2 Famous last words. <sound of crashing thunder; windows shake; bones rattle and hum> Exhibit A.
3 Which reminds me: did you see that You Tube of the fellow who got hit by lightning twice?
4 The first one slammed him to the pavement. I didn't catch the second one, because my computer sound card crashed, as is its wont.
5 Scary thing to see.
6 I vaguely remember some show, might have been Carson, where there was an interview with a guy who held the Guinness World Record for having been struck by lightning.
7 My recollection, which isn't good, tells me that it happened to the guy seven times.
8 S-E-V-E-N.
9 When asked to talk about each, he reported in matter-of-fact style. He was a park ranger, but still.
10 By the time he was asked about the seventh, he took off his Ranger hat, proudly displaying a large hole in the top of it.
11 He said that right about then he started to believe in the Lord.
12 D'ya think?
13 Crazy.
14 I couldn't stand it last night so I went to the now infamous Wiki to find out about the guy. His name was Roy Cleveland Sullivan. Here is his Wiki Story:
Roy Cleveland Sullivan, 1012-1983
from Wiki:
Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, 1912-September 28, 1983) was a U.S. park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Between 1942 and 1977 Sullivan was hit by lightning on seven different occasions and survived all of them. For this reason he gained a nickname "Human Lightning Conductor" or "Human Lightning Rod". Sullivan is recognized by Guinness World Records as the person struck by lightning more recorded times than any other human being. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 71 over an unrequited love.
15 The article goes into minute details of each encounter.
16 I attempted a cut/paste but it immediately began messing with today's DN, and we can't have that.
17 Tell you what. I'll furbish the link below and let you pursue it from there. Here go:
18 I do recall seeing the guy on The Tonight Show. He was personable, and when asked about the last strike, he took off his hat and said that right about then he began to believe in God. That part has definitely come back.
19 This made the crowd laugh and applaud.
20 This was brought up to be used as filler for today's DN. I was up late grading horrid essays and decided that I'd need to shorten the DN, as I also have to get in early this morning.
21 I thought the brief tale of poor ol' Roy might entertain.
22 I never knew he done himself in over an unrequited love, AND at the ripe old age of 71.
23 There's more to that story. Gotta be.
24 I'll put it on the back burner and hopefully get to it some other time. Right now I have a saloon to run, and the fonts are changing and jumping around on me at midnight. This happened partially because I tried a quick cut/paste, which often knocks the blogging server dudes crazy. Can't handle it.
25 Unfortunately I'm going to have to give Roy some short shrift. I'll try to hunt down the appearance on the old Tonight Show. As I said, right now I'm up to my ears in alligators. Quick Sidebar: a commercial just came on TCM advertising Johnny Carson. Not an amazing coincidence; I've had several more this week, but a minor coincidence nonetheless. It did come on right after I wrote about Carson earlier in this piece. So it goes; so it goes.
26 Moving On, Part One: the students bring in their Renaissance masks today. It is always a fun day, because it brings the entire Spring semester to life.
27 Yesterday I had the students group up and put their vocab sentences into Shakespearean language. Even took pictures of some of their work for you to read, but I may need to stall that one out 'til tomorrow, or 'til I've mastered my new iPhone. Slow roll over in these here parts.
28 Right now the deadlines are all over me, so I'm afraid I'll need to bounce early.
29 I'll need to get back to you tomorrow after I've tanked a little gasoline and hemlock.
30 Gottago. This blogging app is throwing lines and odd fonts at me and I'm gonna stop 'fore it gets any worse.
31 Phoebes just came over and barked loudly in my ear. She knows I'm hard of hearing and was trying to be understanding. I feel like a perfect cross between Matthew McConaughey and Judy Holliday.
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