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yellowcanine

(35,699 posts) Wed Dec 23, 2015, 02:39 PM Dec 2015

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The Washington Monument was used to store meat! Why didn't Ben Carson tell us?

True fact: During the Civil War the unfinished Washington Monument was used as a slaughterhouse.
http://www.gettysburgdaily.com/washington-monument-civil-war-drill-field-and-slaughterhouse/

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The Washington Monument was used to store meat! Why didn't Ben Carson tell us? (Original Post) yellowcanine Dec 2015 OP

Thank you for posting. SamKnause Dec 2015 #1

My favorite Ben Carson/pyramids line..... yellowcanine Dec 2015 #2

Heh. I've done that. jberryhill Dec 2015 #5

I always ryan_cats Dec 2015 #3

Is that different from a slaughterhouse? Human101948 Dec 2015 #4

Same thing. LanternWaste Dec 2015 #6

An obligatory response. longship Dec 2015 #7

SamKnause

(13,108 posts)

1. Thank you for posting.

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 02:57 PM

Dec 2015

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)

2. My favorite Ben Carson/pyramids line.....

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 03:02 PM

Dec 2015

Thinking that the Pyramids at Giza were used to store grain is like suggesting that bowling balls were invented as shot glasses.

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

5. Heh. I've done that.

Reply to yellowcanine (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 04:02 PM

Dec 2015

ryan_cats

(2,061 posts)

3. I always

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 03:05 PM

Dec 2015

I always heard that it was an abattoir.

Human101948

(3,457 posts)

4. Is that different from a slaughterhouse?

Reply to ryan_cats (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 03:23 PM

Dec 2015

I really enjoyed Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

Abattoir 5 ou la Croisade des enfants (titre original : Slaughterhouse Five or the Children's Crusade) est un roman de science-fiction de l'écrivain américain Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., paru en 1969.

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

6. Same thing.

Reply to ryan_cats (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 04:09 PM

Dec 2015

Same thing-- a facility where animals are killed for consumption as food.

longship

(40,416 posts)

7. An obligatory response.

Reply to ryan_cats (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 04:41 PM

Dec 2015

Once one uses the word abbatoir, one has to view this:

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