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Dennis Donovan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 08:08 PM Original message |
Tomorrow is the 90th Anniversary of the Boston Molasses Disaster |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 08:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. Sweet Jesus |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 08:14 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Whatever happened to "slow as molasses"? |
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sabbat hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 08:16 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. The real saying was |
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hvn_nbr_2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 08:41 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. I've always heard "slow as molasses in January" |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-15-09 10:48 AM Response to Reply #2 |
17. "In January," No Less |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 08:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Yah. Sounds more like LaBrea. |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
3. I remember finding a children's book about this incident. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
6. I could smell it in the North End on hot, foggy days |
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Rhiannon12866 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
7. Yikes! K&R! |
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Dennis Donovan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-15-09 10:06 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. I dunno... |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-15-09 10:43 AM Response to Reply #7 |
16. Every report I've ever read on the topic has said that it was an unseasonably warm day. |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
8. Dark Tide : the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (03 Edition) |
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blaze (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
9. As though he were surfing? |
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SoCalNative (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 08:52 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Surfing |
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blaze (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-15-09 09:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Thanks! |
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whistler162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
12. A folk group has a song with reference to the incident... |
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busybl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
13. oh man, that was so horrible |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-09 09:10 PM Response to Original message |
14. Molasses sucks. |
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