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   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On 24 Dec 2025 07:02:25 GMT   
   rbowman  wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:40:14 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >   
   > > On 2025-12-23, rbowman  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:18:17 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>> On 2025-12-23, rbowman  wrote:   
   > >>>   
   > >>>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:59:00 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>>     The USA has maybe THE biggest dick in the world, prominently   
   > >>>>>     figured at the govt center in DC. You can ascend to the tip,   
   > >>>>>     symbolic sperm   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Smelter_Stack   
   > >>>   
   > >>> We ran into weather while flying in Montana a few years ago.   
   > >>> We decided to set down at the nearest airstrip and wait for the   
   > >>> weather to pass.  That airstrip happened to be at Anaconda -   
   > >>> we dodged the stack on the way in.  It's an impressive landmark.   
   > >>   
   > >> When I was coming back from six days on the road I was happy to see it.   
   > >> It wasn't home, but close enough.   
   > >>   
   > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHbGhEfnh2E   
   > >>   
   > >> Six days is optimistic; I was usually out for 3 weeks.   
   > >   
   > > Yeah, but it doesn't make as good a song.   
   >   
   > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G1j7l-aAxA   
   > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcI08VY0yhE   
   >   
   > Other trucker favorites...   
   >   
   > https://faculty.rpi.edu/john-tichy   
   >   
   > That's a CV most former rockers don't have :)   
   >   
   Brian May (a guitarist in a band known as "Queen", m'lud) is a qualified   
   astrophysicist, IIRC.   
      
   Erm why is all this banter being posted to afc and colm?   
      
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