Did you know that many years ago, a 15 foot high wall of molasses killed 21 people in Boston?
The solution for this is obvious. We need to ban all high capacity molasses tanks immediately and make possession of too much molasses a Felony. We should also be investigating if we need to ban Assault Sugar Sifters.
I've stopped counting.
January 24, 2023, 01:01 PM
parabellum
Class?
January 24, 2023, 01:27 PM
Blackmore
Common knowledge if you're a native New Englander even if not from Massachusetts.
Truth: The New Hate Speech
January 24, 2023, 01:28 PM
parabellum
Who can tell us what's wrong with Scooter123's post?
January 24, 2023, 01:29 PM
frayedends
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Originally posted by parabellum: Class?
Hmmm. No politics in a non-political thread?
These go to eleven.
January 24, 2023, 01:32 PM
jhe888
I knew of this - what a way to go.
"Let me tell you about when your great-grandpa was killed by syrup . . . "
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
January 24, 2023, 01:32 PM
parabellum
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Originally posted by frayedends:
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Originally posted by parabellum: Class?
Hmmm. No politics in a non-political thread?
That's right. Politics in an apolitical thread, not to mention using a joke that is old, overused, and above all, unfunny.
January 24, 2023, 05:00 PM
Veeper
The History Guy’s video on this event is great too.
At a piano lesson for my 12yo or I’d embed it.
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken
January 24, 2023, 06:02 PM
parabellum
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Originally posted by Veeper: At a piano lesson for my 12yo or I’d embed it.
January 24, 2023, 06:03 PM
PASig
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Originally posted by Captain Morgan:
but how in the world did they clean this up? I am sure a lot of people took some.
The Wikipedia article Para linked to said this:
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Cleanup
Cleanup crews used salt water from a fireboat to wash away the molasses and sand to absorb it,[17] and the harbor was brown with molasses until summer.[18] The cleanup in the immediate area took weeks,[19] with several hundred people contributing to the effort,[7]: 132–134, 139 [15] and it took longer to clean the rest of Greater Boston and its suburbs. Rescue workers, cleanup crews, and sight-seers had tracked molasses through the streets and spread it to subway platforms, to the seats inside trains and streetcars, to pay telephone handsets, into homes,[6][7]: 139 and to countless other places. It was reported that "Everything that a Bostonian touched was sticky."[6]
The event entered local folklore and residents claimed for decades afterwards that the area still smelled of molasses on hot summer days