January 21, 2002

9:00 AM

Don't steal gas during a volcano. Bad things will happen.
posted by kirkaracha (15 comments total)

Wow, volcanos are now events, eh? Like, do not unbuckle your seat belt while car.
posted by fleener at 9:44 AM on January 21, 2002

awful event. funny thread.
posted by specialk420 at 9:51 AM on January 21, 2002

do not mistake while metafilter
posted by signal at 10:23 AM on January 21, 2002

Do not smirk while eye.
posted by kokogiak at 11:07 AM on January 21, 2002

Dang. Another item for my dumb-things-NEVER-to-do list.
posted by alumshubby at 11:16 AM on January 21, 2002

Can we blame the French for this one? It's their former colony, I think. And probably their gas station.
posted by ParisParamus at 11:25 AM on January 21, 2002

Clearly this is a Rogue Volcano with no respect for international law and decent standards of human treatment.
posted by dhartung at 11:31 AM on January 21, 2002

Paris: The Congo was former colony of Belgium.
posted by panopticon at 11:37 AM on January 21, 2002

Panopticon. Yes. Of course. still, I suspect that since WWII, France has had a much large influence on the place. In any case...
posted by ParisParamus at 11:45 AM on January 21, 2002

This thread is unfunny. Maybe it has made a funny headline, but it's nothing laughable.

Poor people.
posted by samelborp at 12:10 PM on January 21, 2002

No. Not funny. Tragic. It's just that most of Africa is such a disaster that we can do little more than do what's going on here.
posted by ParisParamus at 12:28 PM on January 21, 2002

Okay, for an actual relevant link (and to make up for my previous flippancy) - If you really want to learn about the heartache that is and has been Congo since the colonization by Belgium, then point your TiVos at ABC for the next five nights. Nightline is doing a five-part series on Congo called the Heart of Darkness. I heard about this a couple days before the volcano, and just shook my head later - when the volcano erupted... What could possibly happen next?
posted by kokogiak at 12:52 PM on January 21, 2002

Whoops - I just evented a noun as well - that should have been "a couple days before the volcano erupted..."

Guess I didn't heed "do not mistake while metafilter".
posted by kokogiak at 12:54 PM on January 21, 2002

According to Bill Bryson, Americans have been turning nouns into verbs for years (eg. to vaccuum, to dust, to ski, to sled). Surely "to volcano" will pass easily into the American language.

However, I say why not start a reverse trend and start turning verbs into nouns again?
posted by Neale at 3:15 PM on January 21, 2002

Great thinking!
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:45 PM on January 21, 2002