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    Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava

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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    I hate when that happens.

    /5th grade
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    I'm figuring the pilots were also on their laptops checking Facebook when they were supposed to be paying attention to Heavy Clouds(tm) and ZOMG!Lava.
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    Will no one consider the feelings of the lava? You struggle valiantly to emerge from the bowels of the earth, you're dying of heat stroke and just when you get some fresh air and you're finally cooling off, a plane lands on top of you.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    Thankfully, the lava only does periodic damage. So if you time your jumps right, it'll maybe only hit you once.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/19/09

    @Mount_Prion: I'm praying they were already in a power up.
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava

    In retrospect, using these as runway beacons might have been ill-advised.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    Luckily, Captain Adetokunbo "Sully" Achebe set that plane down like an indentured nanny setting a baby Afrikaner in a crib.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    11/19/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Really? I heard that Captain Achebe, who is also the Minister of Transportation, died in the heroic landing attempt. The unfortunate captain had control of US $145 million in rail and road construction funds that now can only be accessed with my help. That's what his cousin, Honorable Arms Akimbo, told me, anyway.
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    Captain Yllus declined to comment.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    Erm, I can't imagine anything more absolutely horrific than landing in lava. I'm sure upon seeing lava approaching out the window, the knowledge of such, would just short out all neurological function. Seriously. Lava has got to be the greatest fear of all second to....well, NOTHING! Well wait maybe....there's lava, and then perhaps being hit and then incinerated by a large meteor, but then, no, scratch that, because lava still wins.
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    Image of Dr. Nick Dr. Nick
    11/19/09

    @Spirit Fingers: "I can't imagine anything more absolutely horrific than landing in lava."

    Not even President Palin?
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/19/09

    @Dr. Nick: Hmmm, well. It's questionable if we'd all survive "President Palin," but it's a definite we'd not last a nosedive into friggin lava!

    (But President Palin would make me leave the country, and I think Costa Rica has lava. So there's that.)
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    Image of Dr. Nick Dr. Nick
    11/19/09

    @Spirit Fingers: we probably wouldn't survive President Palin, but it would be a longer, far more annoying process. At least with lava, you'd know it would be over quickly.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/19/09

    @Dr. Nick: If by annoying you mean bombarded daily by her stupidity and poorly constructed sentence structure. Seriously, does the woman not even read? I know she "wrote" a book, but has she never actually read the written word? It's like she grew out of Gomer Pyle's rib bone. Heh. Creationism.
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    Image of Dr. Nick Dr. Nick
    11/19/09

    @Spirit Fingers: She's the living embodiment of the Peter Principle, except in her case, she kept rising way, way past her level of incompetence.
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    11/19/09

    @Spirit Fingers: "I can't imagine anything more absolutely horrific than landing in lava." Sharks?
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/19/09

    @Xylo: Oooo, good one, sharks. Naw, I still say lava. People have survived shark attacks. While that's damn harrowing, I'm still thinking burning alive (flaying alive, bursting into flame alive!) tops being chomped on by a shark. At least you can fight a shark. If you're ever trapped by lava, what do you do? It's like being in the sun. Like the sun melted on your body. There's no coming back from that.

    In doing some quick research, the only way to survive, is to not be in a place with an erupting volcano. at all. Even tourists are told, "Look at this active volcano at your own risk, because it's like a nuclear reactor. with lava."
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    Image of New Gonzo Drifter New Gonzo Drifter
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    There are always plane accidents/incidents in Goma ... when they quote "lava," they actually mean the hardened lava outlying the area from the eruption of the volcano just outside Goma in '02 ...
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    Image of econdave econdave
    11/19/09

    @New Gonzo Drifter: I'm sure that makes everyone feel better. Instead of worrying about being incinerated in magma, they just have to worry about hitting hardened lava, crashing, and being incinerated from burning jet fuel.
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    We had to put the landing strip next to the volcanic fissure! All of the villagers were complaining about noise!
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    Image of LatestBy LatestBy
    08/13/09

    In reply to In Miracle of Reproductive Science, John Edwards Is Father of Rielle Hunter's Baby
    John & Rielle Plus One. Coming to TLC this fall!
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    08/13/09

    In reply to In Miracle of Reproductive Science, John Edwards Is Father of Rielle Hunter's Baby

    I always knew there was scandalous dirt he was hiding. It was evident in his nuclear thumbs. No one who enjoyed thumb-play to that degree wasn't didling some no-name chick who probably called him "stud" because obviously he believed himself to be a real playa of the boom-chicka-wah-wah caliber. Yeah, the thumb thing annoyed the shit out of me.
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    Image of kneetoe kneetoe
    08/13/09

    In reply to In Miracle of Reproductive Science, John Edwards Is Father of Rielle Hunter's Baby
    I wouldn't be that surprised if Edwards could reproduce asexually, like many other kinds of worms.
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    Image of lacieca01 lacieca01
    08/13/09

    In reply to In Miracle of Reproductive Science, John Edwards Is Father of Rielle Hunter's Baby
    This can mean only one thing: within days Edwards will announce he's withdrawing from the 2008 Presidential campaign.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    08/13/09

    In reply to In Miracle of Reproductive Science, John Edwards Is Father of Rielle Hunter's Baby
    Ah, the old "timing" method of contraception. Still reliable as ever.
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