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Mike the Elder wrote:
> ...
>> Kyle wrote:
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>>> ...and now over to Doug for the weather. It's a brisk 32 degrees here in hell...
>> ...
>>
> No, THIS improbable:
>
> .... and experts fear that a continuing drop in temperature could cause ice to
> form on the pigs' wings...
>
And THIS is REALLY improbable:
A string of freakin' tornados blasting up I-44 from Oklahoma across
Missouri (plus a bit of Arkansas) and into Illinois, all night long, in
freakin' January...
...and today I've got the freakin' river in my front yard...just hoping
it'll clear away some of the freakin' tree limbs etc. from all the ice
storms...
Must be the temperature fluctuations in Hell jacking around with the
weather up here.
Golly, I miss plain old snow...
--Sherry Shaw
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Sherry Shaw wrote:
> And THIS is REALLY improbable:
No, THIS IS IMPROBABLE:
Yesterday, a 9 year old girl was walking to school, and the house she
was walking past *exploded* and she was crushed by falling brickwork.
And I'm not even making this up.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7178259.stm
> A string of freakin' tornados blasting up I-44 from Oklahoma across
> Missouri (plus a bit of Arkansas) and into Illinois, all night long, in
> freakin' January...
>
> ...and today I've got the freakin' river in my front yard...just hoping
> it'll clear away some of the freakin' tree limbs etc. from all the ice
> storms...
So... that's where you live? ;-)
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On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:47:21 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>Yesterday, a 9 year old girl was walking to school, and the house she
>was walking past *exploded* and she was crushed by falling brickwork.
>
>And I'm not even making this up.
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7178259.stm
Wow, what a random way to go. That's quite sad.
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Kyle wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:47:21 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday, a 9 year old girl was walking to school, and the house she
>> was walking past *exploded* and she was crushed by falling brickwork.
>>
>> And I'm not even making this up.
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7178259.stm
>
>
> Wow, what a random way to go. That's quite sad.
Yah. 20 seconds early or late and she'd still be alive and unharmed.
How cruel life is...
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> Yah. 20 seconds early or late and she'd still be alive and unharmed.
But for every person that gets something like this, there are thousands who
escaped by 5, 10, 20 seconds from death. Just due to the huge numbers of
people on this planet, there will always be stories like this, people who
were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Don't forget, there's (roughly) a 1 in 14 million chance of winning a
lottery, yet still hundreds of people worldwide have this happen to them
every week...
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scott wrote:
>> Yah. 20 seconds early or late and she'd still be alive and unharmed.
>
> But for every person that gets something like this, there are thousands
> who escaped by 5, 10, 20 seconds from death. Just due to the huge
> numbers of people on this planet, there will always be stories like
> this, people who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
True...
> Don't forget, there's (roughly) a 1 in 14 million chance of winning a
> lottery, yet still hundreds of people worldwide have this happen to them
> every week...
Really? I thought it was actually quite unusual for anybody to win?
(This is why they have so many rollover weeks.)
[As an aside, I always thought a rollover week was a particularly *bad*
way to try to sell tickets. "Hey, everybody! Last week several million
people bought a ticket and NOBODY WON! You should hand over all your
money right away for your chance to not win this week's draw!"]
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I recall that there was an accident here in town several years ago that was also a
wrong-place-wrong-time type also. A lady jogger was killed when a large branch from
an old tree fell and crushed
her. She was found when a crew came to cut the branch up to haul it away. I always
wondered if she had been discovered earlier if she would have lived...
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Kyle <hob### [at] gatenet> wrote:
> I recall that there was an accident here in town several years ago that was also a
wrong-place-wrong-time type also.
A lady jogger was killed when a large branch from an old tree fell and crushed
> her. She was found when a crew came to cut the branch up to haul it away. I always
wondered if she had been discove
red earlier if she would have lived...
how has this off-topic thread come to be so offtopic? :P
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nemesis wrote:
> how has this off-topic thread come to be so offtopic? :P
Oh please! No more metathreads!!
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On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:15:48 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> scott wrote:
>>> Yah. 20 seconds early or late and she'd still be alive and unharmed.
>>
>> But for every person that gets something like this, there are thousands
>> who escaped by 5, 10, 20 seconds from death. Just due to the huge
>> numbers of people on this planet, there will always be stories like
>> this, people who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
>
> True...
>
>> Don't forget, there's (roughly) a 1 in 14 million chance of winning a
>> lottery, yet still hundreds of people worldwide have this happen to
>> them every week...
>
> Really? I thought it was actually quite unusual for anybody to win?
> (This is why they have so many rollover weeks.)
>
> [As an aside, I always thought a rollover week was a particularly *bad*
> way to try to sell tickets. "Hey, everybody! Last week several million
> people bought a ticket and NOBODY WON! You should hand over all your
> money right away for your chance to not win this week's draw!"]
Depends on how you define a "win". I used to play the Minnesota State
Lottery years and years ago, and we "won" once (a group of us would go in
together on a batch of tickets) - $10, only cost us $20 in tickets.
Jim
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