Whom!

That is all.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

What? The cop was un-emmed?

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Drowning island pins hopes on clean energy
I appreciate the effort that the tiny nation in this article is making for clean energy. But I would also like to know what kinds of offsets in cost there are between self-sufficiency and the cost of importing energy. Sounds like it has all around advantages even if you ignore the carbon footprint.

Anyway: I caught this in the article.
Sounds like they were doing pretty good on thier footprint to begin with.

So, in reality; 50,000 tons, or they only burned a fraction of thier import?

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Unless they calculated that 49950 tons was release when producing the stadium.

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‘To those who regard “crime fiction” as some sacred icon which must follow a rigid formula, I will always be the man who writes 18-syllable haiku.’Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

There's a school in this area. First time I drove by I was puzzled to read on its sign:

THOMAS JEFFERSON JR.
HIGH SCHOOL

Thomas Jefferson Jr? Just what is he famous for? I could see naming the place for Martin Luther King Jr. or Sammy Davis Jr. or Cal Ripken Jr., but Jefferson? Matter of fact, President Jefferson didn't even have any children! (Although history has since been rewritten in that regard!)

Turns out, it's a Junior High School, Whoever set up the sign just chose to break the phrase in the wrong place.

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Regardless of your feelings on the Sally Hemings front (you don't want that tirade), it is well established that Thomas Jefferson did have children, legitimate children. It's why he is believed not to have freed all his slaves upon his death; it would have left his daughters destitute.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Sorry. You caught me there. I meant that he didn't have any acknowledged sons. I certainly shouldn't have discounted his daughters, though they're not exactly suspects when looking for T.J. Junior.

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This is true.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Until I reached late elementary school, I thought Anti-Ques was a valid way to break up a word, based on a sign on some anti-Q's store.

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

There's a clothing store in Cocoa Beach, and their sign reads:

FLIRT / WEAR THE CLOTHES DO THE TALKING

I thought it was a misspelling, but it seems to be wordplay.

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A few dozen posts since our last "odds of getting hit by lightning story", and I am still wondering where the odds are comming from.

Deadly bolts: Lightning survivors stress safety

then this...
So, doesn't that equate to 570:25M or ~1:44,000

One last nitpick...
Ignoring the extra "d" on the fourth word, I would like to replace "Carries" with something else like "has". A volt is not something that you can pick up and hold, it's a unit of measure.

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I don't like "odds" in those kind of situations anyway. The "odds" still aren't ~1-to-44,000 or whatever, the ratio of stricken : population is. The odds very greatly depending on your situation. Like, my odds of getting hit by lightning are much better if I routinely fly kites in storms while wearing period costume emulating Ben Franklin, than my odds of getting struck by lightning if I'm a backwoods mountain hermit that never leaves my deep dark cave.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

Same here, because I think the odds should be based on how many people are within range of the strike. (that's going to eliminate a whole lot of strikes out in the middle of nowhere)

It just shows, that they are wrong in many ways.

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Remember also that lightning never strikes the same place twice. So, once the iron spire 'way up on your church steeple has taken a hit, the safest thing would be to climb up and sit there during bad storms.

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Good point. In fact, I'm currently directing a play that mentions a "sanctified" lightning rod on a church. God wouldn't strike a sanctified rod, would he?

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Maybe not, but Zeus might.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

or Thor!

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T. Anderson

There is of course, a difference between the chances that a lightning bolt will strike a person, and the chances that a person will be struck by lightning.

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

Asimov once said that lightning rods on churches is the sign that science is winning.

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Unless, upon talking to the members, it turns out it's not a lightning rod, but and antenna to help "reception".

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

Thor always gets there after Zeus.

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Car Collides With Mattress On Highway
Great, now I'm left wondering about how you get stuck on a mattress.

The funny thing is, I passed that mattress yesterday. I got to admit, it did look quite thick and plush.

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Depends on what crowd you're hanging around with.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

The building of a human being consisting of billions if not trillions of cells from one cell is a mercilessly complex one. Many factors can play a role on how the little egg becomes a baby too, many of which we still don't know. I do believe that in the case of homosexuality something zigged where it zags in the heterosexual population. It's rather like lefty or rightie is decided in the womb. I believe this zigzag happens during pregnancy, because so many homosexuals report their feelings of being 'different' at such early ages, as early as they can remember.

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Twins Sharing Body, Two Heads Die
At first, I kept reading the title it as two sentences making the second one very strange.
Has there ever been conjoined twins with one head?

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Sure. They call it schizophrenia.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

I could swear that I've seen conjoined twins with joined heads, but two bodies and one head doesn't seem like a realistic possiblity to me.

Here is a case from Utah back in 1978. The girls were joined at the top of the skulls and their brains shared some brain tissue.

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An evil person would do the things I think up.

The statement, “The fabled long odds of getting struck by lightning — 1 in 700,000 in a given year — lull many people into complacency and prompt them to take chances, said Jensenius,” probably refers to the whole US population during some previous year, divided by the number of lightening people-hits during that same previous year.

The ratio today would be about 305,000,000 million people / 570 hits = 535,087, or 1 in 535,087.

Yes; but as we discussed, that statistic is useless in that context.

To me it's like saying the chance of getting bitten by a shark by dividing by the entire population.

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