Comments on: What caused the bridge collapse? http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11716 A Daily Digest of Twin Cities News, Arts and Culture Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:31:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: teucer http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11716#comment-138452 teucer Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:57:27 +0000 #comment-138452 I'm also thinking that "oval office' would be a great euphemism for something. But I am also pretty certain that I can't be the first (or probably the 50,000th) to make that observation. I’m also thinking that “oval office’ would be a great euphemism for something. But I am also pretty certain that I can’t be the first (or probably the 50,000th) to make that observation.

]]> By: teucer http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11716#comment-138447 teucer Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:49:09 +0000 #comment-138447 The Rat: "I imagine a selection of gussett plates sitting on Johnson's desk in the Oval Office."<br /> <br /> And that was the last time there were any gussets on the desk of the Oval Office for almost 30 years. The Rat: “I imagine a selection of gussett plates sitting on Johnson’s desk in the Oval Office.”

And that was the last time there were any gussets on the desk of the Oval Office for almost 30 years.

]]> By: JACC http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11716#comment-138443 JACC Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:40:52 +0000 #comment-138443 Even then engineers failed to factor Global Warming into all their calculations. <br /> <br /> Little did they know. Even then engineers failed to factor Global Warming into all their calculations.

Little did they know.

]]> By: The Rat http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11716#comment-138440 The Rat Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:22:26 +0000 #comment-138440 I imagine a selection of gussett plates sitting on Johnson's desk in the Oval Office. <br /> <br /> "So you're telling me the half-inch ones are thick enough?" Johnson asks in Texas drawl. <br /> <br /> "Yes, Mr. President."<br /> <br /> "Well, you boys are the engineers."<br /> <br /> Little did he know. I imagine a selection of gussett plates sitting on Johnson’s desk in the Oval Office.

“So you’re telling me the half-inch ones are thick enough?” Johnson asks in Texas drawl.

“Yes, Mr. President.”

“Well, you boys are the engineers.”

Little did he know.

]]> By: mazasapa http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11716#comment-138439 mazasapa Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:13:33 +0000 #comment-138439 Yup, it was LBJ's fault for approving that shitty design back in 1966. Yup, it was LBJ’s fault for approving that shitty design back in 1966.

]]> By: Leo http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11716#comment-138438 Leo Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:17:09 +0000 #comment-138438 Build a shitty bridge, then don't give it the maintenence it requires for the next forty or so years and it falls in the river. Why is that so hard to believe. Build a shitty bridge, then don’t give it the maintenence it requires for the next forty or so years and it falls in the river. Why is that so hard to believe.

]]> By: bud jr http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11716#comment-138230 bud jr Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:09:10 +0000 #comment-138230 I agree. <br /> <br /> I am just correcting the fools who try to pin this on Pawlenty and carol Molnau.<br /> <br /> It's a design flaw. Bad things happen. Granted.<br /> <br /> It MAY have been corrected if Bikin' Jim Oberstar was doing his job as House Transportation leader, the position MOST responsible for FUNDING repairs to existing infrastructure.<br /> <br /> Instead, career liberal Bikin' Jim was earmarking money for bicycle paths in Northern Minnesota!<br /> <br /> The hysteria demonstrated by DFL buffoons (Steve Murphy is Witless Buffoon #1) trying to lay the "blame" on the current local administration is ludicrous.<br /> <br /> No wonder Bikin' Jim is peeved at the NTSB. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> I agree.

I am just correcting the fools who try to pin this on Pawlenty and carol Molnau.

It’s a design flaw. Bad things happen. Granted.

It MAY have been corrected if Bikin’ Jim Oberstar was doing his job as House Transportation leader, the position MOST responsible for FUNDING repairs to existing infrastructure.

Instead, career liberal Bikin’ Jim was earmarking money for bicycle paths in Northern Minnesota!

The hysteria demonstrated by DFL buffoons (Steve Murphy is Witless Buffoon #1) trying to lay the “blame” on the current local administration is ludicrous.

No wonder Bikin’ Jim is peeved at the NTSB.

]]> By: The Rat http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11716#comment-138220 The Rat Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:54:28 +0000 #comment-138220 What's deplorable, bud, is using this tragedy to make political hay.<br /> <br /> You can no more link the bridge collapse to bicycle paths than you can an attack by men from Mars. What’s deplorable, bud, is using this tragedy to make political hay.

You can no more link the bridge collapse to bicycle paths than you can an attack by men from Mars.

]]> By: Straw that broke the camels back http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11716#comment-138215 Straw that broke the camels back Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:43:42 +0000 #comment-138215 scrw it. It was ME. It was all my fault.<br /> <br /> I was jumping up and down on the bridge, having read all the reports and I KNEW HOW DETERIORATED the bridge was. AND I ORDERED THE MEN TO KEEP WORKING. <br /> KEEP JACK HAMMERING.<br /> KEEP IT OPEN.<br /> MWAHAHAHAHAH<br /> <br /> Then I STARTED JUMPING up and down, causing a resonant cascade which brought down the bridge. <br /> <br /> It was MY FAULT and I could have never done it WITHOUT those reports. Thanks MDOT, you are among gods. scrw it. It was ME. It was all my fault.

I was jumping up and down on the bridge, having read all the reports and I KNEW HOW DETERIORATED the bridge was. AND I ORDERED THE MEN TO KEEP WORKING.
KEEP JACK HAMMERING.
KEEP IT OPEN.
MWAHAHAHAHAH

Then I STARTED JUMPING up and down, causing a resonant cascade which brought down the bridge.

It was MY FAULT and I could have never done it WITHOUT those reports. Thanks MDOT, you are among gods.

]]> By: bud jr http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11716#comment-138214 bud jr Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:42:29 +0000 #comment-138214 Bikin' Jim Oberstar, career liberal politician, is rightly in the crosshairs now that his diversion of millions in transportation infrastructure (read: repairs) to build silly little bike paths is going to be front page news.<br /> <br /> The Strib has kept it rather well buried to date. <br /> <br /> Throw the bum out!<br /> <br /> He's deplorable.<br /> <br /> Bikin’ Jim Oberstar, career liberal politician, is rightly in the crosshairs now that his diversion of millions in transportation infrastructure (read: repairs) to build silly little bike paths is going to be front page news.

The Strib has kept it rather well buried to date.

Throw the bum out!

He’s deplorable.

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