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(Cleveland) Cool Forty years ago the Cuyahoga River caught on fire. Now it's inflammable. Non-inflammable? Unimflammable?   (cleveland.com) divider line 91
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co-conspirator [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 09:28:29 AM  
So now there's no reason to make fun of Cleveland.

 
2wolves 2009-06-21 09:56:39 AM  
It either flams or it don't flam. Which is it subby?

 
FlashHarry [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 10:09:23 AM  
www.samruby.com

flam on!

 
Hobodeluxe [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 10:12:03 AM  
www.ohiohistorycentral.org

 
JerseyTim [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 11:33:42 AM  
This is where we walked, this is where we swam.
Take a picture here, take a souvenir.

 
co-conspirator [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 11:46:20 AM  
farm4.static.flickr.com

 
Cake Hunter [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 11:48:04 AM  
i40.tinypic.com

What a country!

 
Hau Ruck [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 12:26:17 PM  
co-conspirator :
farm4.static.flickr.com

Good stuff.

 
FunkOut [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 12:32:31 PM  
"This isn't heaven," said Grandfather. "This is Cleveland."

- The Stupids Die, by Harry Allard & James Marshall

 
ToddMU03 2009-06-21 12:32:40 PM  
I hear the river is so polluted that all the fish have AIDS.

 
GoSurfing [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 12:33:19 PM  
Randy Newman approves.

/burn on, big river, burn on...

 
Dr. Manhattan 2009-06-21 12:34:13 PM  
ToddMU03: I hear the river is so polluted that all the fish have AIDS.

I heard the river was so fat that when it sits around the house it really sits around the house.

 
peachpicker [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 12:34:50 PM  
Hau Ruck: Good stuff.

One of my favorites, I always make sure to pick some up when I'm back in Ohio. I love their Christmas ale, too.

 
peachy92 [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 12:35:09 PM  
Cake Hunter: i40.tinypic.com

What a country!


First thing I thought of.

 
Haywardian 2009-06-21 12:35:11 PM  
I prefer the Blackout Stout myself

 
ToddMU03 2009-06-21 12:35:34 PM  
Dr. Manhattan: ToddMU03: I hear the river is so polluted that all the fish have AIDS.

I heard the river was so fat that when it sits around the house it really sits around the house.


Apparently someone hasn't seen the Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video 2nd Attempt.

 
dictyboy 2009-06-21 12:35:44 PM  
"The lord can make you tumble, the lord can make you turn, the lord can you make you overflow, but the lord can't make you burn."

/Randy Newman

 
hisphrenic 2009-06-21 12:36:40 PM  
Dr. Manhattan: ToddMU03: I hear the river is so polluted that all the fish have AIDS.

I heard the river was so fat that when it sits around the house it really sits around the house.


That river's so fat it has it's own ZIP code fire department.

 
santadog [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 12:40:51 PM  
Used to live in Cleveland. I really miss the beach, with it's dead rats, spent needles, used tampon casings, and washed up condoms....

They don't call it the "Mistake on the Lake" for nothing.

 
Anastacya [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-06-21 12:41:49 PM  
The river may no longer be in danger of spontaneously combusting, but it still has that lovely odor.

And let's not forget the swarms of Canadian Soldiers/Junebugs/annoying things that invade Northeast Ohio every May/June.

 
santadog [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 12:43:56 PM  
Just read TFA. It's about time they did something to help preserve our largest fresh water resource. With all the other lakes and rivers drying up, "they" probably realize those lakes are worth big bucks.

 
maddogdelta [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 12:48:44 PM  
Hau Ruck: Good stuff.

I would tend to agree, except I'm not a fan of pale ales. Eliot Ness Amber, on the other hand....(GLBC is very good...)

 
N. S. Radieaux 2009-06-21 12:51:31 PM  
Blame Shakespeare.

 
dustman81 [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 12:58:56 PM  
maddogdelta: Hau Ruck: Good stuff.

I would tend to agree, except I'm not a fan of pale ales. Eliot Ness Amber, on the other hand....(GLBC is very good...)


Go on their brewery tour sometime. They don't take you through a mock brewery, they take you through the real thing. An actual brewmaster gave me a tour of the brewery, starting from where they get the raw ingredients to the bottler.

 
stoppit 2009-06-21 01:01:03 PM  
Subby has raised another vagary of the English language that always baffled me. flammable = inflammable

 
Little.Alex 2009-06-21 01:02:11 PM  
Flammless.

Ex: "The river now runs flammlessly."



People forget how nasty the pollution was in the early '70s. And they forget that it was Nixon and the Republicans who started the EPA.

/or just too young to know.

 
nytmare 2009-06-21 01:04:56 PM  
Little.Alex: Flammless.

Ex: "The river now runs flammlessly."



People forget how nasty the pollution was in the early '70s. And they forget that it was Nixon and the Republicans who started the EPA.

/or just too young to know.


Thanks, Nixon!

 
Rodeodoc 2009-06-21 01:05:47 PM  
Something that is inflammable is capable of bursting into flames, thus becoming inflamed. Unflammable might mean non-flammable, but it's not a word.

 
oukewldave 2009-06-21 01:06:32 PM  
Our economy is based on Lebron James.
/Come see both of our buildings.

 
Abacot 2009-06-21 01:06:40 PM  
img2.pict.com

 
maddogdelta [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 01:14:28 PM  
dustman81: Go on their brewery tour sometime. They don't take you through a mock brewery, they take you through the real thing. An actual brewmaster gave me a tour of the brewery, starting from where they get the raw ingredients to the bottler.

The last time I was in Cleveland, I fully intended on going on the tour. But I stopped in the restaurant...and just sat there eating and drinking excellent beer...

Maybe next time!

 
TheOther [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 01:19:10 PM  
co-conspirator: So now there's no reason to make fun of Cleveland.

www.literaryillusions.com

?

 
Hatman013 2009-06-21 01:24:29 PM  
ToddMU03: I hear the river is so polluted that all the fish have AIDS.

Ha, beat me to it.

The waterfront also looks like a Scooby-Doo ghost town.

 
moothemagiccow 2009-06-21 01:29:02 PM  
fire retardant

 
moothemagiccow 2009-06-21 01:30:51 PM  
stoppit: Subby has raised another vagary of the English language that always baffled me. flammable = inflammable

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammable#Linguistics:_Flammable_vs._inflammabl e

 
bunner [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 01:37:48 PM  
JerseyTim: This is where we walked, this is where we swam.
Take a picture here, take a souvenir.


Cuyahoga, gone.

Best. REM. Record. Ever.

It has fish and ducks, now and isn't flammable.

 
dna_level_c [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 01:38:25 PM  
Yeah, Cleveland is kinda backwards.

 
vudukungfu 2009-06-21 01:40:28 PM  
Irregardless, only the white man could figure out a way to burn a river.
Of course, when the indemnifying clauses of your treaties are "as long as the grass grows, the waters flow, the sky is blue" you better spend am entire century and the better part of an industrial revolution insuring the clauses are null and void.
All in all, it's fairly shrewd of teh white man to figure this out.
SHreder still to get the black man to fight the yellow man to take the red man's land.
/seriously, who is so sloppy that they catch a river on fire?
//white guys.
///hold my beer and watch this.

 
Rodeodoc 2009-06-21 01:47:21 PM  
vudukungfu Irregardless, only the...

Irregardless? There is no such farking word, you... you... Clevelander!

/Grammar Nazis, represent

 
albuquerquehalsey 2009-06-21 01:59:23 PM  
vudukungfu: Irregardless

img10.imageshack.us

 
cretinbob [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 01:59:36 PM  
Came for the Stiff Little Fingers reference, leaving disgruntled (don't be bitten twice)



\\what's the difference between flammable\inflammable and combustable?

 
vudukungfu 2009-06-21 01:59:51 PM  
Rodeodoc: vudukungfu Irregardless, only the...

Irregardless? There is no such farking word, you... you... Clevelander!

/Grammar Nazis, represent


I just got off the phone with Ron Glass, who asked me sarcastically, if Clevelanded was a croummulent word.

 
downtownkid 2009-06-21 02:13:55 PM  
Hatman013: ToddMU03: I hear the river is so polluted that all the fish have AIDS.

Ha, beat me to it.

The waterfront also looks like a Scooby-Doo ghost town.


Yet still nicer than Buffalo, Youngstown Detroit, Newark, Camden, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Canton, Flint, Charleston (WVa.), Scranton, Springfield...

 
Paris1127 [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 02:14:37 PM  
santadog: Used to live in Cleveland. I really miss the beach, with it's dead rats, spent needles, used tampon casings, and washed up condoms....

They don't call it the "Mistake on the Lake" for nothing.


Yeah, but if Detroit was on a Great Lake (St. Clair doesn't count) it would be the "Mistake on the Lake" and Cleveland would be... 2nd.

 
Englebert Slaptyback 2009-06-21 02:29:25 PM  

Now it's inflammable. Non-inflammable? Unimflammable?


"Unimflammable"?

 
Englebert Slaptyback 2009-06-21 02:30:38 PM  

maddogdelta


Eliot Ness Amber, on the other hand...


I wanted to try that but couldn't get my hands on it for some reason.

 
Zerba 2009-06-21 02:55:42 PM  
Hau Ruck: co-conspirator :


Good stuff.


I love that beer, easily one of my favorites. I made sure it was on tap at my wedding a few months ago.

 
T.rex 2009-06-21 02:58:42 PM  
ToddMU03
I hear the river is so polluted that all the fish have AIDS.

Actually, most animals, from your pet dog, to rodents to monkeys to cats, all would test positive for hiv. Just for some reason, doctors (big pharma) theorize that hiv in a human is something to fear.

 
peachpicker [TotalFark] 2009-06-21 03:03:01 PM  
Englebert Slaptyback: maddogdelta

Eliot Ness Amber, on the other hand...


I wanted to try that but couldn't get my hands on it for some reason.


Round about Halloween they put out the Nosferatu, and it's outstanding.

 
Your Favorite Token Black Chick 2009-06-21 03:24:05 PM  
I live in Cleveland so I'm really getting a kick etc.

Btw, Burning River is a damned good beer, and I don't even like beer.

/was on the beach with my SO just yesterday
//Cleveland's not THAT bad
///just like Gary, IN

 
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