Comments on: Tornado snapshot from 1943 http://boingboing.net/2012/08/02/tornado-snapshot-from-1943.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: garyg2 http://boingboing.net/2012/08/02/tornado-snapshot-from-1943.html#comment-1497829 garyg2 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=174588#comment-1497829 Now I want to go and play Godspeed! You Black Emperor for some reason. Now I want to go and play Godspeed! You Black Emperor for some reason.

]]> By: Teller http://boingboing.net/2012/08/02/tornado-snapshot-from-1943.html#comment-1496980 Teller Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=174588#comment-1496980  My! Pretty!  My! Pretty!

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/08/02/tornado-snapshot-from-1943.html#comment-1496932 Antinous / Moderator Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:24:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=174588#comment-1496932 I certainly looked at the post, threw my head back and screamed DOROTHY! I certainly looked at the post, threw my head back and screamed DOROTHY!

]]> By: mobobo http://boingboing.net/2012/08/02/tornado-snapshot-from-1943.html#comment-1496672 mobobo Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=174588#comment-1496672 where? o yep ta. where? o yep ta.

]]> By: EH http://boingboing.net/2012/08/02/tornado-snapshot-from-1943.html#comment-1496668 EH Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:06:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=174588#comment-1496668 The reply button is over there. The reply button is over there.

]]> By: mobobo http://boingboing.net/2012/08/02/tornado-snapshot-from-1943.html#comment-1496647 mobobo Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=174588#comment-1496647 it is a beautiful photo, and so is your shoop it is a beautiful photo, and so is your shoop

]]> By: David Pescovitz http://boingboing.net/2012/08/02/tornado-snapshot-from-1943.html#comment-1496640 David Pescovitz Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=174588#comment-1496640 AWESOME. That made my day. AWESOME. That made my day.

]]> By: Cowicide http://boingboing.net/2012/08/02/tornado-snapshot-from-1943.html#comment-1496630 Cowicide Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=174588#comment-1496630 fixed fixed

]]> By: Sylvia http://boingboing.net/2012/08/02/tornado-snapshot-from-1943.html#comment-1496609 Sylvia Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=174588#comment-1496609 I read it that way at first, as well. I had to re-read it three times and remember that the description was probably written in 1943, when newspapers structured their stories very differently.  I read it that way at first, as well. I had to re-read it three times and remember that the description was probably written in 1943, when newspapers structured their stories very differently. 

]]> By: mobobo http://boingboing.net/2012/08/02/tornado-snapshot-from-1943.html#comment-1496597 mobobo Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=174588#comment-1496597 your right of course, I shall hang my head in shame. but reading it sequentially it sort of does come across like that...to me. your right of course, I shall hang my head in shame.
but reading it sequentially it sort of does come across like that…to me.

]]> By: Sam Archer http://boingboing.net/2012/08/02/tornado-snapshot-from-1943.html#comment-1496598 Sam Archer Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=174588#comment-1496598 Yeah, I'd have gone with something like, "Wow, they should be more careful with their construction health & safety". Yeah, I’d have gone with something like, “Wow, they should be more careful with their construction health & safety”.

]]> By: David Pescovitz http://boingboing.net/2012/08/02/tornado-snapshot-from-1943.html#comment-1496584 David Pescovitz Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=174588#comment-1496584 I know you're trying to be funny, but you would have been more successful if the sentence had implied that the tornado lasted for a week. It doesn't. I know you’re trying to be funny, but you would have been more successful if the sentence had implied that the tornado lasted for a week. It doesn’t.

]]> By: mobobo http://boingboing.net/2012/08/02/tornado-snapshot-from-1943.html#comment-1496565 mobobo Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=174588#comment-1496565 "It took 400 carpenters, working around the clock one week to rebuild the buildings. Two were killed and 200 injured." If I were either the two killed or one of the 200 injured I am sure that during a week long tornado I would have downed tools and hid. “It took 400 carpenters, working around the clock one week to rebuild the buildings. Two were killed and 200 injured.”

If I were either the two killed or one of the 200 injured I am sure that during a week long tornado I would have downed tools and hid.

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