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retina 2014-02-08 11:36

I wonder if it was properly licensed?
 
[url]http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/gates-spends-entire-first-day-back-in-office-trying-to-install-windows-81.html[/url]

kladner 2014-02-08 15:26

Borowitz is great! Much merriment was occasioned at this location. The link at the top to guest complaints in Sochi is also hilarious.

rogue 2014-02-08 15:33

[QUOTE=retina;366418][url]http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/gates-spends-entire-first-day-back-in-office-trying-to-install-windows-81.html[/url][/QUOTE]

This one is good too:

[url]http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/01/stephen-hawkings-blunder-on-black-holes-shows-danger-of-listening-to-scientists-says-bachmann.html?intcid=obinsite[/url]

Xyzzy 2014-02-12 20:15

[url]http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-autos-kentucky-sinkhole-corvette-museum-20140212,0,5353012.story[/url]

Xyzzy 2014-02-12 21:07

[url]http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/02/number-the-tiles-why-threes-is-my-latest-ios-gaming-obsession/[/url]

Uncwilly 2014-02-13 00:14

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;366781][url]http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-autos-kentucky-sinkhole-corvette-museum-20140212,0,5353012.story[/url][/QUOTE]As it should be.:ford:

jasong 2014-02-13 19:22

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;366781][url]http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-autos-kentucky-sinkhole-corvette-museum-20140212,0,5353012.story[/url][/QUOTE]
Gives new meaning to the phrase,"You might as well be throwing your money in a hole in the ground."

chalsall 2014-02-13 19:39

[QUOTE=jasong;366857]Gives new meaning to the phrase,"You might as well be throwing your money in a hole in the ground."[/QUOTE]

Or, perhaps alternatively...

"You shouldn't undermine the natural super-structure, and suck out materials beneath you, and be surprised when the ground sinks."

"Fracking" anyone? (Sorry; that might come across as Liberal.)

kladner 2014-02-13 22:09

[QUOTE=chalsall;366860]Or, perhaps alternatively...

"You shouldn't undermine the natural super-structure, and suck out materials beneath you, and be surprised when the ground sinks."

"Fracking" anyone? (Sorry; that might come across as Liberal.)[/QUOTE]

I certainly wondered if there were either fracking or waste injection wells in the vicinity.

Chuck 2014-02-13 22:26

[QUOTE=kladner;366872]I certainly wondered if there were either fracking or waste injection wells in the vicinity.[/QUOTE]

No; the Corvette Museum is near Mammoth Cave National Park in the middle of the Central Kentucky Karst, a geographic area very prone to sinkholes.

I have driven by the museum numerous times on the Interstate on the way to Mammoth Cave, but I never stopped to visit.

kladner 2014-02-13 22:39

[QUOTE=Chuck;366876]No; the Corvette Museum is near Mammoth Cave National Park in the middle of the Central Kentucky Karst, a geographic area very prone to sinkholes.

I have driven by the museum numerous times on the Interstate on the way to Mammoth Cave, but I never stopped to visit.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for answering my speculative thought, Chuck. So this is just a common occurrence in limestone country.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karst[/url]


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