Subj : Re: Stupid People
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Mark Nobles
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 21:58:13

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf <Hooowl@hoowl.com> wrote:

> Mark Nobles <cmn-nospam@houston.rr.com> wrote in
> news:010920051353037609%cmn-nospam@houston.rr.com: 
> 
> > weirdwolf <Hooowl@hoowl.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Mark Nobles <cmn-nospam@houston.rr.com> wrote in
> >> news:310820052148136180% cmn-nospam@houston.rr.com:
> >> 
> >> > Graham Thurlwell <nospam@jades.org> wrote:
> >> > 
> >> >> On the 29 Aug 2005, Barrnabas Collins
> >> >> <BarnabasCollinsonSFNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> 
> >> >> <snip>
> >> >> 
> >> >> > the emegency shelter at the New Orleans super dome.
> >> >> 
> >> >> They seem awfully confident that it wasn't thrown up by dodgy
> >> >> builders trying to cut corners. Are they actually /in/ the
> >> >> stadium? 
> >> > 
> >> > They were. Now they are in the Astrodome.
> >> > 
> >> 
> >>  Isn't the astrodome one of those stadia that has a roof that is
> >>  rather 
> >> tempremental when it is closed?  
> > 
> > Nope. The Astrodome is the oldest domed stadium, and is a solid roof.
> > It doesn't open. The problem with it was growing real grass - it all
> > died because it didn't get enough light. That's when AstroTurf was
> > invented.
> > 
> 
> Didn't they paint the glass or something and then wondered why it died?

Well, yeah, they painted the glass because it was too glarey for
outfielders to look up to catch flyballs. Dangerous.

But nobody really wondered why the grass died. Except possibly for a
few folk who had just moved from Arizona and had never seen green grass
before.

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