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https://www.boston.gov/news/100-years-ago-today-molasses-crashes-through-bostons-north-end

Sticky Wicket O molasses sticky wicket - A groaning preached of tips malaise. In Boston’s North, ever thicket - O molasses sticky wicket. Each towny hand, with no picket, And hellfire now, they could not raise. O molasses sticky wicket - A groaning preached of tips malaise. An engineer they should have used. Epic deluge - they could not swim. Tum’ ache of tank, shouldn’t have refused. An engineer they should have used. A blobbish beast, to wayward, fused. The tank was built upon a whim. An engineer they should have used Epic deluge - they could not swim.

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Date: 1/20/2025 4:08:00 PM
Wow, what a disaster - I imagined people dying in molasses... ugh...
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 1/20/2025 5:25:00 PM
That is what happened!
Date: 1/20/2025 11:08:00 AM
That is a great triolet, Kim! I take it there was a burst molasses tank? What a gooey mess! I love your "sticky wicket" :)
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 1/20/2025 5:27:00 PM
Happened January 15, 1919. The tank burst and killed people and animals.
Date: 1/20/2025 8:35:00 AM
I say, a sticky wicket indeed. Bloody odd as well
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 1/20/2025 10:11:00 AM
Truly! Thank you, Tom!
Date: 1/20/2025 5:42:00 AM
Excellent take on the great molasses flood in Boston. What a tragedy.
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 1/20/2025 7:21:00 AM
Thank you! Yes, what an unusual and tragic occurence.
Date: 1/20/2025 5:18:00 AM
- Epic deluge indeed... (100 years ago many people couldn't swim :) - Never read about this before... learned something new today, Kim, thanks :) - hugs
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 1/20/2025 5:20:00 AM
and in this one, they were brought down by molasses, both people and animals! I only heard about this last week.

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