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Piles of Money
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RE: Piles of Money
If I suddenly came into a life-changing amount of money the shock would probably kill me,or I would buy a Buggati Veyron,promptly drive it into a stobie pole and become a very large McDonald's pattie.

Statistically, the prognosis for poor/average people who suddenly acquire large amounts of money (even legally) is very poor.

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Have a look at the photos with the link. They will probably horrify you. If you live here,stobie poles are invisible.One simply does not notice them until one hits one. Even then it's arguable if you notice,what with being killed instantaneously and all. Here the family of the person killed when the stobie pole jumped out at him/her is sent a bill for any dents or scratches on the pole (really)


Quote:A Stobie pole is a power line pole made of two steel joists held apart by a slab of concrete in the middle. It was invented by Adelaide Electricity Supply Company design engineer James Cyril Stobie (1895–1953).[1] Stobie used materials easily at hand due to the shortage of suitably long, strong, straight and termite-resistant timber in South Australia. In July 1924 the patent application for the pole design was submitted in both English and French, and accepted in Nov 1925. Stobie described his invention as
"an improved pole adopted to be used for very many purposes, but particularly for carrying electric cables, telegraph wires... [it] consists of two flanged beams of iron or steel, preferably rolled steel joist of 'H' or of channel sections, placed one beside the other with their flanges inward and preferably at a very slight angle one with the other and held together by means of tie bolts, the space between them being filled with cement concrete."[2]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stobie_pole
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Messages In This Thread
Piles of Money - by Cinjin - March 22, 2012 at 10:13 am
RE: Piles of Money - by SophiaGrace - March 22, 2012 at 10:23 am
RE: Piles of Money - by frankiej - March 22, 2012 at 10:24 am
RE: Piles of Money - by Cinjin - March 22, 2012 at 10:47 am
RE: Piles of Money - by Sciwoman - March 22, 2012 at 11:34 am
RE: Piles of Money - by 5thHorseman - March 22, 2012 at 11:49 am
RE: Piles of Money - by thesummerqueen - March 22, 2012 at 12:22 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Doubting Thomas - March 22, 2012 at 12:24 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by LastPoet - March 22, 2012 at 1:48 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Jackalope - March 22, 2012 at 1:49 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Napoléon - March 22, 2012 at 1:52 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Tiberius - March 22, 2012 at 3:22 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Napoléon - March 22, 2012 at 3:25 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by NoMoreFaith - March 22, 2012 at 2:09 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Faith No More - March 22, 2012 at 2:10 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by 5thHorseman - March 22, 2012 at 3:25 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by thesummerqueen - March 22, 2012 at 3:28 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Napoléon - March 22, 2012 at 3:30 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by reverendjeremiah - March 22, 2012 at 4:38 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by padraic - March 23, 2012 at 2:27 am
RE: Piles of Money - by Tempus - March 23, 2012 at 3:46 am
RE: Piles of Money - by Minimalist - March 23, 2012 at 2:36 am
RE: Piles of Money - by Erinome - March 23, 2012 at 2:51 am
RE: Piles of Money - by Rhizomorph13 - March 26, 2012 at 2:18 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Napoléon - March 28, 2012 at 12:35 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Sciwoman - March 26, 2012 at 2:37 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by thesummerqueen - March 26, 2012 at 2:41 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by The Grand Nudger - March 26, 2012 at 3:35 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Diamond - March 27, 2012 at 2:07 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Rhizomorph13 - March 28, 2012 at 1:10 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Napoléon - March 28, 2012 at 5:07 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Nine - March 28, 2012 at 1:13 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Diamond - March 28, 2012 at 4:35 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Violet - March 28, 2012 at 1:35 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Rhizomorph13 - March 28, 2012 at 2:00 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Violet - March 28, 2012 at 2:03 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Rhizomorph13 - March 28, 2012 at 4:26 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by thesummerqueen - March 28, 2012 at 4:28 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Rayaan - March 28, 2012 at 4:52 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by thesummerqueen - March 28, 2012 at 4:54 pm
RE: Piles of Money - by Faith No More - March 28, 2012 at 7:21 pm

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