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2015-09-19 Africa North
The long-awaited dream: Egyptian army begins flooding Gaza tunnels
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Posted by trailing wife 2015-09-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top
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#1 This is going to play merry hob with Gaza's wells...

Actions do have consequences.
Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-09-19 00:15||   2015-09-19 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone has been reading the 'Burg.
Posted by SteveS 2015-09-19 00:42||   2015-09-19 00:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Gee, maybe they'll use all this water to mix their concrete from now on. That would be fun.
Posted by AlanC 2015-09-19 07:29||   2015-09-19 07:29|| Front Page Top

#4 now.. the moat with the sharks with friggin' lasers
Posted by Frank G 2015-09-19 10:32||   2015-09-19 10:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep, time for the moat. Let the Israelis do their part and Gazoo could be a sub-tropical island, without any of the fun parts...
Posted by Steve White 2015-09-19 11:36||   2015-09-19 11:36|| Front Page Top

#6 sharks with friggin' lasers

By Gaza, the eibiger villain
Releases patrollers most chilling:
Down south by the delta,
They're always gefillte,
Those jewfish equipped with tefillin!
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-09-19 14:29||   2015-09-19 14:29|| Front Page Top

#7 From Wikipedia, because I didn't know the word:

Der Eibiger Yied (The Eternal Jew, 1906) is a one-act play written by David Pinski. It was the first play ever performed in 1919 by the Habima Theater in Moscow. It is now a part of the repertory of the Habima Theater, the national theater of Israel.[1]

Rantburg U -- always in session. :-)
Posted by trailing wife 2015-09-19 14:59||   2015-09-19 14:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Frank G, can you make concrete with sea water?
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-09-19 15:37||   2015-09-19 15:37|| Front Page Top

#9 yes, but crappy concrete and the rebar would start corroding immediately
Posted by Frank G 2015-09-19 15:57||   2015-09-19 15:57|| Front Page Top

#10 yes, but crappy concrete and the rebar would start corroding immediately

Explains the roadway conditions near the coast in some parts of Central America.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-09-19 16:42||   2015-09-19 16:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Frank, for the Palestinians, I'm ok with that.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-09-19 16:42||   2015-09-19 16:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Hence my "fun" comment.

Concrete made with salt water or beach sand basically corrodes and crumbles and as Frank pointed out, if you use rebar then THAT corrodes too.

(see also Cape Cod)
Posted by Injun Gray2874 2015-09-19 17:18||   2015-09-19 17:18|| Front Page Top

#13 Let the Israelis do their part and Gazoo could be a sub-tropical island, without any of the fun parts...

This is by far the best thing I have read in a long, long time. Off for Margaritas - and I'll buy the first round of Tiki drinks.
Posted by swksvolFF 2015-09-19 19:08||   2015-09-19 19:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Stone the crows, what does "merry hob" mean?
Posted by Capsu78 2015-09-19 21:34||   2015-09-19 21:34|| Front Page Top

#15 From The Nethack Encyclopedia:

Hobgoblin. Used by the Puritans and in later times for
wicked goblin spirits, as in Bunyan's "Hobgoblin nor foul
friend", but its more correct use is for the friendly spirits
of the brownie type. In "A midsummer night's dream" a
fairy says to Shakespeare's Puck:
Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck:
Are you not he?
and obviously Puck would not wish to be called a hobgoblin
if that was an ill-omened word.
Hobgoblins are on the whole, good-humoured and ready to be
helpful, but fond of practical joking, and like most of the
fairies rather nasty people to annoy. Boggarts hover on the
verge of hobgoblindom. Bogles are just over the edge.
One Hob mentioned by Henderson, was Hob Headless who haunted
the road between Hurworth and Neasham, but could not cross
the little river Kent, which flowed into the Tess. He was
exorcised and laid under a large stone by the roadside for
ninety-nine years and a day. If anyone was so unwary as to
sit on that stone, he would be unable to quit it for ever.
The ninety-nine years is nearly up, so trouble may soon be
heard of on the road between Hurworth and Neasham.
[ A Dictionary of Fairies, by Katharine Briggs ]
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-09-19 21:46||   2015-09-19 21:46|| Front Page Top

#16 The Eighties: Had Gaza fled Hades,
To live as carefree lords and ladies --
Captivity over!
No more Jewish drover,
Just heaven down by the Euphrates.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-09-19 23:06||   2015-09-19 23:06|| Front Page Top

23:06 Zenobia Floger6220
22:00 CrazyFool
21:46 Thing From Snowy Mountain
21:34 Capsu78
19:35 Thing From Snowy Mountain
19:28 Thing From Snowy Mountain
19:08 swksvolFF
19:08 Thing From Snowy Mountain
19:02 Thing From Snowy Mountain
19:00 Rambler in Virginia
18:51 Jack Salami
17:58 swksvolFF
17:49 Thing From Snowy Mountain
17:48 mossomo
17:33 Tom
17:27 49 Pan
17:21 Silentbrick
17:18 Injun Gray2874
17:15 g(r)omgoru
16:42 Rambler in Virginia
16:42 Mullah Richard
16:36 KBK
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15:58 Frank G









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