#boston molasses flood

[burningchandelier]

No matter which one wins, everybody loses!

[beardedmrbean]

[legends-of-and-juliet]

Happy 105th anniversary of the Boston molasses flood @wearewatcher !!

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

She was as slow as molasses in January: inescapably fast, easily underestimated, leaving a trail of bodies in her wake

[funkyfreshfemme]

Ok this is actually the only good TikTok

[foxpost-generator]

🦊

[foralltheshaniacs]

happy 105th anniversary of the boston molasses flood to all who celebrate

[owa-tagoo-siam]

[lesbian-shakespeare]

Happy Boston Molassacre to all who celebrate!

[sweetmeatdale]

Because Tumblr likes the Molasses flood

[popculturelib]

Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events (2001) ed. by Ray Browne and Arthur G. Neale

Here is a book on popular culture edited by our founder, Ray Browne. From the summary:

The essays in this collection present communities beset by unexpected social and physical events. Some outline immediate responses that soon pass and some that will not go away. Who, for example, while the Western World was awash in the tears flowing from the death of Princess Di, would have predicted that she would soon be forgotten in a desert of embarrassment over the immediate furor? Who in his lifetime would have foreseen that Elvis would be a phenomenon apparently as lasting as the faces on Mount Rushmore? Cultural history will not allow us to forget the H. G. Wells account or the Martian attack, nor can we ever forget the continued terror of the Chernobyl explosion.

Of relevance to Tumblr is the chapter by Susan Doll and David Morrow titled: "The Great Boston Molasses Flood: Newspaper Coverage and the Shaping of an Extraordinary Event."

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

[beardedmrbean]

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[paranoidginger]

3am again, thinking about the 1919 Boston Molasses Flood.

That is all.

[kotamagic]

As an English major, it bugs me when expressions aren't accurate, but are still widespread nonetheless.

Like, folks will describe something tedious to be "Slow as molasses" as if this didn't fucking happen:

The Boston Molasses Disaster in 1919. The reason that building regulations are a thing.