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Who Writes These Anyway?

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

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Oh, *those* kind of Dykes. I thought you were going to offer up something about Polish Bull Dykes, knowing how you manage to find such material from time to time. A Bull Dyke, Polish style, as soft as butter and as soaked as sponges, now that would have been something. But I can only imagine it, without your usual picture support.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

See what I mean? I post a news article, and next thing you know, all you pervs start with the innuendos, and I get the blame... sheeesch.. Dykes Breached in Poland

Monday, July 30, 2001 By Reuters

WARSAW, — More dykes breached on Poland's Vistula river on Monday as a flood surge rolled downstream, but no new casualties were reported after flooding in the south killed up to 10 people last week. Although the weather had turned fine, flood defences --soaked by the highest river levels in four years — collapsed in some places on the Vistula, inundating settlements earlier evacuated by emergency services.

"The dykes are as soft as butter and as soaked as sponges," Lech Sapula, head of the anti-flood operation in the southern state of Swietokrzyskie region, told PAP news agency.

On Sunday, a 50-metre (yard) breach on the Vistula near Sandomierz led to one village and some 4,000 hectares (10,000 acres) of land being swamped.

Sapula said over 4,000 emergency workers and civilians had managed overnight to shore up dykes protecting the historic town of Sandomierz itself.

Downstream, in Lubelskie region, emergency workers and locals were trying to patch up a 10-metre breach in a dyke near Laziska which flooded farmland.

The Vistula, which runs 1,047 km (650 miles) north through Poland to the Baltic sea, was due to crest in Warsaw early on Tuesday but not expected to pose a serious flood threat to the capital.

A big clean-up was under way in areas hit by the flooding earlier last week, including Lower and Upper Silesia, Malopolska and Podkarpacie provinces.

But the present flooding is not expected to come near the disastrous deluge of 1997 which killed 55 people in Poland and caused 12 billion zlotys (nearly $3 billion) worth of damage.

Poles nationwide have expressed solidarity with the flood victims by providing food, clothes, bottled water and cash donations now being collected by churches, charitable groups and broadcasting stations.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

If ya can't lick 'em... join 'em.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Firemouse,

Was your comment inspired by Carl's posting, or my interpretation? I still can't get that "as soft as butter and as soaked as sponges" thought out of my mind. What an original idea. Sigh.....

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Well, Gordon, I can see your point, rather struck by that choice of words to describe the situation myself...

As far as Firemouse's comment, I wouldn't touch that one with a ten- foot toungue... err.... pole....

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2001

I can see the headlines "Mass Exodus of Lesbians to Poland Following Misleading Article..."

enough out of me :)

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2001