Eerie Coincidences #94, or, The Fool Tries to Split the Beer Atom Again

[Mr Manifesto]

In this (http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34483) thread, The Fool and I discussed the folly of trying to split the beer atom, and the consequent ill-effects such an undertaking may have on the sh!thole steel town of Port Kembla.

Obviously, The Fool has had second thoughts about repeating this particular experiment:

Firefighters bring Port Kembla under control (http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1033383.htm)

The blaze is being fuelled by millions of litres of ethanol, but emergency workers have stopped it spreading to nearby fuel tanks.

There are only two reasons why you are still pursuing this... erm... fool's dream, Fool. Possibly you still think that the dream of free energy with beer as the by-product is still attainable. If so, give it up... It's a dream...

However, if you just want to level Port Kembla, do you have a bank account number I can pay donations in to?

[Zep]

I'm truly surprised that you two have been playing with beer atoms again. You were told to put them back in the box and away, and come to dinner.

I suspect the "ethanol" at Port Kembla is from some unemployed refinery worker's moonshine still that was left running unattended overnight.

However, the "Level Port Kembla Fund" is a GOOD idea. Got an ABN yet?

[The Fool]

Originally posted by Zep
I'm truly surprised that you two have been playing with beer atoms again. You were told to put them back in the box and away, and come to dinner.

I suspect the "ethanol" at Port Kembla is from some unemployed refinery worker's moonshine still that was left running unattended overnight.

However, the "Level Port Kembla Fund" is a GOOD idea. Got an ABN yet?
In My youth Port Kembla was predominantly Italian and to a lesser extent Macedonian, some tough lads, you were OK as long as you did not transgress the unwritten law...Unfortunately nobody was ever able to figure out what the unwritten law was so most nights seemed to end in a rolling ruck up and down the main street....

Funny thing, in all that time there I never heard a gunshot or saw a knife. It was more a sport than anything else..... The local heavy industies and the mines were blasting along and the place was awash with money....We would go there for the Food, Beer and trouble. It was a real edgy place, always something dodgy going on.

Now its a busted wasteland inhabited by winos and street prostitutes... Every so often the council goes through and sweeps up and plants some shrubs and declares Port kembla will be revived. Unfortunately they have not developed shrubs that thrive on Cig butts and urine. Last time I went to the old pub that is still there I had half my cigarettes begged off me by the street girls and junkies before I even got there...... Personally I would have walked away and let the fire have the place.

[Zep]

Hasn't BHP been closed down there for some time now? VERY little happening there? It's a bloody eyesore for a start, is all I can say, so a few well-placed sticks of gelly should do it. Worth more as scrap iron.

But what to put in its place...?? The John Howard Home for Retired Liberal Statesmen with Big Eyebrows??

[The Fool]

Originally posted by Zep
Hasn't BHP been closed down there for some time now? VERY little happening there? It's a bloody eyesore for a start, is all I can say, so a few well-placed sticks of gelly should do it. Worth more as scrap iron.

BHP is still there but has shed over half the jobs....Mostly the semi and unskilled varieties. This effect has rolled down to the service providers and those that lived off the fat paypackets of the locals.




But what to put in its place...?? The John Howard Home for Retired Liberal Statesmen with Big Eyebrows??
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Anything but another damn golfcourse... Currently it looks a bit like the American Airforce heard a whisper that Osama drinks there...Every second building in the mainstreet is abandoned and derelict... Its sad really, to see the old Italians and Macedonians sitting outside the coffee shop talking about how it once was.

[Mr Manifesto]

Jesus! It's still going! (http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1033603.htm)

[The Fool]

Originally posted by Mr Manifesto
Jesus! It's still going! (http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1033603.htm)
The whole couded night sky to the east of my house was glowing red last night...quite spooky. I think the fire will go out when the fuel runs out. Doesn't appear that the sum total of all the local fire departments has been able to have any effect on a fueled fire of this size.

[Zep]

There are going to be memorial services attended by all the derros in NSW tonight...

[Mr Manifesto]

Originally posted by Zep
There are going to be memorial services attended by all the derros in NSW tonight...

"It was a tragedy. I had to fight my way through three hundred metres of thick, acrid smoke to get to some ethanol that hadn't lit yet. Boy, I got blind that night."