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Springfield, OH?

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tbdtitl2002 said:
buckeyegrad said:
I live in Springfield, USA.
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Sweet! Do you know a family by the name "simpsons?" I used to go over there all the time and hang out when the father had his eyes pecked out by crows. He had this cool prescription and we would take way too much of it all the time.

AAAAHHHHHHHHHH! My thread has been hijacked! I demand to talk to whoever is in charge!
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buckeyegrad said:
I live in Springfield, USA.

It's a great city. We are probably most noted for our burning tire pile, old monorail track, and the nuclear power plant. Of course, we also take pride in our university--Go Atoms!--and our founder, Jedediah Springfield. Former President George H.W. Bush even lived here for a few weeks until he had a falling out with his neighbors.
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Not to mention the popsicle stick skyscraper
 
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Springfield - D'OH!

Don't Forget To Double-Check That The Tower You're Demolishing Will Fall The Right Way

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Judging by the panicked screams in this video, the folks demolishing a 275-foot smoke stack in Springfield, Ohio didn't expect it to snap power lines, destroy power equipment, or terrify children when it collapsed into the wrong direction. There were no injuries resulting from this incident, but 8,000 people did lose their electricity due to the power equipment being crushed.
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Hey, look! Springfield is in the news again. :shake:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42930061/ns/us_news-life/

Ohio hotel: Half-staff U.S. flag not mourning bin Laden

'It started getting out of hand. One person said we needed to be run out of town'


An Ohio hotel has been fending off angry phone calls because a broken rope on its flagpole led some to think the business was mourning the death of Osama bin Laden.

The rope left the U.S. flag stuck at half-staff outside a Hampton Inn in Springfield in western Ohio two days before bin Laden was killed, its assistant general manager Connie Smith told msnbc.com.

However, people started noticing the flag and assuming its position was in honor of bin Laden on Tuesday.

The hotel and its company received dozens of calls from people who were either upset or angry. One threatened to run the hoteliers out of town.

Smith, speaking by phone after the Springfield News-Sun first reported the story, said the flag had become frayed and the maintenance man was trying to replace it.

"He was trying to lower it down and it got stuck ... and it got stuck at half mast," Smith said. "It was raining, we've had non-stop rain for the past two or three weeks. The rope was slippery, it was so rainy, so windy, we just couldn't mess with it."

"Next thing I know we start getting calls like left and right, a couple of dozen at least," she added.

One prospective guest on Tuesday night said he wasn't going to stay at the hotel because of the flag, but relented when told it was a maintenance issue, rather than in honor of bin Laden.

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You get your ass up there and take the flag down at ALL costs. Don't give me the rope was wet and slippery bs. Get on a ladder and have people hold it while you take it down. Excuses come from the weak.
 
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To be honest if the flag hadn't been at half mast the the other half of Springfield's residents probably would have threatened violence.

Oh and tbdtitl2002 if you're still around...screw you and the rest of the little bastards who threw rocks at the bus every time we played at South! :pissed:
 
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BuckeyeMac;1918223; said:
You get your ass up there and take the flag down at ALL costs. Don't give me the rope was wet and slippery bs. Get on a ladder and have people hold it while you take it down. Excuses come from the weak.
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:lol:

"Yeah, we lost three good men trying to get that flag down, but what're ya gonna do? We didn't want to have a bunch of fucking moronic white folk thinking we were honoring Bin Laden. Ironic that now we'll be purpously flying the flag at half mast to honor the three fallen flag retrievers."
 
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