Digest whorl.v010.n041

David Langford · 31 Oct 1999, 08:46 · from whorl-v0010.mbox · original

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From: ansible at cix.compulink.co.uk (David Langford)
Subject: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n041
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 08:46 +0000 (GMT)
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alga propagated:

> Also yesterday there was a report of two women snoozing under a tree in=20
> Hyde Park who were killed by a lightning bolt that stuck their
> underwire bras.Now what writer, modernist, post-modernist, whatever,
> could possibly have made that up?

Vladimir Nabokov came close: "My very photogenic mother died in a freak=20
accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three ..."

The =3DEvening Standard=3D later reported more detailed pathologist's=20
evidence saying that although the underwires acted as a conductor, the=20
women would almost certainly have died if they hadn't been wearing those=20
bras.

Dave

David Langford
ansible at cix.co.uk | http://www.ansible.demon.co.uk/

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