[Bobboau]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/31/AR2005083100414.html

[WMCoolmon]

What does "al" mean?

[Bobboau]

it depends, what's the context,

here I think it means "what the hell does this have to do with 600 people dieing"

[Kosh]

I'm surprised I can even read the article.


As for what happened, I guess having shoddy bridges can cause something like this to occur.

[Bobboau]

if you realy want to tempt fate try reading this one
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167906,00.html

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Bobboau
it depends, what's the context,

here I think it means "what the hell does this have to do with 600 people dieing"

It seems that a lot of Arab nouns have "al" in them. I just noticed with the bridge thing.

Yes, it's callused. But I guess I don't see much more that could be done except to build stronger bridges. I can't say that I feel too much for the people that died, specifically, because there's virtually a 0% chance that I knew any of them. I can say that I probably wish that it hadn't happened...because I would rather be able to say that I wished that it hadn't had to happen, for some good to have come out of it.

[Styxx]

Nice how one report says 300 dead, and the other (FOX) says more than 700.

[Ford Prefect]

I also noticed that in the FOX article, it was Jesus who knocked over the bridge.

[ChronoReverse]

@Kosh

It was a stampede, the bridge didn't collapse unless I really missed something.  And considering reports say that someone shouted that there was a suicide bomber, I'm not surprised they reacted in that way.


@bobboau

I don't get it, "tempt fate"?


@Styxx

Another report said around 600+.  I'm guessing that either the initial reports didn't get everyone or the initial reports overestimated.


@Ford

Huh?

[TrashMan]

latest reports - 841 dead, over 340 injred..

The bridge is fine b.t.w. - people died becouse they were tampeled or pushed over the bride railing by the massses...

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect
I also noticed that in the FOX article, it was Jesus who knocked over the bridge.

Eh?

[Rictor]

50 people die in London - it's all over the news for weeks or months.
750 people die in Baghdad - here's Joe with the weather.

[Ford Prefect]

It was a jab at FOX's tendency to lean in certain directions.

[Bobboau]

@ChronoReverse:
Kosh is in China right now, I posted a fox news link. can you figure it out?

[ChronoReverse]

A little context makes a world of difference

[Corsair]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon


It seems that a lot of Arab nouns have "al" in them. I just noticed with the bridge thing.

"Al" is "the" in Arabic. So it makes it a definite noun.