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Posted by: James	10/10/2007 11:56 AM
As you can sort of make out from the picture below, there was a truck full of gas tanks that you see on the highways often. What struck me were the warning signs on this particular truck. There were two “competing” signs – one saying Flammable and the other saying Non-Flammable. Call me crazy but Flammable trumps Non-Flammable any day of the week. I’m sure this was simply an oversight by this truck but if there really were non-explosive items on the truck bed, they really don’t alarm me if that truck was ever in an accident. It’s the 200+ gas canisters that could recreate the Spanish Armada that I’m concerned about.

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Re: Flammable trumps all	By Milo on 10/10/2007 12:24 PM
Hey rocket scientist- you load the non flammable on that side and flammable on the other! This makes a huge difference in the event of an accident - one side will be engulfed in flame with multiple large projectiles, while the other side will have only large projectiles. Obviously, the fire knows where to stop thanks to the signs.

Re: Flammable trumps all	By Ian on 10/10/2007 2:35 PM
Good job, Milo- I was about to say a similar thing- there are other reasons why they have those signs- has to do with how they unload, etc. You can tell that James was a business major, and not engineering:) He might not be a rocket scientist, but he was smart enough to pass flunking Flanagan's class!

Re: Flammable trumps all	By Ian on 10/10/2007 2:52 PM
One more reason why I always carry a fire extinguisher in my car!

Re: Flammable trumps all	By James on 10/10/2007 2:56 PM
Flunkin' Flanagan - now there's a name from the past! And I, like most of Bradley's business students, barely passed that darn class!

Re: Flammable trumps all	By Ian on 10/10/2007 3:08 PM
I was the rocket scientist- I AVOIDED that class- LOL

Re: Flammable trumps all	By Milo on 10/10/2007 3:27 PM
OK - I only remember Griffin and Baer, what did Flanagan teach? The only class that gave me trouble was stupid logistics, but then again, when you don't go to class, you make it a bit harder on yourself!

Re: Flammable trumps all	By James on 10/10/2007 3:29 PM
Flanagan taught economics.

Re: Flammable trumps all	By Ian on 10/10/2007 3:40 PM
Griffin and Baer teach marketing- Grifffin was my marketing professor

Re: Flammable trumps all	By Ian on 10/10/2007 3:48 PM
Professor Sawyer trumped them all because he taught me how to spell <br>flauccinauccinihilipilification- the carpet on the third floor of the shelter still has marks of my pacing, trying to memorize that word-

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By Erich on 10/11/2007 12:07 PM

Ok, I was gonna say the same thing about the ones on the right being the flammable ones (prob explains the metal "box" they're in too) - but what everyone else has failed to notice is the fact that James the Dipshit is driving on the highway, presumably around the 65-70 MPH range with only one hand, behind a truck laden with explosive gas while attempting to snap photos with his camera phone. It's dunder heads like you who cause multi-car, movie style accidents on the highways and make the rest of us late for work. Keep the camera phone in your pocket Douche Lick! ;)

Re: Flammable trumps all	By James on 10/11/2007 12:28 PM
Erich, you sir guessed wrong. The pics I take are normally when I'm crawling at 5 mph in rush hour.

Re: Flammable trumps all	By Erich on 10/11/2007 5:27 PM
Ok, I see brake lights, but you are still a Douche lick...<slurp>!

Re: Flammable economic theory	By Syl on 10/12/2007 1:23 AM
I have a minor in Economics. It has served me well since I first time saw fit to mock Trickle-down bs as exactly that. The college boyfriend and I had our first political "discussion". He was (and still is, I assume) an idiot.

Re: Flammable trumps all	By TSAC on 10/12/2007 3:09 PM
It never seems to amaze me the depth to which Jimmy Boy will go to provoke thought through his blog on matters. Even those as important as flammable and non-flammable. Ah, what a master of Socratic method?

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