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Bulletin ... bulletin ...
It is in your best interest to come in out of the rain ...
That is all.
Posted by: Cheryl | June 23, 2006 at 01:53 PM
people need to be warned about this?
Posted by: puppytoes | June 23, 2006 at 01:53 PM
If only this could happen to those idiots who are driving while gabbing....
Posted by: Suzy Q | June 23, 2006 at 01:54 PM
Geez ... a FIRST for me! And I wasn't even trying.
Thankyew! Thankyewverymuch!
Posted by: Cheryl | June 23, 2006 at 01:54 PM
Also people should not use their cell phones in movie theatres as it runs the risk of being struck by me.
Posted by: Addicted to 24 | June 23, 2006 at 01:55 PM
I don't know about the rest of you, but this just shocks me.
Posted by: Steve | June 23, 2006 at 01:58 PM
Hey, my boss is playing golf right now. Let me check the weather and see if I need to call him...several times.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 23, 2006 at 01:59 PM
"...if you would like to make a call..." get the HE!! out of the rain, moron!
Posted by: 24-aholic | June 23, 2006 at 01:59 PM
Congrats to Cheryl!
*snork* at Addicted.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 23, 2006 at 01:59 PM
But if a metal object, such as a phone, is in contact with the skin it disrupts the flashover and increases the odds of internal injuries and death.
now see, i thought you had to have it *in* your mouth for that to happen. my bad.
Posted by: puppytoes | June 23, 2006 at 02:00 PM
We have only three reported cases of people being killed world wide so we need to launch a massive and expensive public education campaign.
Posted by: fivver | June 23, 2006 at 02:00 PM
But I am still OK using it in the shower with my blow dryer, arent I?
Posted by: CoastRaven | June 23, 2006 at 02:02 PM
Coast - not sure, but TC volunteered to check it out for you.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 23, 2006 at 02:04 PM
CR. a bath tub would be even better.
Posted by: Musically Challenged | June 23, 2006 at 02:04 PM
"There seems to be some static on the line....hellooo?"
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 23, 2006 at 02:05 PM
And any of you ladies of the female type gender who happen to wear underwire rampart supports, at the first sign of thunder you should...
Posted by: fivver | June 23, 2006 at 02:05 PM
And yet my flatmate can't wait for the common use of technology by which he can get a tiny cell-phone-like chip implanted in his brain. And he loves going outside in thunderstorms. Hmm.
(I said it badly, but oh, well.)
Posted by: Jemmy | June 23, 2006 at 02:07 PM
We should what, fivver?
Posted by: Suzy Q | June 23, 2006 at 02:10 PM
nice try, fivver, but my Ipex doesn't use metal.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 23, 2006 at 02:10 PM
I think fivver is insinuating that we should de-bra-ify.
Posted by: Cheryl | June 23, 2006 at 02:14 PM
Rereading Cheryl's First makes me think of "Donald Duck and the Gorilla."
That is all. Breckenridge.
Posted by: Jemmy | June 23, 2006 at 02:17 PM
Sorry, but de-bra-ing would mean floppification.
I'll risk the electrificating.
*goes to get another mojito* Can I get anyone anything at the bar?
Posted by: Cheryl | June 23, 2006 at 02:17 PM
Boy, try to pass on a life saving safety tip.
Geezer joke:
If you're on a golf course and a storm brews up, take out your two iron and hold it up in the air. Even God can't hit a two iron.
Posted by: fivver | June 23, 2006 at 02:17 PM
Two words: natural selection.
Posted by: KDF | June 23, 2006 at 02:32 PM
I agree with fivver. Freeing the bazoomage in a rain storm while wearing a thin white t-shirt is the proven safest method.
Posted by: blurkernomore | June 23, 2006 at 02:37 PM
*snork* @ fivver, blurker and Cheryl
And Cheryl, yes please on that mojito!
Posted by: KDF | June 23, 2006 at 02:45 PM
So what they're saying is, it doesn't increase your chances of being struck (ala land line), but if you do get struck it'll be worse.
Posted by: Layzeeboy | June 23, 2006 at 02:46 PM
Well, call me a sadist but I thought this was almost as funny as the letters to Dave from the humorly challenged.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | June 23, 2006 at 02:47 PM
fivver and blurker are increasing their own risk of getting struck, but not by lightning.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-har, har, har | June 23, 2006 at 05:02 PM
The guy in this video is praying for a lightening strike.
Posted by: Jacki | June 23, 2006 at 05:18 PM
*mega snork*@Jacki - thanks, that's just what I needed to end the week on!
Posted by: fivver | June 23, 2006 at 05:29 PM
"Yakkkkkk! I think that I have a one-way connection to Heaven!!!! Operator, can you break the connection. I'm not ready to go right now, I have another call to make"
Posted by: K.C. | June 24, 2006 at 12:30 AM
Now wait; I think before we can assign causality to this instance, we need more data. I need to see more people talking on cell phones hit by lightning before I can say that the simple use of one increases the risk of strike.
Posted by: Dr. Doug | June 25, 2006 at 06:42 AM
Dear Dr. Doug,
If you would like to be the first test case in my new study regarding the use of cell phones during lightening strikes, I would like for you to participate in this experiment by going up to Diablo Mountain in the Colorado Mountains during a thunderstorm and call me on your cell phone. My number is 1-800-555-1212. When you have completed your call, just hang up. Write your report and come on down the mountain. We will meet at the Inn located on Hwy 66 and discuss the results of your call. At that time you will be reimbursed for your courageous effort. Sincerely, Ludvig Tesla
Posted by: The Great Krisby | June 25, 2006 at 01:42 PM