Central Ohio TFR

How about fishing?
Wendy's headquarters is only half a mile up the hill from the river.
(Makes you wonder where they get that "fresh" fish, daily?)

Eeeuwww! Back when I was in Columbus, ('76-'80) if you fell in the
Olentangy, they took you right to the student health center, to give you
shots for typhoid, dysentery, and who knows what else!
Is it any cleaner, now?

Yes. The exception is when we get heavy rain. Dublin's sewers overflow and
spew into the river.

Nope! That was fixed eight years ago when they built the tunnel. Robot
drilling machines, 8 ft diameter, dug a 12 mile tunnel through mostly
solid rock, 80 ft underground to handle the sewage to the treatment
center.

"john smith" wrote

Yes the "Old and Grungy" is much cleaner now.
However, Wendy's is near the Scioto.
The Olentangy is three miles farther east.

I didn't know where the Wendy's HQ was. The Old and Grungy, for those that
don't know, goes right past OSU's campus.

A quick story. I was in the OSU marching band. Punishment for messing up
in a half-time show according to tradition, used to be getting thrown in the
river, the first practice after the game. The director had to dis-allow the
practice after the river became a health hazard, a few years before I got
there.

At the last practice before the Big Game, (OSU vs. Michigan) some Michigan
punk came up and threw a pie in our director's face. A couple of our band's
finest took off after the kid. They threw a full contact flying tackle (on
asphalt) that would have made the team's linebackers proud, and they all
went down, in a roll of gray and blue, with bloody elbows and knees ,
everywhere.

They drug the pie assassin back for judgment, in front of the director.
Still standing on his directing ladder wiping pie off his face, he looked
down at the unfortunate punk, trying to decide what to do with him.

You guessed it. With a full and direct move, he turned 180 degrees, and
pointed towards the river! Amid widespread cheers, he was pulled by the
shoulders across the street, up and over the hill to the river's edge, and
unceremoniously tossed in the river.

He was not helped back out, and I don't know if he went to get any shots,
but you know, I didn't really care. :-)
--
Jim in NC, alumni member of TBDBITL

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 03:09:32 GMT, "Michael Ware"
wrote:


"john smith" wrote in message
...

How about fishing?
Wendy's headquarters is only half a mile up the hill from the river.
(Makes you wonder where they get that "fresh" fish, daily?)

I'm not eating anything out of that stretch of river.


That stretch of the river used to be called "Tampon Bay" due to Dublin
sewers overflowing.

A new sewer line was built which took care of much of that problem.

While digging the new sewer line underground, the tunneling machine became
stuck when it hit an underground moraine. Lots of time and dollars later
the machine was rescued.

--

Dave in Columbus

Air Force One arrived at CMH at 11:00 local time, departed at 14:00 local
time.
All that hoo-ha for a three hour visit. I think half the cops in the state
were positioned along 270 and 670 on the east side.

"Morgans" wrote in message ...

A quick story. I was in the OSU marching band.
--
Jim in NC, alumni member of TBDBITL


Go Bucks!