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Title: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: Max Rockatansky on October 15, 2023, 11:11:05 PM
From The Drive:

https://www.facebook.com/100059737652658/posts/pfbid02BD9yNbWThks1VjksgJeXm74BdHPcDtNaMfTXqijdBYSWfxHNRgakCtZBDB1TMBNvl/?mibextid=cr9u03
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: LilianaUwU on October 15, 2023, 11:17:04 PM
Still a better name than any of the proposed ones.
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: ElishaGOtis on October 19, 2023, 05:01:20 PM
It appears that another "Harambe Memorial Bridge" has popped up in Florida--this time for the Cross Florida Greenway Bridge over I-75.  :spin:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/UtJ7sefrd9TcCLjw5
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: The Ghostbuster on October 19, 2023, 06:37:15 PM
Are the two Harambe Memorial Bridges named after the same person?
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: Rothman on October 19, 2023, 06:56:19 PM
Quote from: The Ghostbuster on October 19, 2023, 06:37:15 PM
Are the two Harambe Memorial Bridges named after the same person?
Heh.  Someone needs to Google "Harambe."
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: LilianaUwU on October 19, 2023, 07:01:31 PM
Quote from: The Ghostbuster on October 19, 2023, 06:37:15 PM
Are the two Harambe Memorial Bridges named after the same person?

Yes, George Harambe (1896 - 1977) was a former politician who served in SC and FL.
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: Bruce on October 19, 2023, 07:06:21 PM
That archway looks really tacky.
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: The Ghostbuster on October 19, 2023, 07:10:51 PM
I took Rothman's suggestion, and the search engine came up with a gorilla that lived in both a Brownsville and then a Cincinatti Zoo from 1999-2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harambe. I doubt that a bridge in either South Carolina or Florida would be named after a gorilla who never resided in a zoo in either state, but stranger things have happened.
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: LilianaUwU on October 19, 2023, 07:12:41 PM
Quote from: The Ghostbuster on October 19, 2023, 07:10:51 PM
I took Rothman's suggestion, and the search engine came up with a gorilla that lived in both a Brownsville and then a Cincinatti Zoo from 1999-2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harambe. I doubt that a bridge in either South Carolina or Florida would be named after a gorilla who never resided in a zoo in either state, but stranger things have happened.
FWIW, I strongly believe the day he was killed is the day everything truly went to shit on Earth.
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: freebrickproductions on October 19, 2023, 07:58:01 PM
Quote from: LilianaUwU on October 19, 2023, 07:12:41 PM
Quote from: The Ghostbuster on October 19, 2023, 07:10:51 PM
I took Rothman's suggestion, and the search engine came up with a gorilla that lived in both a Brownsville and then a Cincinatti Zoo from 1999-2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harambe. I doubt that a bridge in either South Carolina or Florida would be named after a gorilla who never resided in a zoo in either state, but stranger things have happened.
FWIW, I strongly believe the day he was killed is the day everything truly went to shit on Earth.
(https://i.redd.it/otvbimox9es61.jpg)
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: Rothman on October 19, 2023, 08:16:29 PM


Quote from: The Ghostbuster on October 19, 2023, 07:10:51 PM
I took Rothman's suggestion, and the search engine came up with a gorilla that lived in both a Brownsville and then a Cincinatti Zoo from 1999-2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harambe. I doubt that a bridge in either South Carolina or Florida would be named after a gorilla who never resided in a zoo in either state, but stranger things have happened.

I don't find it hard to believe that someone would have dug themselves under so large a rock to have missed out on the Harambe mourning Internet craze.
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: Max Rockatansky on October 19, 2023, 08:20:44 PM
Quote from: LilianaUwU on October 19, 2023, 07:01:31 PM
Quote from: The Ghostbuster on October 19, 2023, 06:37:15 PM
Are the two Harambe Memorial Bridges named after the same person?

Yes, George Harambe (1896 - 1977) was a former politician who served in SC and FL.

"Dicks out for Harambe" is still one of the all time great campaign slogans.
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: froggie on October 20, 2023, 09:21:57 PM
Quote from: Rothman on October 19, 2023, 06:56:19 PM
Quote from: The Ghostbuster on October 19, 2023, 06:37:15 PM
Are the two Harambe Memorial Bridges named after the same person?
Heh.  Someone needs to Google "Harambe."

Doesn't look like they read the OP's article, either.  Spells out right there in the first paragraph that it was named after the gorilla.
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: NE2 on October 21, 2023, 12:56:05 AM
Quote from: ElishaGOtis on October 19, 2023, 05:01:20 PM
It appears that another "Harambe Memorial Bridge" has popped up in Florida--this time for the Cross Florida Greenway Bridge over I-75.  :spin:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/UtJ7sefrd9TcCLjw5
Looks like the same one, moved elsewhere:
https://goo.gl/maps/xbD47Un2xEVz22eV7
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: PColumbus73 on October 25, 2023, 03:56:15 PM
Quote from: Bruce on October 19, 2023, 07:06:21 PM
That archway looks really tacky.

I agree, it looks like a Dollar General Arc de Triomphe
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: civilengineeringnerd on January 25, 2024, 01:11:30 AM
while it would be very meme worthy, i do hope nobody actually flashes their d out on the bridge in front of motorists.
there was some people who actually went to the area 51 site to "free the aliens", those same people pretty much took the meme seriously., but were arrested.
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: bwana39 on January 26, 2024, 07:10:44 PM
Quote from: LilianaUwU on October 19, 2023, 07:12:41 PM

FWIW, I strongly believe the day he was killed is the day everything truly went to shit on Earth.

I would want to agree, but it was either the day Adam and Eve got the knowledge or the day the Cain slew Abel.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Harambe&rlz=1C1UEAD_enUS932US932&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Title: Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
Post by: civilengineeringnerd on January 28, 2024, 11:32:40 PM
Quote from: bwana39 on January 26, 2024, 07:10:44 PM
Quote from: LilianaUwU on October 19, 2023, 07:12:41 PM

FWIW, I strongly believe the day he was killed is the day everything truly went to shit on Earth.

I would want to agree, but it was either the day Adam and Eve got the knowledge or the day the Cain slew Abel.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Harambe&rlz=1C1UEAD_enUS932US932&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
im more inclined to think it was just harambes death, i imagine his last thoughts were essentially cursing humanity.