Slog - Comments on Houseboat Fire on Lake Union

Comment by LT L

LT L — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:01:32 -0800

Damn. If only there was an ample supply of some sort of fire-extinguishing substance nearby...

Comment by Touring

Touring — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:32:41 -0800

"Damn. If only there was an ample supply of some sort of fire-extinguishing substance nearby..."
OK That is really funny. :)

Comment by whatever

whatever — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:26:12 -0800

What's really funny is the guy that got washed into the hole on Vancouver Island last week lives next to the boat that burned.

Comment by Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:45:14 -0800

The houseboat was about to be remodeled, I hear.

Comment by empedocles

empedocles — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:23:05 -0800

You combine earth, air and water in that way (enclosing a space with wood and floating in on water obviously), and when it burns you are surprised? Do you arrogant curs really believe you can keep the stag of nature at bay without limit? Fire will have it's place, and your wet and cold ways only lend its ultimate advent a greater ferocity. It is like a badger fed on carrots as you eat eggs: loosed he will tear the eggs from your probably withered ovaries. And that too would be an omen you deserve.

Comment by Dr_Awesome

Dr_Awesome — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:27:52 -0800

I didn't even know I had ovaries, much less know that stags are apparently the sworn enemies of houseboats.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:22:58 -0800

I hope they had insurance. Some of the older houseboat livers don't. I knew a guy who had kind of a ramshackle houseboat down there that burned one day, who didn't, and when it was finished he had nothing in this world at all.

Comment by Sam

Sam — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:15:58 -0800

"But happy Friday!" cried Fnarf.

Comment by LT L

LT L — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:42:24 -0800

empedocles @5 Dude, put the bong down! Seriously, it's for the best.

Comment by Big Sven

Big Sven — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:48:36 -0800

It would be an omen to have eggs torn out of your ovaries? Our friends at Merriam Webster say...

omen: an occurrence or phenomenon believed to portend a future event.

I think the whole egg ripping out thing would be an event in and of itself. But what do I know, I'm a guy.

empedocles, did you go to school w/ Chuck Mudede?

Comment by Ari

Ari — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:15:12 -0800

btw

Empedocles' philosophy is best known for being the origin of the cosmogenic theory of the four classical elements. Much of Empedocles' work still survives today, more so than in the case of any other Presocratic. Empedocles' death was well recorded by his contemporaries, and has been the subject of both legend and a number of literary treatments.

Now a fire with wind on a lake WITH AN EARTHQUAKE would be all 4.......

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Comment by K

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:56:55 -0800

Bizarre! I was visiting Washington this past week from Los Angeles, and was to stay on this actual houseboat Sunday night! We got a call on Saturday and heard about what had happened. Thankfully nobody was and nobody injured. So strange, Almost stopped by Thursday.
I have photos of the view from inside the place.