A basic understanding of Physics would have helped ...

[dogtag]

But apparently no one of this group had it.
A couple of dozen men standing in the same spot
on an old rickety bridge sounds like an accident
waiting to happen - which it did, not surprisingly.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-missing.html

[Vern Humphrey]

When I lived in Egypt, there was a forbidden book, The Back Garden of Allah, written by a Brit. I especially remember one passage:

"The Arabs have never produced a Samuel Plimsol, Pasha, and there is no word in Arabic for "overload." It is for this reason Egyptian newspapers keep permanently set in type a headline reading "Terrible Ferry Boat Disaster on the Nile."