#1 2014-12-30 20:29:04
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#2 2014-12-31 00:00:31
What a shame. i heard the dealer is well known for being a very nice guy. You know... a real 'salt of the earth'.
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#3 2014-12-31 03:11:35
I heard he was a real salty fella who happened to have well preserved cars salted away.
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#4 2014-12-31 05:37:11
Sea salt extraction was the primary industry here in colonial times and the reason the towering forests from here to Provincetown disappeared forever, clear cut to fuel evaporation pots lining our beaches and provide for the fishing fleet's salt cod export trade. They learned way too late simple evaporation, with windmill pumping and gravity, was more productive and efficient.
Anyway, back to the salt mines.
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#5 2014-12-31 09:07:45
choad wrote:
Anyway, back to the salt mines.
I have an old high school friend in Cleveland who has both worked in the salt mines (under Lake Erie) and is now a train engineer. I told him that, if he had spent some time either being a fireman or a cowboy, he would have hit the "little boys dream jobs" trifecta.
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#6 2014-12-31 10:23:59
What little boy wanted to work in a salt mine? Yikes... your childhood must have been rough.
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#7 2014-12-31 13:58:14
Cowboy - all the way...
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#8 2014-12-31 15:00:26
whosasailorthen wrote:
What little boy wanted to work in a salt mine? Yikes... your childhood must have been rough.
Just something you hear, working in a salt mine. I guess it was more cliché jobs, than dream jobs.
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#9 2014-12-31 20:49:10
Baywolfe wrote:
whosasailorthen wrote:
What little boy wanted to work in a salt mine? Yikes... your childhood must have been rough.
Just something you hear, working in a salt mine. I guess it was more cliché jobs, than dream jobs.
Even for cliché it's more than a mile out there, the salt mines were a death sentence nobody got out alive. Shit was so bad they don't even make movies about it, it's kind of like an Auschwitz movie - protagonist was sentenced to hard labor at salt mine/work camp, end of story. Dead men tell no tales.
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#10 2014-12-31 21:00:04
Emmeran wrote:
Baywolfe wrote:
whosasailorthen wrote:
What little boy wanted to work in a salt mine? Yikes... your childhood must have been rough.
Just something you hear, working in a salt mine. I guess it was more cliché jobs, than dream jobs.
Even for cliché it's more than a mile out there, the salt mines were a death sentence nobody got out alive. Shit was so bad they don't even make movies about it, it's kind of like an Auschwitz movie - protagonist was sentenced to hard labor at salt mine/work camp, end of story. Dead men tell no tales.
Shit I had a friend that shoveled arsenic all day. The salt mines were safe beyond measure compared to his job.
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#11 2014-12-31 21:35:57
"And you tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you."
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#14 2015-01-01 17:21:59
Neither one of those count. We were discussing jobs that only kill the workers.
If you want to up the ante, let's discuss Bhopal for a moment.
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#15 2015-01-01 19:13:26
Baywolfe wrote:
Neither one of those count. We were discussing jobs that only kill the workers.
If you want to up the ante, let's discuss Bhopal for a moment.
Fuck off, we're talking about food here. Then again, pesticide is one of the major food groups these days.....
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