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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]
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Borowitz is great! Much merriment was occasioned at this location. The link at the top to guest complaints in Sochi is also hilarious.
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[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] |
[url]http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-autos-kentucky-sinkhole-corvette-museum-20140212,0,5353012.story[/url]
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[url]http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/02/number-the-tiles-why-threes-is-my-latest-ios-gaming-obsession/[/url]
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[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:
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[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." |
[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.) |
[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. |
[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. |
[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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