strangeguitar: uhmm...hehe, I just have a question..hehe, is this a GOD damn??

beat me to it

one-ton sandbags brought in with helicopters

That sounds kind of cool, actually

That sandbag was made by the lowest bidder...sleep tight

"After midnight, using one-ton sandbags brought in with helicopters."

You should try a verb somewhere in there...they're fun.

You see, THIS is why I built my house entirely out of inflatable rafts and flotation vests. They all said I was crazy. They all laughed at me. BUT WHO IS LAUGHING NOW?

There was an uncommon amount of detail in that article.

Makes headline sense no this.

Judasbot: "After midnight, using one-ton sandbags brought in with helicopters."

You should try a verb somewhere in there...they're fun.

You don't see any verbs in there?

"After midnight, using one-ton sandbags brought in with helicopters."

Submitter:

BillaBong: You see, THIS is why I built my house entirely out of inflatable rafts and flotation vests. They all said I was crazy. They all laughed at me. BUT WHO IS LAUGHING NOW?

Ummm, your neighbor with the pet porcupine ?

Tenses motherfarker, use them.

They do that when Kent State might be a problem.

One Bad Apple: That sandbag was made by the lowest bidder...sleep tight

They are not military issue sandbags, they are all provided by the state. They have tags that indicate they are made in Indonesia

Goodpancakes: One Bad Apple: That sandbag was made by the lowest bidder...sleep tight

They are not military issue sandbags, they are all provided by the state. They have tags that indicate they are made in Indonesia

Your sandbag was made by a seven year old sweatshop slave...well, at least you don't have to worry about it being a "friday" job

Either it will work or it won't. And it was the National Guard, not the Army Corps of Engineers, so at least there's that.

Judasbot: "After midnight, using one-ton sandbags brought in with helicopters."

You should try a verb somewhere in there...they're fun.

You should try reading in context, so that you can grasp the meaning of sentences construed with implied verbs and phrases, which mimic natural speech patterns, are easily understood, and spice up prose . . . it's fun.

er, should've said "constructed," not "construed."

/also, am not submitter

Even an idiot can make a sandbag, and I don't think the sandbags would survive the trip to the dam if they were that weak.

Is there anything worth saving in North Dakota?

Grammatical tense is a temporal linguistic quality expressing the time at, during, or over which a state or action denoted by a verb occurs.

Now that 6th grade grammar class is over, lets remember it's a Fark.com headline, it's not like this is gonna be on the front page of the Times tomorrow.

So, lighten up, ukexpat

///subtard

Have they notified anyone (potentially) downstream?

picturescrazy: Judasbot: "After midnight, using one-ton sandbags brought in with helicopters."

You should try a verb somewhere in there...they're fun.

You don't see any verbs in there?

mama's_tasty_foods:
You should try reading in context, so that you can grasp the meaning of sentences construed with implied verbs and phrases, which mimic natural speech patterns, are easily understood, and spice up prose . . . it's fun.


Its still not a proper sentence. The "brought" is not the verb. The implied very is "reinforces dam." As in, "After midnight, National Guard reinforces dam, using one-ton sandbags brought in..."

And no mama's_tasty_foods, you should try reading that headline out-loud. It sounds horrible.

cazman: Grammatical tense is a temporal linguistic quality expressing the time at, during, or over which a state or action denoted by a verb occurs.

Now that 6th grade grammar class is over, lets remember it's a Fark.com headline, it's not like this is gonna be on the front page of the Times tomorrow.

So, lighten up, ukexpat

///subtard

I'm MN guard helping with flood control, so i'm getting a kick out of these replies

MindStalker:
Its still not a proper sentence. The "brought" is not the verb. The implied very is "reinforces dam." As in, "After midnight, National Guard reinforces dam, using one-ton sandbags brought in..."

And no mama's_tasty_foods, you should try reading that headline out-loud. It sounds horrible.

The implied phrase in the sentence is actually more like "They did it after midnight . . ." Alternatively, you can treat the two sentences as one phrase, conceiving the period as a dash: "last night- after midnight, using . . ."

As for whether it's a "proper sentence," I'll leave it to others whether 12-grade grammatical requirements are the most important part of Fark headlines, or writing generally. Good writers often play fast and loose with the "rules" of grammar. In the hands of an intelligent and capable writer, such corner-cutting is refreshing. The headline may not be the best I've ever read but there's nothing really wrong with it; I don't know why people have jumped on it like this.

That's a lot of sand bags. A LOT in a very short time. I'd be shiatting myself if I lived in the path of that dam.

on a real note; we have guys all over the state moving lots of dirt and clay, not to mention 12-15 hour patrols to make sure that we don't have anything worse than what's going on in Lamoure happen anywhere else. It's quite hectic here in the offices.

I also had trouble reading this horribly worded headline

buzzvert ftw.

/Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra

IronTony: Is there anything worth saving in North Dakota?

Mount Rushmore?

IronTony: Is there anything worth saving in North Dakota?

Mount Rushmore?

Wrong State.

wffsoccer: IronTony: Is there anything worth saving in North Dakota?

Mount Rushmore?

Wrong State.

No way its in Medora.

IronTony: Is there anything worth saving in North Dakota?

Oh, I get it. That's funny because North Dakota doesn't have a huge population, and therefore must not contribute anything to the rest of the country, like, you know, food.

FilmBELOH20: IronTony: Is there anything worth saving in North Dakota?

Oh, I get it. That's funny because North Dakota doesn't have a huge population, and therefore must not contribute anything to the rest of the country, like, you know, food.

oh lighten up.

"After midnight, using one-ton sandbags brought in with helicopters."

"LaMoure, when the walls fell"

chaosweaver: I'm MN guard helping with flood control, so i'm getting a kick out of these replies

Well, watch your grammar when you're out there stopping those floods, Mister, or ukexpat will be all over your ass!

If only there were pictures: Link (new window)

Sudlow: If only there were pictures: Link (new window)

Seriously. The "Digital Video & Imagery Distribution System" has...no pictures?

¿Que, Señor Fawlty?

/wait, what?

Blackhawks and Chinooks dropping large sandbags has become a way of life here in the Red River Valley over the last month.

Sudlow, the picture in the link you provided is actually 30 miles away from LaMoure, at a dam near Clausen Springs earlier this week. But it is ND, so it all looks the same.

mama's_tasty_foods: I don't know why people have jumped on it like this.

Because this... is... FARK!

Mount Rushmore is in SOUTH Dakota Farkers, about 20 miles from Rapid City. A GREAT place to visit, you should load the kiddies up in the RV and head that way. Deadwood, South Dakota, where Wild Bill Hickok got shot, is a smaller version of Las Vegas, with casinos up and down the main street and a lot of street action.

The tourism department of the state government will be glad to send you a free travel guide and map ( damn-near a coffee table book ).



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as a NG member workin ops for this flood...kick, etc.

/media initially called them 'sand bombs'. he he...what a mess that'd make

Jgok: mama's_tasty_foods: I don't know why people have jumped on it like this.

Because this... is... FARK!

Better?
"N. Dak. Nat. Guard brangd in sum sanbagz t'th' lamor damm. Flew'm in wit them thar heliocoptors they done got over thar to the armery. Sleep tite yall n don't ferget yer floty thangs."

Hedley! It's Hedley

One Bad Apple: That sandbag was made by the lowest bidder...sleep tight

So was the dam...sleep tight.

psst....hey wffsoccer and planes, you might want to check Gray Matter Collider's profile and see his location.

/you got played
//golf clap for Gray Matter Collider

A hornet building a nest comes to mind.