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re: 100 years ago today, a 35 mph, 25 foot wave of molasses killed 21 people in Boston

Posted on 1/15/19 at 8:23 am to
Posted by NYCAuburn
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Member since Feb 2011
57012 posts
Posted on 1/15/19 at 8:23 am to
quote:

2.3 million gallons


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a customer asked you to build a pool that would hold a million-gallons, then they had better have a big yard! You would need to build a pool about 267 feet long (almost as long as a football field), 50 feet wide, and 10 feet deep.


Thats a lot of molasses
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
134659 posts
Posted on 1/15/19 at 8:24 am to
Parting is such sweet sorrow
Posted by eddieray
Lafayette
Member since Mar 2006
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Posted on 1/15/19 at 8:36 am to
Posted by ctiger69
Member since May 2005
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Posted on 1/15/19 at 9:16 am to
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
30264 posts
Posted on 1/15/19 at 9:48 am to
Sweet sassy molassy get out the checkbook and pay grandma for the rub down.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299716 posts
Posted on 1/15/19 at 9:57 am to
My nightmare. I have a phobia about sticky sticky food on mr. I can't imagine being engulfed.
Posted by tommy2tone1999
St. George, LA
Member since Sep 2008
7795 posts
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:00 am to
SWEET!
Posted by ZappBrannigan
Member since Jun 2015
7692 posts
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:00 am to
Right in the face.

This post was edited on 1/15/19 at 10:06 am
Posted by LSUGrad9295
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2007
37938 posts
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:07 am to
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Obviously there were people there that were slower than molasses.



Yessir, we have a winner.

Enjoy yet another upvote.
Posted by CamdenTiger
Member since Aug 2009
65809 posts
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:30 am to
35 MPH molasses probably not on my list of ways to go, but there it is....
Posted by Jor Jor The Dinosaur
Chicago, IL
Member since Nov 2014
7467 posts
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:42 am to
Posted by WAR TIGER
Death Valley
Member since Oct 2005
4300 posts
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:57 am to
What a sweet way to go...
Posted by stealthy1
Member since Aug 2007
558 posts
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:59 am to
Sweet Jesus..!

No Boston Baked Beans that weekend...
Posted by SwatMitchell
Austin, TX
Member since Jan 2005
2329 posts
Posted on 1/15/19 at 11:01 am to
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Now that's what I call a sticky situation.


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marks the 100th anniversary of its most peculiar disaster


Too soon - not too soon...
This post was edited on 1/15/19 at 11:02 am
Posted by Patfic15
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2018
4367 posts
Posted on 1/15/19 at 10:01 pm to
Just saw this on Drunk History
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