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  1. As the approached the bridge the eight women began betting on how many accidents they would cause, and how many cars might actually fall into the water.

  2. Dave realized that passing the final navigation test was going to be more difficult than he’d thought.

  3. Norm was glad he hadn’t lied to his wife when he said they were going sailing in-decent-sea.

  4. That appears to be the ship channel approaching the Sunshine Skyway bridge. The ladies obviously heard that Jose Gaspar was attacking Tampa again and were attempting to stall the attack until the city had time to prepare its defenses..

    1. Good thing it wasn’t the Verazzano Narrows bridge, or there’s be an outbreak of Mass Goosebumps.

    2. So I’m not the only one that looked at the ladies, then tried to identify the bridge. The proportions of the main span to the causeway are similar to the Mackinac Bridge, but I can’t see a suspension cable, and the thick concrete blocks needed to hold the ends of the suspension cables aren’t there.

      So it’s a cable-stayed bridge, with a “harp” of thin cables running diagonally from the towers to the roadway instead of a thick suspension cable stretched over the top of the towers. (For a great illustration of the difference between suspension and cable-stayed bridges, find a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge that’s detailed enough to show all the cables. The designer of that used both patterns!) There are not many large modern cable-stayed bridges, but the Sunshine Skyway is one of them, and the proportions and the transitions to the causeways are a match. I think 0007 is right.

  5. bob was annoyed that his guests luggage had been lost again by United Airlines. But Dick was happy!

  6. “What did I do today? Well, honey, I went out on the boat and went clam diving.”

  7. In this ‘candid’ shot, we see our eager contestants casually relax after another intense ‘practice-round’ in preparation for their attempt at ‘breaking’ the Simultaneously Flatulently record!

  8. LATE ENTRY:

    The Ukrainian Armed Forces released a photo of the unique method they used to distract Russian forces during a recent successful attack on the strategic Kerch Bridge, which connects Russia to Crimea.

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