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"rathole" Definitions
  1. a rat's burrow
  2. a hole gnawed by a rat
  3. a narrow opening, tunnel, or passageway
  4. a cramped space (as for storage or living quarters)
  5. a seemingly bottomless or unfillable hole

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They are the ones going down that rathole, all by themselves.
How should Republicans respond to the Democrats' march down the reparations rathole?
As a BaT commenter, "I try to keep conversations from going down a rathole," he added.
Contrary to the former president, there is an alternative to universal cash handouts and pouring more money down the federal training rathole.
I can disappear down a rathole of books on, say, the history of the Congo or special operations in Southeast Asia for years.
That era is long gone, replaced by "smart power" approaches, but the mistaken belief that the government throws aid dollars down a rathole persists.
"This is MTA rathole!" he exclaimed, referring to the billions of dollars more the MTA tends to spend on mega-projects than other major transit authorities.
Phoenix's Arthur Fleck lives in an impeccably designed Gotham City, which evokes the anarchic grime of early '80s New York City, in a rathole apartment with his housebound mother (Frances Conroy).
But the most harrowing experience of the day happened upstairs, in a simulation of a rathole apartment (complete with a simulated broken TV) where we answered a report of a man loudly fighting with a pregnant woman.
Dargon, Kieran. Geoff Tate interview. The RatHole - Fireworks Magazine. Retrieved April 24, 2006.
Postwar anti-Communism, pullback to American isolationism, and general conservative backlash led U.S. Republican Party politicians like U.S. Representatives Howard Buffett of Nebraska and Fred Busby of Illinois to oppose the Marshall Plan, which Buffett called "Operation Rathole".
Mark Allen is an American businessman and Republican politician from Oklahoma. He is the current state senator for District 4 in the Oklahoma Senate. According to his campaign website, Allen is the owner of Allen Rathole, Inc. a family-owned business specializing in oil field service.ElectMarkAllen.
Narrow Passage Road then continues on to the town of Eagle Rock, where the highway is known as Second Street and passes through a water gap between Rathole Mountain and Crawford Mountain. The state highway follows the river north a short distance to its northern terminus at US 220 (Botetourt Road).
In 1964, county commissioners recommended building a new county jail, which was approved in 1968. In 1970, construction of the new county jail was completed, with the Georgia governor at the time Lester Maddox calling the old structure "a rotten, filthy rathole." On March 3 the building was sold at an auction. The Liberty County Historical Society purchased the old structure for $4,500.
Johnson's friend Clifford was concerned about what the American public would think of the escalation: "How do we avoid creating the feeling that we are pounding troops down a rathole?"Clifford, p. 485. According to the Pentagon Papers, "A fork in the road had been reached and the alternatives stood out in stark reality." To meet Wheeler's request would mean a total U.S. military commitment to South Vietnam.
Joyce Lemprière's story also takes place in Cornwall, in the picturesque village of Rathole. One morning, she was painting a picture of the Polharwith Arms when two cars drew up within a couple of minutes of each other. The first contained a couple and the second a scarlet-dressed woman. The man in the couple, "Denis", recognised the lone woman as "Carol", an old friend, and introduced her to his somewhat plain wife, "Margery".
The first episode of Linux Outlaws was released on 5 September 2007. At the time both Dan and Fab were also hosting another Podcast Rathole radio.Rathole Radio - the original podcast As Stefano Forenza says on his website "you know you’re someone when you get cited twice in a single episode of LinuxOutlaws". Dan revived the name Rat Hole RadioRat Hole Radio - homepage of the new podcast as a music podcast in 2009.
A call for tenders was put out in the following year, 1927, with seven parties bidding for the contract. Jamies Construction Co. Ltd. received the contract from city engineer A. W. Haddow to construct the tunnel. The 109 Street subway was officially opened by then Mayor Ambrose Bury on October 19, 1928. An Edmonton alderman later coined the name “rathole” for the tunnel. In 1957, a transportation study recommended the construction of a parallel subway to improve the traffic flow.
The Rathole, officially the 109 Street subway, was a two-lane tunnel constructed in 1927 on 109 Street in the northwest corner of Downtown, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It traversed north-south under the former Canadian National (CN) railyards between 104 Avenue and 105 Avenue, . It was 168 metres in length, 3.3 metres in height, and constructed to accommodate automobile, bicycle and pedestrian traffic. The City of Edmonton proposed the construction of a tunnel/underpass in 1926 to burrow under a span of 22 railway tracks in the old CN railyards.
Macbreak Weekly 125 saw the introduction of two new units of price; the "Scott" is equal to 11 "Alexes", and the "Great Scott" is equal to 10 "Scotts." The show is often very casual and relaxed, and the hosts get off topic quite a bit which seems to contribute to the overall tone of the show. A recent feature on the show includes a special jingle first introduced by Merlin Mann and then supplied as a full blown song titled "Rathole!" which is played when the conversation veers very far off from the original topic.
Joyce confirms her point and finishes the story: a year later, at an east coast resort, she saw the same set up again with Denis, Carol and another woman, supposedly Denis's new wife. Although she didn't know exactly what was happening, Joyce went to the police station and reported suspicious activity. A Scotland Yard inspector was already there investigating Denis who, under several names, had married women, insured their lives for large sums, and then killed them in a conspiracy with Carol – his real wife. The woman Joyce saw in Rathole at the time that the bloodstains were on the pavement wasn't Margery but Carol in disguise.
Before she realised what she had done, she seemed to have painted in bloodstains on the pavement in front of the pub, and was astonished to find that she had captured reality – there did seem to be bloodstains on the pavement that were not there a short time before. Before she could take any action, Denis emerged from the pub and asked Joyce and the local man if they had seen Carol return. The three had met at the cave, as agreed, and Carol had supposedly walked back to Rathole but not arrived, although her car was still there. Denis and Margery drove off and Joyce inspected the pavement – only to find the bloodstains gone.
By 1910, the line as a whole was being duplicated (made into double track) and the "rathole" tunnel was replaced on a different deviation with a gentler alignment with 1 in 60 (1.67%) grades and the new Glenbrook Tunnel at Bluffs point on the Glenbrook Creek escarpment. From then on the lower section of the track, including the historic Knapsack Gully Viaduct, was converted into a road, the Great Western Highway, the main road up the Lapstone hill until the M4 motorway replaced it in 1993. The older tunnel was converted for mushroom growing but was also used by the RAAF for storage during World War II. During 1943 to 1946 the Glenbrook tunnel stored chemical weapons, mainly of bulk drums of mustard. Today the Zig Zag, Knapsack Viaduct, The Old Glenbook Tunnel, and Lucasville station can all be accessed by walking tracks.

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