The last two images appear to be of the same bridge taken from opposite ends. What’s more disturbing is that there is a failed bridge, built the same way, adjacent to the intact one. (The site where I found these pictures now redirects to something, um, not very nice, so I won’t post the link.)
You guys run on ahead. I’m gonna stay here with the cooler and wait for
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This could be interesting: “Here, son. Hold my beer and watch this.”
I can’t think of a better way for father and son bonding than the time-honored tradition that combines beer and blowin’ up stuff. Here’s to all the dads (even those who might be but aren’t certain) on The Overnight Open Thread.
Enzo Stuarti was born Lorenzo Scapone in Rome, Italy. His parents fled Italy for the United States when Benito Mussolini came to power, but he was left behind with an aunt who placed him in the Monte Cassino Abbey, where he was raised by monks. He joined his family in Newark, New Jersey in 1934, where he finished school and worked with his father, a baker by trade.
In 1940, he joined the United States Merchant Marine and was assigned aboard the Liberty ship SS Charles Pratt, a Panamanian based tanker. On December 21, 1940, the ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat. He survived the attack and after his service in the Merchant Marine, he returned to Italy for voice training in order to pursue his ambition of singing professionally.
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Toward the end of 1954, he took the name “Enzo Stuarti” at the suggestion of Ed Sullivan, who thought he should have a more Italian-sounding name. [Wiki]
With a name like “Lorenzo Scapone,” the first thing that came to my mind is of an Irish balladeer. Eventually he hit the big time, all thanks to Ed Sullivan.
More fun facts to know and tell on The Overnight Open Thread.
Top to bottom: Mister Lucky, Mister Panic & Mister Bigass Honkin’ Cojones.
I don’t have the original links for these close shaves, but it’s time for another high-speed out-of-control low-risk episode of The Overnight Open Thread.
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