Date:         Fri, 4 Nov 2011 18:46:41 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      mea culpa (a little bit) was Re: F/ White Salmon River damn
              "burst"
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca>
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Ok, Alistair, I did fail to notice that you used "damn" rather than "dam."  But, in my circles, most dams are just a means of damning a stream.  That is, once the stream is dammed, it is damned.  Maybe this one will recover eventually, now that the damned dam is gone.

mcneely

---- Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Good grief Dave, you didn't even notice the spelling of dam in the subject line. Wouldn't that have been a bit of a giveaway?
>
> The dam did violently fail btw, due to a charge of explosive. Did you hear the klaxon and the "fire in the hole" warning?
>
> Boy, Friday subjects are fun eh?
>
> :)
>
> alistair
>
>
> On 2011-11-04, at 2:16 PM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>
> > ---- Michael Snow <slowmachine82@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >> Burst, broke, breached, blowed up, dee-stroyed...  All I want to know,
> >> Alistair, is if there is any more room on your butt for me to ride, too.
> >>  If you have to throw any of these other nit-pickers off, I can wait
> >> until next Frydae.  Back to making pizza.
> >
> > Good grief.  A post was made that sounded as if a dam had violently failed.  I pointed out that it had not, but rather had been intentionally opened.  Now a lot of crap is being broadcast about it.  Good grief ............. .  mcneely
>

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David McNeely