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Mystery blob eating downtown (LA)
LA Daily News ^ | February 21, 2006 | Dana Bartholomew

Posted on 02/21/2006 8:23:44 AM PST by mattdono

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To: VRWCmember

Nadler got his tummy stapled and has lost a ton of weight...


121 posted on 02/21/2006 12:27:04 PM PST by databoss
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To: Cicero

I'd like to believe I am irresistible to women.


122 posted on 02/21/2006 12:30:00 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: 70times7; eastsider
First movie I thought of too when I read the article! Great flick, by the way; it still holds up real well today. I'm also reminded of Caltiki: The Immortal Monster
123 posted on 02/21/2006 6:35:05 PM PST by RightWingAtheist (Creationism Is Not Conservative!)
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To: 70times7

It didn't just eat away a guy's head; you saw the whole head MELT on screen. The blob also kills a kid through radiation poisoning. Even in black and white, Hammer flicks pulled no punches.


124 posted on 02/21/2006 6:40:00 PM PST by RightWingAtheist (Creationism Is Not Conservative!)
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To: eastsider

Incidentally, the movie is available on an excellent DVD put out by Anchor Bay. I also have their Quatermass discs.


125 posted on 02/21/2006 6:41:31 PM PST by RightWingAtheist (Creationism Is Not Conservative!)
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To: dljordan; babble-on
Earthquakes and volcanoes....

These two ideas were both on my mind as well, especially with the thermal aspect. That's sure going to put a damper on the housing market. ;o)

126 posted on 02/21/2006 7:14:59 PM PST by Rockitz (After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
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To: EBH
When the Saint James Oil Company stopped pumping hot water, the flow of oily liquid slowed down.

Bingo. We have a culprit.

127 posted on 02/21/2006 7:16:19 PM PST by Rockitz (After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
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To: Pessimist
Per Kenye West, "George Bush hates black goo."

(PaMom hangs her head in shame for posting a silly, but irrevent comment on a serious thread...using my mom skills, I will give myselt a time out).

128 posted on 02/21/2006 7:19:17 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (If I post Blah, Blah, Blah...can I bill at $300 per hour?)
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To: RightWingAtheist
It didn't just eat away a guy's head; you saw the whole head MELT on screen. The blob also kills a kid through radiation poisoning. Even in black and white, Hammer flicks pulled no punches.

I'm guessing they may have edited it a bit for a Saturday noon broadcast. Nice to know one that holds up. No small number of the films I saw back then ended up as MST3K fodder (favorite line? from the lampoon of "This Island Earth": "come on, give a hug to uncle scrotie!"). Thinking back, I'm surprised they let "The Creature" kill the dog (heartless creature - must have been a republican)

129 posted on 02/22/2006 6:11:51 AM PST by 70times7 (An open mind is a cesspool of thought)
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To: 70times7

A lot of films shown on MST3K were quite good; the Best Brains folks have frequently admitted this themselves, but they were limited but what Comedy Central, and later Sci-Fi, insisted they lampoon.


130 posted on 02/22/2006 7:13:50 AM PST by RightWingAtheist (Creationism Is Not Conservative!)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Further info. Most of what surfaces was not oil but water, about 98% water. DOG says this is only the second time in its history this has happened.

The current idea is they were injecting water into a well for the same zone and it look like another old well, abandoned in the 60's leaked.

If you know how wells were abandoned in the 60's this might occur. The only other idea is a previously unknown well on the lease leaked.

They are now checking will histories, api, etc to see if they missed an old well.


131 posted on 02/23/2006 11:42:43 AM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: mattdono

Maybe it's the chocolate Nagin ordered, on it's way to New Orleans.


132 posted on 02/23/2006 11:46:32 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: edcoil

It's possible.

A lot of wells are not cemented in (plugged and abandoned, in the lingo), but plugged with a bridge plug or otherwise temporaily stopped up, with the idea that there would be a re-entry at some later date.

All said, it would have to be a very nearby well, on the same lease, and the operator (the co who was injecting) would have the burden to make sure any other well tapping that zone was: (1) P&A or (2) properly shut in with no casinghead pressure (which results from a leak of the plug downhole).


133 posted on 02/23/2006 1:54:17 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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