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If only Bob and Doug Mackenzie had been there!
1 posted on 10/19/2014 4:14:23 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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In before the "That's how I want to go!" posts!


2 posted on 10/19/2014 4:15:19 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Clappin' the Blues (remix)" [slightly NSFW] - http://youtu.be/p9d2iHSfRmE)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Don’t forget the molasses flood next spring.
“Molasses miasma”, words to look for!


3 posted on 10/19/2014 4:17:41 PM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster


4 posted on 10/19/2014 4:19:30 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: Slings and Arrows
More recently, in 1919, there was this:
Boston Molasses Disaster
6 posted on 10/19/2014 4:20:10 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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7 posted on 10/19/2014 4:21:31 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Slings and Arrows

Which would be worse? A beer flood or a molasses flood just over 100 years later?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster


8 posted on 10/19/2014 4:21:51 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Having sex when the flood occurred, what a way to go!


9 posted on 10/19/2014 4:22:03 PM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Thanks, a great read. the link cites Boston’s Great Molasses Flood of 1919 which is stranger still.


10 posted on 10/19/2014 4:24:51 PM PDT by Fungi (The bigger the government, the smaller the individual.)
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The Horse Shoe Brewery on Tottenham Court Road in London boasted a massive 22-foot-tall vat that held some 160,000 gallons of dark porter. On October 17, 1814, one of the metal hoops meant to secure it snapped, and the wooden vat succumbed to the immense pressure of all that fermenting brew. The gushing beer smashed open the brewery's other vats, resulting in a raging sea of beer that burst forth from the building.

Doug:"Sad, eh?"
Bob: "Tell me about it."
Doug: "You tearin' up?"
Bob: "Me? No way, ya hoser!" [sniffs]
Doug: "It's all the beer, eh?"


12 posted on 10/19/2014 4:27:51 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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WHY IS ALL THE RUM GONE?!?! ;)


13 posted on 10/19/2014 4:28:57 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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And every October 19th, millions of crabs go up the Thames River with a bag of pretzels in one claw.


15 posted on 10/19/2014 4:31:49 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Iv’e never heard of that tragedy. I’m surprised they haven’t written an Ode or a Ballad about it. Gordon Lightfoot sang about a ship sinking during his big years of the 1970s.


16 posted on 10/19/2014 4:33:46 PM PDT by lee martell
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17 posted on 10/19/2014 4:37:25 PM PDT by Brandonmark (OWCM is The new American Minority! 11.06.12 - Day of Infamy!)
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Going somewhere to drown your sorrows afterwards would have been highly inappropriate …


20 posted on 10/19/2014 4:47:13 PM PDT by mikrofon (Then again, it depends ;)
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“Others who were gathered in a cellar for a wake were caught by surprise by the flood and drowned in beer. “

There’s a joke about the Irish in there somewhere.


22 posted on 10/19/2014 4:48:22 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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The victims got out to pee three times.


27 posted on 10/19/2014 4:55:53 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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I should like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings.
I should like the angels of Heaven to be drinking it through time eternal.
I should like excellent meats of belief and pure piety.
I should like the men of Heaven at my house.
I should like barrels of peace at their disposal.
I should like for them cellars of mercy.
I should like cheerfulness to be their drinking.
I should like Jesus to be there among them.
I should like the three Marys of illustrious renown to be with us.
I should like the people of Heaven, the poor, to be gathered around from all parts.

—St. Brigid of Kildare


33 posted on 10/19/2014 5:06:23 PM PDT by RichInOC (...Phi Kappa Sigma, Beta Rho '87..."Grab a beer. Don't cost nothin'.")
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Well, it's either sink drink or swim.
41 posted on 10/19/2014 8:22:01 PM PDT by moovova
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