JERSEY CITY (CBS)―The Federal Aviation Administration says a piece of hot metal that crashed through the roof of a Jersey City business did not come from an airplane. FAA spokeswoman Arlene Salac says investigators examined the metal and determined it is made of cast iron, which is not used in airplanes. She says it’s up to local authorities to determine where the object came from. Owner Al Smith was fork-lifting a sofa onto a wooden storage platform around 10 a.m. at his moving company when he heard a sound he thought was a bomb.
A piece of warm metal the size of a brick came crashing through the roof just steps from where he was standing. It splintered a wooden beam and crashed into a shelf. Smith tells WCBS radio that no one was injured. He plans to buy a lottery ticket, saying it’s his lucky day.
He says the metal is about the size of a brick and came crashing through the roof around 10 a.m.
Officials at the scene also confirmed to WCBS radio that the metal was too hot to touch for about 30 minutes after crashing through the roof.
Uncle Patso, I’ll assume you meant the complementary definition of mensch. Thank you, sir.
Bobbo: I was well aware of the controversy concerning the Bush contribution to the war. I had just not heard the term chickenhawk used in this way. I try to read much more than my medical journals. I’ve finally finished the entire “Dick and Jane” series and am starting the Hardy Boys. There’s a lot of words in the Hardy Boys – I do wish they had more pictures. Thanks for the referral but The Urban Dictionary is where I automatically went when I did look up the term.
As for my chickenhawkishness? I was in Viet Nam with the IV Army 6th Btn 21st FA. I was a sergeant E-5 but my friends called me “Doc.” My Honorable Discharge is “signed” by Ricky Nixon. I treated everything from bullet wounds to dripping dicks. In fact, didn’t I see you in my venereal warts clinic? How’s that clump round your anus doing?
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it’s a tooth from some sort of mulching machine, that explains why it was hot.
oh sorry I forgot this thread was about bush…
#21 Nimby
Damn that last part is hilarious. Great way to start my day.
Maybe a boiler blew up somewhere…
#21, Mr. Nimby,
Sir, or is that Dr. Sir, may I recommend the Nancy Drew series? They were published along side the Hardy Boys yet have a certain “hot” appeal to them not to be found with the Hardy Boys. Read one and you will breathlessly jump into the next book.
Well, not really. I lied. But once, many years ago when I lay in bed with a broken leg, that was all that was left in the house to read.
Hey I like that picture. It so adequately summed up all that has been wrong for the past eight years.
It has only been the past year, or so, that I have heard “chicken hawk” used to refer to anyone other than a non-military person promoting war. As I recall, the term came about in the years leading up to the War of 1812 when some New England merchants and ship owners were upset that the English Navy was kidnapping American sailors for their own ships.
Hot “cast iron” falling from the sky? Can you say “meteorite”? That’s what they look like — just a melted cast iron brick.
(now back to the real topic…)
You guys are killing me. In a good way….
BTW..I thought everyone knew what a chickenhawk was..the malady was rampant among Bush’s staff, except for perhaps Powell.
Concerning the continued Bush bashing, as long as I can feel the pain of the last 8 + years, I dont feel compelled to give this guy a pass, or sympathy, maybe as time goes on……….but I doubt it. Hell, I’m still grousing about Nixon.
The last 8 years are absolutely nothing compared the last 8 weeks. Yikes. We’re circling the drain and augering in.
Dear Mr Fusion: Thank you for the suggestion. I’m always looking for new literary adventures. Some recommended a book apparently written by a Greek god called “Green Eggs and Ham.” I thought it was a cookbook. The characters were well drawn and fully fleshed out but I think the story may have been – poetry! It seemed like every line had a rhyme or nine.
Dear Mr McCullough: As part of my apology I will not take you to task for Bush-bashing (at least for a while). But you keep your hands off Dick Nixon. As I said before – he let me out of the Army! He was a great man!