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minus-squarehate2bme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoIt’s a reference to someone “selling” the Brooklyn bridge to someone else for scrap long ago. I think so anyway.
minus-squareNABDad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoI thought it was about selling the bridge as a toll bridge.
minus-squarehate2bme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker You are correct
minus-squareGrandwolf319@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoWhich wouldn’t be a bad investment if they could prove your buying the right to toll the bridge.
minus-squareaffiliate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoi thought it was something something “that’s a bridge too far”, and so they need exactly one bridge
It’s a reference to someone “selling” the Brooklyn bridge to someone else for scrap long ago. I think so anyway.
I thought it was about selling the bridge as a toll bridge.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker
You are correct
Which wouldn’t be a bad investment if they could prove your buying the right to toll the bridge.
Woosh goes the joke
i thought it was something something “that’s a bridge too far”, and so they need exactly one bridge