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2011-11-18 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

In Gaza, bridges are just above-ground tunnels

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Posted by trailing wife 2011-11-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 A pity. They were literally doing something meant to be constructive rather than destructive.

That would be the first.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-18 05:35|| 2011-11-18 05:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Are they certain it was a bridge? After all it "caved in". Sounds more like a cave, er tunnel

Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-11-18 07:18|| 2011-11-18 07:18|| Front Page Top

#3 so the Dead Load included two Gazans?

/geeky engineering humor

Posted by Frank G 2011-11-18 13:20|| 2011-11-18 13:20|| Front Page Top

#4 /me groans like an about-to-collapse bridge

Posted by SteveS 2011-11-18 17:51|| 2011-11-18 17:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Back to your room, Frank. There is an iphone app for calculating the loads on the bridge. Insh'Allah Development Co. Word on the street is that it is a Mossad plant.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-11-18 20:45|| 2011-11-18 20:45|| Front Page Top

#6 PUBLIC WORKS DEPT. OF THE ISLAMIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF GAZOO ...

versus

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > WNY PALESTINIANS [35% = East Jerusalem] WANT TO BE ISRAELI CITIZENS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-11-18 21:54|| 2011-11-18 21:54|| Front Page Top

#7 They're lucky. It could've collapsed on a tunnel and took them out too.

Posted by tu3031 2011-11-18 22:20|| 2011-11-18 22:20|| Front Page Top

#8 heh heh.... I knew it would draw some groans

Posted by Frank G 2011-11-18 22:31|| 2011-11-18 22:31|| Front Page Top

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