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Au, that's too bad.

I would love to see Launchpad McQuack make a come back. What an awesome character.

Gneiss. Hope he didn't schist himself before he died.

Slow news day?

The last seconds of his life are said to have been a duck-blur.

TA: Guy Gois, 56, "was taking soil samples from an excavated pit during heavy rainfall and it is reported that the pit caved in and trapped him underneath,"

That was stupid. Excavated pit + heavy rainfall = lets go digging?

Could provide some help bringing him back to the realm perhaps.

Pilate: Gneiss. Hope he didn't schist himself before he died.

Don't be so tuff on the guy. He was in quite the corundum.

So I see there's no clouds with a silver lining in this story.

culebra: Pilate: Gneiss. Hope he didn't schist himself before he died.

Don't be so tuff on the guy. He was in quite the corundum.

Sill, he should have known better.

Driver: Au, that's too bad.

What you did there, I sees it.

FTA:

Guy Gois, 56, ...

?

culebra: The last seconds of his life are said to have been a duck-blur.

Well played. I snickered.

That's like rule #1 of trenching safety courses. Guess he slept through the safety courses.

At least he didn't have a tragic smelting accident

I blame Glomgold.

/Couldn't be Magica. She couldn't give a dime.
//Slash-ies! Oooooh!

Gold, and money, can be a tricky thing. I remember this one time at the beginning of summer vacation when my two brothers and I were completely without money. We worked a small cleaning business to earn a little pocket change, but then we ran across a scientist who had invented a duplication ray. We used this duplication ray to duplicate our money, and spread it around town. Unfortunately, we produced a bubble of hyperinflation in our local area, and all money became essentially worthless. Fortunately, the duplicated money eventually imploded and everything went back to normal. It is a shame that few people have learned from our little animated experience.

i thought it was the warriors dude

Tragic, but accidents and/or unsafe working habits happen.
I have been in pits in the Guyanese jungle with near-vertical walls that have held up in the tropical weather for decades. Others might not last days. Depends on the structual stability of the pit wall material, and this geo made a bad call.

What I want to know is does this affect my investments?

Fortunately, the local news does a better reporting job, and the company he was working for is River Gold Guyana Inc., which must a local company and/or private. Not listed on any of the North American markets anyway.

http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/news/local/04/05/french-geologist-dies-in-pit- c ave-in/

Is it bad I read that as "Gynecologist dies in gold pit" ?

There's this stuff called "shoring" that developed nations use in excavations.

i grew up watching Duck Tales :)

Life is like a hurricane here in Duckburg
Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes - it's a duck blur
You might solve a mystery or rewrite history

IntotheAbyss: Is it bad I read that as "Gynecologist dies in gold pit" ?

well, was he digging for gold in the wrong place?

IntotheAbyss: Is it bad I read that as "Gynecologist dies in gold pit" ?

Geologist / Gynecologist....same thing, they both fool around in holes.

/is my seat next to the fiery pit secure yet?

Rani13: IntotheAbyss: Is it bad I read that as "Gynecologist dies in gold pit" ?

Geologist / Gynecologist....same thing, they both fool around in holes.

Well, they do define who we are and where we're going.

I'm a geologist and I am getting a kick out of these replies...

You should all try and be more gneiss...a geologist just died. It's chertainly a shame.

Jonesy Boogieman: TA: Guy Gois, 56, "was taking soil samples from an excavated pit during heavy rainfall and it is reported that the pit caved in and trapped him underneath,"

That was stupid. Excavated pit + heavy rainfall = lets go digging?

He was a French geologist.

He assumed, reasonably, that he'd be able to run away sufficiently fast.

Wow, sorry to hear this. Geologist was a stand up guy and a great Farker. Met the guy the day he helped me move when my ex-wife left me.

/Pours one out for a home boy
//Heya Geo

I blame this man!



/No Mr Bond, I expect you to die.

culebra: Pilate: Gneiss. Hope he didn't schist himself before he died.

Don't be so tuff on the guy. He was in quite the corundum.

You, sir, win.

/Geologists know what makes the bedrock

If only they had someone who could inspect the structural integrity of the pit...

Courtroom Wolf: If only they had someone who could inspect the structural integrity of the pit

Geologists leave that kind of stuff to the geological engineers. And chances are that this was an old abandoned pit, or an artisinal mining operation that is not condoned or controlled by government regulations (but is the way a lot of Guyanese eke out a living).

His stratigraphy probably found his Moho.

Rumors of my demise are highly exaggerated. That poor guy, on the other hand, got the shaft.

Heard when they pulled the guy out of the ground he looked just like this.



/but dead

Awesome alternate Ducktales intro (new window)

... Possibly NSFW/NSFL

Of quartz, this is made all the more tragic by the fact that he won't be cummingtonite.

Pilate: Of quartz, this is made all the more tragic by the fact that he won't be cummingtonite.

Please! I was having a gneiss time until I read this.

Click

Just because, for some reason, it puts a smile on my face. (Turn on Annotations)

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