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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
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Subject: Re: Re: Ball lightening
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 10:07:55 EST
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> This is a little
> odd since I believe there is at least one historical account of a death
> caused by coming into contact with ball lightning.
> 
Which reminds me of a story whose source I have forgotten.  It may even
be true.  A husband and wife were sitting on the front porch during
a storm, and ball lightning was formed.  The ball lightning moved
across the lawn and over to the porch door where it dissipated itself
with a loud bang on the screen, immolating a fly in the process.  The
wife (she must have been a Vermonter) without batting an eye remarked,
"Sure got that fly that time, Henry!"

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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