OT: Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It

Jim Thompson · Jan 5, 2005

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John Larkin · Jan 5, 2005

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:51:06 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It...

They're claiming, on al Jazeera, that the USA (and the Jews) caused
the Tsunami with an A-bomb.

Sheeesh! You guys are slow ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I wonder what the energies involved were like. To make a wave that's
deadly at a thousand mile radius, it must be tens, maybe hundreds of
gigatons of TNT equivalent. All the nukes on the planet couldn't do
that.

John

Kryten · Jan 5, 2005

"John Larkin" <john@spamless.usa> wrote in message
news:lbrmt0hrpjtt862b4o9eo6hbur9l1nouoh@4ax.com...

I wonder what the energies involved were like. To make a wave that's
deadly at a thousand mile radius, it must be tens, maybe hundreds of
gigatons of TNT equivalent. All the nukes on the planet couldn't do
that.

It was estimated at 190 Megatons.

That's not beyond the nuclear arsenal.

How did you come up with your estimate?

no_one · Jan 5, 2005

maybe we dropped a small asteroid into the area from geo...

"Kryten" <kryten_droid_obfusticator@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:AtKCd.12$iX.6@newsfe3-win.ntli.net...

"John Larkin" <john@spamless.usa> wrote in message
news:lbrmt0hrpjtt862b4o9eo6hbur9l1nouoh@4ax.com...
I wonder what the energies involved were like. To make a wave that's
deadly at a thousand mile radius, it must be tens, maybe hundreds of
gigatons of TNT equivalent. All the nukes on the planet couldn't do
that.

It was estimated at 190 Megatons.

That's not beyond the nuclear arsenal.

How did you come up with your estimate?

Mac · Jan 5, 2005

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:51:06 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It...

They're claiming, on al Jazeera, that the USA (and the Jews) caused
the Tsunami with an A-bomb.

Sheeesh! You guys are slow ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I believe you are totally misusing the term "eurotrash."

definition:
Eurotrash: any rich socialite from Europe who lives or works in the US.

source: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=eurotrash

--Mac

Frithiof Andreas Jensen · Jan 5, 2005

"no_one" <no_one@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:aiLCd.809$v76.521@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...

maybe we dropped a small asteroid into the area from geo...

.... and missed Mecca ?

Tim Williams · Jan 5, 2005

"Kryten" <kryten_droid_obfusticator@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:AtKCd.12$iX.6@newsfe3-win.ntli.net...

It was estimated at 190 Megatons.

That's not beyond the nuclear arsenal.

As I recall, the Russians built devices on the order of 200MT - but we
didn't have a need nor want of anything over 100MT. But that's only a
factor of two, so I could be wrong.

Tim

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John Woodgate · Jan 5, 2005

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote (in <nqhmt0l6672aevqseicqu1i38qaa60vshj@
4ax.com&gt

about 'OT: Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It', on Tue, 4
Jan 2005:

They're claiming, on al Jazeera, that the USA (and the Jews) caused the
Tsunami with an A-bomb.

Of course that's completely wrong.

They bored holes along the fault line (all 1200 km of it) and squirted
WD40 into them. That's why there's been a shortage of WD40 recently.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

Jan 5, 2005

There are two conflicting processes working here.

People who misuse a word look like idiots to everybody who knows the
accepted meaning, but if the idiots can drag in a sufficient number of
other idiots, their perversion of the original word changes the
accepted meaning.

"Prestigious" is the classic example - the Complete Oxford still lists
it as meaning deceptive or illusory. I still worry about the
educational level of people who use the word as if it is related to
"prestige" in its second sense, involving (good) reputation, but they
no longer rate as idiots.

John Woodgate probably knows even better examples.
----------
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

John Stewart · Jan 5, 2005

Jim Thompson wrote:

Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It...

They're claiming, on al Jazeera, that the USA (and the Jews) caused
the Tsunami with an A-bomb.

Sheeesh! You guys are slow ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Whats goin' on Jim? Will you bring the American version of the 10
Commandments down from Mt. Rushmore next? You are beginning to get a bit
boring.

Cheers to all, John Stewart

Jon Yaeger · Jan 5, 2005

President Bush and Rumsfeld were sitting in a bar.

A guy walks in and asks the barman, "Isn't that
Bush and Rumsfeld sitting over there?"

The bartender says, "Yep, that's them."

So the guy walks over and says, "Wow, this is a

real honor! . What are you guys doing in here?"

Bush says, "We're planning WW III."

And the guy says, "Really? What's going to happen?"

Bush says, "Well, we're going to kill 140 million

Muslims and one blonde with big tits."

The guy exclaimed, "A blonde with big tits? Why

kill a blonde with big tits?"

Bush turns to Rumsfeld and says, "See, I told you . . .

No one CARES about the 140 million Muslims"!

- J

Reg Edwards · Jan 5, 2005

"Jim Thompson" wrote

They're claiming, on al Jazeera, that the USA (and the Jews) caused
the Tsunami with an A-bomb.

=====================================

Don't be so ridiculous!

Everybody now knows it was an IRA suicide mission funded by the CIA.

Chinese forensic tests have pieced together a credit card from the remains.

Kryten · Jan 5, 2005

"Bob Stephens" <stephensyomamadigital@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:62fwn1lzd3wk$.sdwsvc7cv9wb$.dlg@40tude.net...

On 5 Jan 2005 02:11:56 -0800, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

Two of my pet hatreds:

aluminum (inconsistent with other metals like sodium calcium magnesium)
gotten (instead of got)

-ificated
-ified

(when cobbled onto words that don't fit.
e.g. speechified instead of spoken.
Bush provides many such examples)

Jon Yaeger · Jan 5, 2005

in article 41DC019A.7F611171@sympatico.ca, John Stewart at
jh.stewart@sympatico.ca wrote on 1/5/05 10:02 AM:

Jon Yaeger wrote:

President Bush and Rumsfeld were sitting in a bar.

A guy walks in and asks the barman, "Isn't that
Bush and Rumsfeld sitting over there?"

The bartender says, "Yep, that's them."

So the guy walks over and says, "Wow, this is a

real honor! . What are you guys doing in here?"

Bush says, "We're planning WW III."

And the guy says, "Really? What's going to happen?"

Bush says, "Well, we're going to kill 140 million

Muslims and one blonde with big tits."

The guy exclaimed, "A blonde with big tits? Why

kill a blonde with big tits?"

Bush turns to Rumsfeld and says, "See, I told you . . .

No one CARES about the 140 million Muslims"!

- J

Is this the blonde you refer too? JLS

She'll definitely do ;-)

In fact, I'd put her up against any one of the 72 black-eyed Houris (the
virgins that allegedly await Muslim martyrs in heaven).

Young testosteone-charged fanatics are enticed to blow themselves up along
with innocent bystanders in order to get a "date" with these mythical
sirens.

If you think about it for a moment, there have been a lot of so-called
martyrs over the ages. And these Houris are still virgins . . .
Sorry, guys.

Solving the world's problems, one at a time . . . .

-J

John Larkin · Jan 5, 2005

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:58:08 GMT, "Kryten"
<kryten_droid_obfusticator@ntlworld.com> wrote:

"John Larkin" <john@spamless.usa> wrote in message
news:lbrmt0hrpjtt862b4o9eo6hbur9l1nouoh@4ax.com...
I wonder what the energies involved were like. To make a wave that's
deadly at a thousand mile radius, it must be tens, maybe hundreds of
gigatons of TNT equivalent. All the nukes on the planet couldn't do
that.

It was estimated at 190 Megatons.

That's not beyond the nuclear arsenal.

How did you come up with your estimate?

Just guessing. Megaton underwater h-bomb tests could capsize a ship
maybe 20 miles away. (1000/20)^2 = 2500. So maybe a couple of gigatons
of nuke, more for a shallow blast that didn't couple well to the
water.

I'd do more math, but I actually have real work to do today.

John

John Woodgate · Jan 5, 2005

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jon Yaeger <jono_1@bellsouth.net>
wrote (in <BE017803.13ED8%jono_1@bellsouth.net&gt

about 'OT: Hey
Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It', on Wed, 5 Jan 2005:

And these Houris are still virgins . . . Sorry,
guys.

They become virgins again every dawn.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

Bob Stephens · Jan 5, 2005

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:20:28 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

But I'm going to switch to "EuroPeons", since "EuroTrash" already has
an established definition ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Like it!

Bob

Rich The Philosophizer · Jan 5, 2005

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:11:30 +0100, Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote:

"no_one" <no_one@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:aiLCd.809$v76.521@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
maybe we dropped a small asteroid into the area from geo...

... and missed Mecca ?

Yes. It was deflected by Mother, who protects us, Her children, from the
antics of Ahriman, who has been in God's place for way too long.

Thanks,
Rich

Rich Grise · Jan 5, 2005

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:04:45 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote (in <nqhmt0l6672aevqseicqu1i38qaa60vshj@
4ax.com&gt about 'OT: Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It', on Tue, 4
Jan 2005:
They're claiming, on al Jazeera, that the USA (and the Jews) caused the
Tsunami with an A-bomb.

Of course that's completely wrong.

They bored holes along the fault line (all 1200 km of it) and squirted
WD40 into them. That's why there's been a shortage of WD40 recently.

Yeah, ha, ha.

But seriously, 1200 km? That would account for a lot of
water movement. I had ass-u-med that it was some sort of rockslide - I
guess I had had that on my mind. Think Hawaii's Big Crack, or whatever
it's called.

Does anyone know the actual mechanics of the event itself?

Thanks,
Rich

Rich Grise · Jan 5, 2005

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:04:45 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote (in <nqhmt0l6672aevqseicqu1i38qaa60vshj@
4ax.com&gt about 'OT: Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It', on Tue, 4
Jan 2005:
They're claiming, on al Jazeera, that the USA (and the Jews) caused the
Tsunami with an A-bomb.

Of course that's completely wrong.

They bored holes along the fault line (all 1200 km of it) and squirted
WD40 into them. That's why there's been a shortage of WD40 recently.

You know that's ludicrous. If they'd used WD-40, the transition would have
been smooth and noiseless. Nah, it had to be dynamite. From Acme, of
course. Placed by John Henry and Paul Bunyan.

;-p
Rich

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