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Subject: BS: fire truck From: open mike Date: 02 Apr 06 - 03:48 PM some are called fire engines some are ladders or aerials some are water tenders or tankers some airplanes that carry fire retardant are also called tankers helicopters carry buckets which they dip into lakes or rivers to apply on fires.. these are called bambi buckets. there is a story about one of these whcih scooped up a scuba diver unknown if the story is true. the diver died. if it is true. |
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Subject: RE: BS: fire truck From: Nigel Parsons Date: 02 Apr 06 - 03:58 PM I seem to remember this as the solution to one of those 'intelligence' tests where the testee can run a question & answer session (yes/no answers only) to get to the result. Something along the lines of: "A sportsman is found dead in a forest, How did he die?" CHEERS Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: fire truck From: Peace Date: 02 Apr 06 - 04:43 PM and rescue vehicles which carry no water but do carry cutters, spreaders (loosely called jaws of life), generators, rope rescue stuff, pylons, flares, burn blankets, saws, wooden blocking and firefighters the vehicles can be used as a command post when it's really hitting the fan keep well, open mike i think of you often and although i know you know what you're doing, i still worry for ya |
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Subject: RE: BS: fire truck From: John MacKenzie Date: 02 Apr 06 - 04:45 PM No thanks I had one last year! G. |
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Subject: RE: BS: fire truck From: bobad Date: 02 Apr 06 - 05:10 PM The remains mysteriously found deposited in the forest is also integral to the plot of the Mordecai Richler novel "Barney's Version." |
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Subject: RE: BS: fire truck From: Helen Date: 02 Apr 06 - 05:55 PM A firetruck in Oz, at least locally among the firies, is The Pump. A friend of ours started as a volunteer firie a couple of years ago and one day he was excitedly telling us that he was going drive The Pump for the first time. It took some explaining by him to help us to know what he was talking about. It's not just said in an ordinary way, it is said as if it were The Batmobile, or The Popemobile - i.e. a very special vehicle. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: fire truck From: Peace Date: 02 Apr 06 - 05:58 PM pumper is a truck that carries water it also needs to be hooked to a water supply fairly quickly, because it will spray 700 gallons of water in five or six minutes |
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Subject: RE: BS: fire truck From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 02 Apr 06 - 06:48 PM This thread is a copycat thread! I can tell because I started a few copycat threads myself before seeing the error of my ways and becoming a member of The Copycat Police. As such, it is my duty to inform you that this thread is "stoopid" and "dumbass" and "a waste of bandwidth". I know because I've had my own copycat threads described in exactly those same words by various |
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Subject: RE: BS: fire truck From: Peace Date: 02 Apr 06 - 06:56 PM Having only ever started fewer than 1,793 copycat threads myself, I can see what BWL is saying. This thread title is a takeoff on "Fun with mangled lyrics". |
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Subject: RE: BS: fire truck From: Once Famous Date: 02 Apr 06 - 10:15 PM For a long time I thought that a fire truck came along on an ambulance call in case the person who needed the ambulance had to be hosed down. |
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Subject: RE: BS: fire truck From: Dave Hanson Date: 02 Apr 06 - 10:40 PM Tory bankers, one and all. eric |
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Subject: RE: BS: fire truck From: Dave Swan Date: 02 Apr 06 - 11:05 PM Pedant alert. You're right Peace, modern pupmers do carry water. However, most pumpers (engines) you'll find fighting structure fires are capable of around 1500 gallons (US) per minute. We do need to find water quickly. D |
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Subject: RE: BS: fire truck From: catspaw49 Date: 02 Apr 06 - 11:47 PM Why Fire Engines Are Red ..... or at least used to beWell.............. 2 plus 2 is 4 and 3 times 4 is 12. There are 12 inches in a foot. A foot is a ruler. Queens are rulers. The Queen Mary is a ship. Ships sail on the sea. There are fish in the sea. The fish have fins. The Fins fought the Russians. Fire Engines are always rushin'........... And that's why fire engines are red! |
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Subject: RE: BS: fire truck From: John O'L Date: 03 Apr 06 - 12:30 AM OK, so why are police cars blue? |
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Subject: RE: BS: fire truck From: John O'L Date: 03 Apr 06 - 06:06 AM It's so obvious when you know... |
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Subject: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 03 Apr 06 - 08:52 AM So some of us were having an inconsequential and totally harmless conversation about fire trucks when the thread got CLOSED. Well, let's try again and see if we can avoid whatever awful faux pas caused the closing of that thread. Please keep all comments directly related to fire trucks. No snide remarks, innuendos, cussing, or anything else that might upset anyone. Okay? Now, I like fire trucks. They are red, only some of them are sort of a baby shit green color. (Ooops! Shouldn't have said that, should I?) Sometimes fire trucks are parked in firehouses. Other times they are parked in the parking lots of stuff-your-face-until-you-puke type buffet restaurants. I guess that's so the firemen don't have to run back to the station if a call comes in. Pretty good idea, huh? Having the fire truck right there, that is, not eating at the feed-bag buffet. That shit'll clog your arteries unless you stick with the salad and broiled fish. (Ooops! I think I said "shit" again. Sorry.) It's also kinda nice to have lots of trained emergency responders in the restaurant since most of the people eating there are grossly overweight and old as God and the odds of a whole roomful of 'em makin' it through a meal without at least one of 'em having a heart attack and going face-first into his mashed potatoes are pretty damned slim. (Dammit! I think I just insulted fat people and old people both in one overly long sentence. I just don't seem to be able to get this politically correct crap.)
-Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Peace Date: 03 Apr 06 - 10:32 AM Dave Swan: From the other thread that was closed-- I hear you. My 'spray it away in five or six minutes' was based on us here having pumpers that carry about 750 Imperial Gallons and having to conserve water for the first few minutes. After that, we need either tanker support or hydrant access like right now. You guys got some heavy machinery there. Keep safe and keep well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Apr 06 - 10:50 AM Your fire truck thread was closed? Was the topic too hot to handle? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Peace Date: 03 Apr 06 - 02:16 PM "No snide remarks, innuendos, cussing, or anything else that might upset anyone. Okay?" Fu#kin' A, BWL; I'm with you on that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: number 6 Date: 03 Apr 06 - 02:29 PM Well done bee-dubya !!! Outright Beeeeutiful LOL !! sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Peace Date: 03 Apr 06 - 02:30 PM But I gotta ask: What the hell kinda trouble maker starts a thread to copycat a copycat thread? Especially when the original copycat got the big C button. Like, fu#k, ya know? Have you no SHAME? Your thread deSERVES to be closed. You are MISBEHAVING. GO sit in the CORNer. NOW! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: number 6 Date: 03 Apr 06 - 02:35 PM Jeeez ... I'm feelin kinda guilty now for posting here. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Bert Date: 03 Apr 06 - 02:40 PM Well I just read the thread that was closed. While it was not a great literary effort I didn't see any reason for closing it. Could it have been a mistake? Enlighten us someone. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: bobad Date: 03 Apr 06 - 03:11 PM I believe JoeO declared a crackdown on copycat threads a while ago - perhaps the thread was ridden out of town by sheriff Joe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 03 Apr 06 - 03:14 PM I also would like to see an explanation of why the other thread was closed. And I would like to see said explanation posted under the actual member's name instead of some anonymous "Joe Clone" handle. But I don't know why I'm bothering with this post. We'll get a signed explanation when pigs fly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Jeri Date: 03 Apr 06 - 03:22 PM Joe didn't have a problem with a single copycat thread. It shouldn't have been closed, and it could have been re-opened, but not now that there's a second thread. The link to the original (closed) Fire Truck thread The dead SCUBA diver story from the other thread is bogus. See Snopes: Corpus Crispi |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 03 Apr 06 - 03:26 PM Oh, for Christ's fuckin sake! There are stupid witless copycat threads like the bunch of 'em Skipy started a few weeks ago and then there are cases like the "Friar Tuck/Fire Truck" pun that exhibit a fair bit of wit. Closing them just because they happened to have been inspired by a pun is the height of stupidity. Joe and these "clone" people, whoever the fuck they are, need to step back and take a hard look at what's really going around here before they drive away the small handful of people with senses of humor that haven't left already. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Apr 06 - 03:27 PM I borrowed this from the other thread: This Thread Is Closed. But you can drive your truck around this roadblock. Go for it, BWL! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Bert Date: 03 Apr 06 - 03:29 PM Just what good did it do to close the thread, apart from pissing people off? Or was the the intention? The dead scuba diver story is more aptly described as urban legend than bogus. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Peace Date: 03 Apr 06 - 03:31 PM "Joe and these "clone" people, whoever the fuck they are, need to step back and take a hard look at what's really going around here before they drive away the small handful of people with senses of humor . . ." And THAT ain't funny. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: number 6 Date: 03 Apr 06 - 03:34 PM Jeeeezuz ... I'm not laffing. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Peace Date: 03 Apr 06 - 03:44 PM "Joe didn't have a problem with a single copycat thread. It shouldn't have been closed . . .". The question is, "Why WAS it closed?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Bill D Date: 03 Apr 06 - 03:52 PM ??? wow...that was a strange thread to have been closed. Enlighten us, Joe...or whomeever. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Jeri Date: 03 Apr 06 - 04:01 PM BWL, what makes you think you're talking to 'people' instead of 'person'. I wouldn't have closed it, Bert wouldn't have, and nobody should have. It also would have been easy to re-open a thread that shouldn't have been closed in the first place - message in the Help forum, PM to Joe. Apparently bitching is more satisfying for some of you than getting a mistake fixed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Sorcha Date: 03 Apr 06 - 04:27 PM Weird..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Bert Date: 03 Apr 06 - 04:46 PM A PM to Joe doesn't anwer the question for everbody else. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Peace Date: 03 Apr 06 - 07:19 PM Do not go gently into that good night . . . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: bobad Date: 03 Apr 06 - 07:51 PM Rage, rage against the dying of the light |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 03 Apr 06 - 08:26 PM This Thread is Still Open. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: gnu Date: 03 Apr 06 - 08:27 PM Okay then. It APPEARS, in my OPINION, that there is the POSSIBILITY that, a mistake MAY have been made. Obiously, IF such did actually occur, it will get corrected, I am sure. Forgive me if I sound like the voice of reason... lord knows I very seldom have any reason to seem to make sense, as you well know, but, perhaps all this will make sense when explained? If it is explained. If it is not explained, well, there is no sense in trying to figure it out. I hope this helps. dearabbyveryconfusedgnu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 03 Apr 06 - 08:45 PM You're right, gnu, it does APPEAR, in your OPINION, that there is the POSSIBILITY that, a mistake MAY have been made. And it APPEARS, in my OPINION, that there is the POSSIBILITY that, a rogue moderator is using his position to close threads and delete posts in personal vendettas against other members. Until such time as whoever actually closed the thread identifies himself and either confirms that it was a MISTASKE or gives a reasonable explanation for why it was closed, I will continue to hold that OPINION. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: John O'L Date: 03 Apr 06 - 10:05 PM It's my fault. Sorry to you all. I have that effect on threads. Previously they have just dropped off the menu 24 hours after I make my post, but now it seems they are getting a bit of hurry-up. I have a similar effect on checkout queues. As soon as I stand in line the cash register goes bung, or someone presents an item with a faulty barcode. I live in a constant state of impending breakdown. Get used to it. I'm here to stay. But as I said, sorry. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 03 Apr 06 - 10:16 PM That doesn't happen to me, John. I usually get behind someone who's buying three shopping carts full of stuff for a church or charitable organization and who gives her sales tax exemption card to the cashier after it's all been rung up and bagged. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: John O'L Date: 03 Apr 06 - 10:18 PM Oh yeah, I'm familiar with that one. Done it myself in fact... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: GUEST,the most scared person ever !!!!!!!!! Date: 03 Apr 06 - 10:19 PM The rogue vigelante clone strikes again.. be he/her myth or fearful grim reality.. we mere mortals must be all most terriblesome scaredyfied.. ????? eeeek!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: GUEST,khandu Date: 03 Apr 06 - 10:19 PM Okay...the thread was closed because I, khandu, King of All Mississippi, demanded that it be closed! "Why?" you ask, incredulously... Two reasons...damned good reasons! One...John O'Lennaine posted to the thread. That in itself is reason enough to shut the whole board down. Shut it down before it self destructs! He has that effect. I have seen it and I shall endeavor to shut down every thread upon which he posts his "kill the thread" messages. Two...(Which is really the number one reason though it is number two) The first rule of fire truck threads has ever been, is now, and shall ever be "They must include the "Firetruck" stanza from Leon Albo's "The Spelling Song". The original copy-cat Fire Truck thread, which was shut down, did not abide by the rule. It did not have the stanza included. Now, in order to meet the requirements, which is really unnecessary since this thread will soon die anyway since John O'Lennaine has posted to it, I shall now include the necessary stanza. "What starts with an "F" and ends with a "U-C-K"? "What starts with an "F" and ends with a "U-C-K"? "When your house starts burning down You'd better hope it comes around" "What starts with an "F" and ends with a "U-C-K"? "FIRETRUCK" khandu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: John O'L Date: 04 Apr 06 - 12:07 AM So Khandu, in his infinite wisdom, has rectified the first fault (which is second) of the first thread in the second, while the second fault (which is first) of the first and second threads remains effective (if such a word isn't oxymoronic in this context). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: open mike Date: 04 Apr 06 - 02:15 AM will the REEL copy cat thread, please stand up. hey who said you could close my friar tuck/fire truck thread? and why does this one get to stay open? it just might be time to put the wet stuff on the red stuff.. if this were a real fire truck it could squirt you with 800 gallons of water at 1250 gallons per minute..then you would be sorry!~! welcome back Swanno--glad to see you rose up from the ranks of the seriously loafing and jumped to attention... code three! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: Joe Offer Date: 04 Apr 06 - 03:19 AM Well, the Clone said his trigger finger slipped and hit the "close" link. I combined threads, and the Clone was quite embarrassed and apologetic and says he really likes fire engines a lot. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread From: John O'L Date: 04 Apr 06 - 04:01 AM Well that makes the pole even slipperier. What do we do with all this righteous indignation? 'Slipperier'? |
