X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,f4f340fa7e1e06c6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,306076c04902ae41,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public From: pixel8ed@netcom.com (Diane Wenner) Subject: Re: shocking... Date: 1996/09/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 179522058 sender: bertino@netcom18.netcom.com references: <50al89$cfa@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com> <322C2639.41C67EA6@spectrospin.ch> <50sffo$1vk@orm.southern.co.nz> organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,rec.arts.ascii Colin Douthwaite (cfbd@southern.co.nz) wrote: : Max Erick Busse-Grawitz (bus@spectrospin.ch) wrote: : >Bob Pebly wrote: : >> : >> I went out flying at the beach this evening after some thunderstorms : >> rumbled through the area. : [...snip...] : > Just one remark (but I think you already know it): It's exactly : > those singularities that attract flashes, so don't try these : > experiments BELOW a thunderstorm... : I remember reading sometime somewhere long ago that lightning : has been known to strike from a cloudless and clear blue sky ! : ____ : _( ) __ : (___(__) / \ : /_ /_ \ / : /_ / /\/ : // / % @@@@ : / / % @@@@~@ : / @@@~@@@@ : !! / @@@@@@@ : O_ _/ @@_@ : /X_, / || : < 6 _||_ : """"""""""""""""""""""""""""" : Kite Trouble - DAVID S. ISSEL Hi, Yes, it does happen! That where the expressions "It struck me right out of a blue sky", "It hit me right out of the blue", and similar expression come from. Diane ________________________________________________________ | .,,,. | | Diane Wenner Silicon Valley ((~~~?) | | California USA ))(@ @()) ! | (() ^ ((( | |________________________________________...._\~/_...._|