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18 Aug 2003, 18:21
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Vermin Supreme
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Darwin Was Wrong
So my girlfriend got a phone call from a friend the other day. Her apartment complex was in the news; a fire had taken out a couple of buildings to the tune of maybe 20 apartments. The friend wanted to know if A) she was okay (she was) and B) if her aprtment was okay (it was). In her apartment complex there are maybe 20 or 30 buildings, each with maybe 10 apartments. The 2-3 buildings that got destroyed were across the street and up a wee bit. Lot of homeless; no one dead.
Which isn't really post-worthy.
What I find to be worthwhile is how the fire started. Someone saw some bees flying in and out of a crack in the roof of one of the buildings, and decided there was a beehive that needed dealing with. Obvious solution: hairspray and a lighter.
He's not dead. His fiance didn't even dump him. Darwin was wrong.
The end.
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18 Aug 2003, 20:25
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18 Aug 2003, 20:31
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the solution pointed out is ok and reasonable (well, not really but its fun as hell and id prolly do that)
so there must have been a mistake during the execution of the plot =(
well
why did he want to kill the bees? they make sweet honey =)
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18 Aug 2003, 20:49
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Quote:
Originally posted by Muslim
the solution pointed out is ok and reasonable (well, not really but its fun as hell and id prolly do that)
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spraying a flammable material into a hole in a wooden roof and then lighting it to kill bees seems to me to bee more than one step beelow "the ok and reasonable solution"
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18 Aug 2003, 20:52
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'Rehersal'?
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18 Aug 2003, 21:22
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Did Darwin say "No-one in acro's gf's friend's apartment complex will cause a large fire with an aerosol and lighter in 2003." ?
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18 Aug 2003, 21:24
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Quote:
Originally posted by queball
Did Darwin say "No-one in acro's gf's friend's apartment complex will cause a large fire with an aerosol and lighter in 2003." ?
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Yep.
Those wacky biologists.
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18 Aug 2003, 21:26
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Quote:
Originally posted by acropolis
spraying a flammable material into a hole in a wooden roof and then lighting it to kill bees seems to me to bee more than one step beelow "the ok and reasonable solution"
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well
wooden roof?
wasnt it a building with 30 apartments?
made out of wood? you poor brits
anyways, yeah hes pretty stupid
i bet i could do the same without seting the apartment on fire
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18 Aug 2003, 21:29
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Quote:
Originally posted by Muslim
well
wooden roof?
wasnt it a building with 30 apartments?
made out of wood? you poor brits
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It could have been made of other materials than wood.
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18 Aug 2003, 21:32
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Vermin Supreme
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Quote:
Originally posted by queball
Did Darwin say "No-one in acro's gf's friend's apartment complex will cause a large fire with an aerosol and lighter in 2003." ?
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yes.
(ask me about my roomy's trip to the strip club on centre that clearly disproved all that "incompleteness" nonsense)
Quote:
Originally posted by Muslim
well
wooden roof?
wasnt it a building with 30 apartments?
made out of wood?
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3 buildings got burned, each with 10 apartments (4 on second floor, 4 on first floor, 2 basement). Not high-rise apartments. And yes, wooden roofs (rooves? it's a ****e word either way).
Quote:
Originally posted by Muslim
you poor brits
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not british.
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Originally posted by Muslim
anyways, yeah hes pretty stupid
i bet i could do the same without seting the apartment on fire
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it's cheating if you don't try it on a wooden building.
i'm sure you can find some somewhere around.
Last edited by acropolis; 18 Aug 2003 at 21:39.
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18 Aug 2003, 22:01
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Mr. Blobby
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Going for the Inferno of Death on a beehive isn't all that bad of a solution. Doing it in a small, dry, wooden environment is.
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18 Aug 2003, 23:16
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Quote:
Originally posted by queball
Did Darwin say "No-one in acro's gf's friend's apartment complex will cause a large fire with an aerosol and lighter in 2003." ?
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It was in the notoriously bad later editions of The Origin.
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19 Aug 2003, 03:18
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I'd have used petrol.
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19 Aug 2003, 03:46
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Quote:
Originally posted by Zapman
I'd have used petrol.
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I prefer a shop vac hose right under the entrance. Of course i'm no fun.
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19 Aug 2003, 04:03
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Homesick
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Quote:
Originally posted by cnaw
I prefer a shop vac hose right under the entrance. Of course i'm no fun.
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You could put it in reverse. And run.
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19 Aug 2003, 12:07
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i am hoping that a virus that kills stupid people will evolve*
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(*or be created by my mad scientist/world dictator/evil genius offspring)
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