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In reply to the discussion: ****Official Bonner Bridge Closing Thread # 2 ****** [View all]petronius
(26,700 posts)44. Good idea - have the little ones start at one end and the big ones start at the other,
and see who reaches the middle first? That would be unimpeachable proof, to settle the ancient argument.
Chaucer was a putz, though - if you can't write bawdy tales just 'cause a couple of nuclear-powered laser-shooting cyborg-monkeys are around, are you really able to call yourself an artist? And don't get me started on Coleridge; he ditched his poem and scampered under the bed just because one single flying monkey dropped by to ask directions to Porlock...
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Like I said in Thread #1, I think the bridge should be replaced by zeppelin car-ferries
petronius
Dec 2013
#2
That's definitely worth exploring, although it raises a tricky optimization problem
petronius
Dec 2013
#13
Good idea - have the little ones start at one end and the big ones start at the other,
petronius
Dec 2013
#44
He got booted from his own thread based on a response to me. Someone (not me) ...
11 Bravo
Dec 2013
#27