standings:- Hal, 16 points
- steinhenge, 6 points
- Hawks, 5.5 points
- lorddix, 4 points
- Randy, 3 points
- sailinsoul, 3 points
- bngbuck, 2 points
- Simon, 2 points
- Dave W., 1 point
(Ties are listed in alphabetical order.)
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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steinhenge
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 09/21/2009 : 01:13:19 [Permalink]
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| Hey! I thought I had 6 points! |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/21/2009 : 08:18:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by steinhenge
Hey! I thought I had 6 points!
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You are correct, sorry! I'll fix that next.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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WoE # 67: Disaster
