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Austin, Beware of the Blob

March 11, 2010

Austin Water Utility demonstrates that slimy, greasy, fatty subject matter can really get the creative juices flowing!  “Stop the Grease Blob” sounds like a band playing at Austin’s SXSW, but is [...]

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San Antonio’s Mutant Ninja Sewer Turtle

March 2, 2010

From this angle, I can’t quite tell if this is Michaelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Donatello! A few mutant Ninja skills might have helped this fully grown, totally stuck turtle found trapped inside [...]

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Best of 2009: Water and Drought Jokes: How Dry is It?

December 29, 2009

We’re taking it easy the last week of 2009 with reposts of some of our 2009 faves! In case you missed it: In the thick of a blistering 2009 summer, [...]

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Water Towers, Merry and Bright: Part 2

December 22, 2009

To make your season bright…part 2! Again in 2009 we’ve rounded up some fantastic festive towers decorated for the holiday season! (See Part 1 here or the 2008 collection here and here.) [...]

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Water and Drought Jokes: How Dry is It?

July 27, 2009

Drought Turning Texas Dry as Toast: Yesterday I saw this headline on MSNBC (via WaterSISWeb) so that’s my cue to dig up my collection of “It’s so dry…” jokes. So dry the birds [...]

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We’re Laughing AT You, Not WITH You

June 23, 2009

From KSTP.com (really!) an incident that’s practically guaranteed to end up at juvie court: City Not Laughing at Virginia (Minnesota) Water Tower Prank What was likely intended as a prank, [...]

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Buzzards DID foretell water misery for Gladewater!

February 26, 2009

Earlier this week, did you laugh at our juvenile superstitions over buzzards roosting atop the Gladewater, Texas water tower? Did you scoff at our contention that this was an unsettling, [...]

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Town is abuzz about water tower buzzards

February 21, 2009

It appears as if a sequel to Hitchcock’s The Birds is shooting on location atop the Gladewater, Texas water supply! Of course, buzzards and vultures have been spooking mankind for eons; from Disney cartoons [...]

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