The World's Largest Computer in 1951

[honestrosewater]

Wait- molasses? That can't be right.

 

[honestrosewater]

The Boston Molasses Tragedy of 1919

I guess I wasn't far off with the dam failure.

 

[honestrosewater]

Oh, yeah, and:

Sulphured molasses is made from green (unripe) sugar cane and is treated with sulphur fumes during the sugar extraction process.
...
The non-sugar content includes many salts such as calcium, potassium, oxalate and chloride.
...
Molasses is a chelating agent. An object coated with iron rust placed for two weeks in a mixture of one part molasses to nine parts water will lose its rust due to the chelating action of the molasses
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molasses

I think that's the strangest one yet.

I actually happened to see Indian pudding made today at Durgin Park in Boston. Indian pudding is made with molasses.

 

[honestrosewater]

Many think he's fantastic, but he might prefer to be called fabulous.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A613045

I guess I wasn't far off with the dam failure.

Also:

The Terror of the Scene
I went to original newspaper articles to find out what it was like. Envision a disaster scene with smashed buildings, overturned vehicles, drowned and crushed victims, and terrified survivors running away covered in molasses. Like the modern-day disasters with which we are unfortunately familiar, there was chaos, terror, buildings in ruins, victims to be dug out, trapped survivors to be rescued, rescue workers among the victims, and anguished families rushing to relief centers to find their relatives. It was like any horrible disaster scene, with the addition that everything was covered in smelly sticky brown molasses.

http://edp.org/bin/molasses77103S.jpg

But get this!

Before the explosion, the tank's owner, U.S. Industrial Alcohol, responded to warnings about structural problems with the tank by painting it brown, making it harder to see the molasses leaking out of the tank. (Stephen Puleo, Dark Tide (Boston: Beacon Press, 2003): 70-71.)
Hours after the explosion, a company lawyer was on the scene falsely blaming others for the disaster. (Ibid, 112-113.)

http://edp.org/molasses.htm

 

[hitssquad]

Many think he's fantastic, but he might prefer to be called fabulous.

Why, thank you. So are you.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Many think he's fantastic, but he might prefer to be called fabulous.

Elton John?

 

[wolram]

Many think he's fantastic, but he might prefer to be called fabulous.

seve ballesteros?

 

[honestrosewater]

Nope. This guy was in Mallrats.

 

[somsom]

Rat cave=dogcave

 

[hitssquad]

Stan Lee.

.

 

[honestrosewater]

Stan Lee.

.

Very nice. I've read that he wanted to call the Fantastic Four the Fabulous Four, but I'm not sure if it's true.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

So hitssquad, you are up to post a question.

 

[hitssquad]

OK. I need a little while to think.

 

[hitssquad]

Beggar the least.

 

[honestrosewater]

Beggar the least.

Is that the clue?

 

[hitssquad]

Yes. Its name is alliterate.

 

[hitssquad]

Related image:

 

[hitssquad]

Another related image:

 

[hitssquad]

And another one:

 

[hitssquad]

And another 'nother one:

 

[hitssquad]

 

[hitssquad]

 

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[hitssquad]

 

[hitssquad]

 

[zoobyshoe]

Yes. Its name is alliterate.

Two or more words beginning with the letter "M".


What is puzzling me the most is the initial clue: "Beggar the least." I have no idea what to make of it.

 

[hitssquad]

Two or more

Two. Eminem's name is Marshall Mathers, not Marshall Mathers Muthers or Marshall Mathers Muthers Mithers (in which cases his name more appropriately might have been Emineminem or Eminemineminem, respectively).

words beginning with the letter "M".

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Are those paintings of the winter of 1708 and 1709?

 

[hitssquad]

Are those paintings of the winter of 1708 and 1709?

No, they are not. Those four paintings are all by the same painter, and he died before 1708.