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Yes, lightning is an electrostatic discharge. (That would make a great name for an alt-rock band!) Here is a
detailed explanation for those of us who are highly intelligent:
What causes Lightning? | Royal Meteorological Society (rmets.org)
And here is a simple, easy-to-understand explanation for those of us who are dummies:
What causes lightning and thunder? | NOAA SciJinks – All About Weather
detailed explanation for those of us who are highly intelligent:
What causes Lightning? | Royal Meteorological Society (rmets.org)
And here is a simple, easy-to-understand explanation for those of us who are dummies:
What causes lightning and thunder? | NOAA SciJinks – All About Weather
Lightning is what happens when god scuffs his feet on the carpet and then touches his little brothers ear.
You didn’t know god had a little brother, did you?
His name is Eugene.
You didn’t know god had a little brother, did you?
His name is Eugene.
I've told the story of how I found $100 (two 50 dollar bills) outside of a hotel in Turks & Caicos. And then later that day, I unexpectedly ordered a $64 fish entrée at a restaurant, which was part of a much larger dinner tab.
TIL in 1910, two kids (10 and 6) went to New York alone, by horseback, from Oklahoma. I guess that makes us all overprotective helicopter parents?
Ultimate free-range kids: Two boys, 6 and 10, rode horses to New York — from Oklahoma
When Louis and Temple Abernathy set out on horseback for New York from a ranch in Tillman County, Okla., they were 10 and 6 years old. The trek wasn’t even the boys’ first long-distance ride; they had traveled to Santa Fe, N.M., the previous year.
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Louis (whom his brother called “Bud”) and Temple left Oklahoma early in April. Louis rode his father’s horse, Sam Bass, and Temple rode a pony named Geronimo. Temple was so small that he had to climb on a stump to mount, and often slid down the pony’s leg rather than drop to the ground. They rode without maps, watching the sun and asking directions as they went.
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The boys faced a blizzard. Geronimo foundered and had to be replaced with a horse that was named Wylie Haines after an Oklahoma deputy. Temple came down with a fever, and he was once almost swept away crossing a river.
Ultimate free-range kids: Two boys, 6 and 10, rode horses to New York — from Oklahoma
When Louis and Temple Abernathy set out on horseback for New York from a ranch in Tillman County, Okla., they were 10 and 6 years old. The trek wasn’t even the boys’ first long-distance ride; they had traveled to Santa Fe, N.M., the previous year.
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Louis (whom his brother called “Bud”) and Temple left Oklahoma early in April. Louis rode his father’s horse, Sam Bass, and Temple rode a pony named Geronimo. Temple was so small that he had to climb on a stump to mount, and often slid down the pony’s leg rather than drop to the ground. They rode without maps, watching the sun and asking directions as they went.
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The boys faced a blizzard. Geronimo foundered and had to be replaced with a horse that was named Wylie Haines after an Oklahoma deputy. Temple came down with a fever, and he was once almost swept away crossing a river.
Sam Bass was a notorious outlaw. Why did the boys' father name a horse after him? And Geronimo was an Apache leader and medicine man. It is said that when Geronimo donned a parachute and jumped out of an airplane, he would yell "Meeeee!!!"
www.roundrocktexas.gov
The Story of Sam Bass
A brief history of the life of western outlaw Sam Bass, especially his death in a shootout in Round Rock, TX.
www.roundrocktexas.gov
Yeah that is odd. Especially since their dad was a US Marshal. It would be like if my dad was chief of police and I named our dog after some guy who shot up the local school.
IndustrialH
"Not dead... just resting"
I didn't even knew Uncle Ben's rice got renamed. What wrong with the name Gypsy?
Speaking of sports teams being renamed the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League are now called the Edmonton Elks.
Just adding this... I am a week behind.
A hidden swear word on a headstone has stirred controversy in this Iowa community | CNN
A loving message on headstone at a cemetery in Polk County, Iowa, hides a not-so-decent joke in honor of the deceased man's unique sense of humor. But not everyone in town finds it funny.
www.cnn.com
Some
horrible
Iowan
trash-talk.
(See what I did there? It will make sense after you've read the story.)
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
A hidden swear word on a headstone has stirred controversy in this Iowa community | CNN
A loving message on headstone at a cemetery in Polk County, Iowa, hides a not-so-decent joke in honor of the deceased man's unique sense of humor. But not everyone in town finds it funny.
I did something like that in college once.A hidden swear word on a headstone has stirred controversy in this Iowa community | CNN
A loving message on headstone at a cemetery in Polk County, Iowa, hides a not-so-decent joke in honor of the deceased man's unique sense of humor. But not everyone in town finds it funny.
Some
horrible
Iowan
trash-talk.
(See what I did there? It will make sense after you've read the story.)
A professor pissed me off, and I thought I'd have a private subliminal joke at his expense.
Our projects for the semester were presented at an art gallery downtown so I titled a project:
Evenings
Around
Town
Music &
Entertainment
Driving
Optimum
Nightlife
(I changed the name, but the original had a better flow.)
I would have gotten away with it, but I told one roommate, who told someone else, then the next thing I knew everyone in the gallery was walking up to my project and laughing. It was only a matter of time before the faculty found out.
At one point, I looked across the room to see the Dean take my project off the wall and move it to a storage room.
The professor wanted me expelled.
Other faculty wanted me to get an F for the semester.
There was a disciplinary meeting with the Dean, department Chair, and another professor. I guess the professor I insulted was scared to attend. The prof in the meeting was trying to say that my hidden message was me calling "Don" gay.
I was stupid enough to say "If that was what I meant, it was an invitation, which makes me gay......"
Then an even more stupid thing for me to say was "If anything, I'm saying that he's a cannibal......."
The Dean cracked a grin.....for just a second.....
They asked why I did it, so I told them why the prof pissed me off, and that I made a bad judgement call while I was pulling an all-nighter trying to finish the project. I said I wouldn't do it again, and that I'd behave.
I don't know how I pulled it off, but they only dropped my grade by one letter grade, and they put a letter in my permanent record.
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IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
That is a fantastic story hectic! Well done!
However if the faculty had some balls and actually expelled you they probably would have set you on a path to a career that could actually help society...like a storage place manager...and not a member of our most despised profession.
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I had considered managing a storage place, but thought it would be more prestigious taking a job cleaning up road-kill.
I hate those things. And half of them with sensors don't work right.
You wave your hands under them and nothing. You move your hand out of the way, then water. By the time you hand gets back under the faucet, the water stops again. I swear they are a practical joke that plumbing engineers play on the world.
You wave your hands under them and nothing. You move your hand out of the way, then water. By the time you hand gets back under the faucet, the water stops again. I swear they are a practical joke that plumbing engineers play on the world.