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Title: Proof that Cosby sweaters can KILL!!!!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on September 20, 2005, 04:46:59 pm

With more than just their atrocious appearance...
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-09-16T143042Z_01_EIC652134_RTRIDST_0_ODD-AUSTRALIA-ELECTRICITY-DC.XML


mrC

Title: Re: Proof that Cosby sweaters can KILL!!!!
Post by: Crazy Cooter on September 20, 2005, 04:49:31 pm

I don't need to read the article, I've seen the show  ;).

Title: Re: Proof that Cosby sweaters can KILL!!!!
Post by: Stingray on September 20, 2005, 04:53:05 pm

Okay that's just freakish.

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Firefighters took possession of Clewer's jacket and stored it in the courtyard of the fire station, where it continued to give off a strong electrical current.

-S

Title: Re: Proof that Cosby sweaters can KILL!!!!
Post by: ChadTower on September 20, 2005, 05:14:40 pm

Given that your heart, brain, spinal cord, and entire central nervous system work on electrical impulses... I'd tend to think someone is playing a fast one on Reuters.

Title: Re: Proof that Cosby sweaters can KILL!!!!
Post by: dmsuchy on September 20, 2005, 06:27:30 pm

Cheap energy source!

Title: Re: Proof that Cosby sweaters can KILL!!!!
Post by: Crazy Cooter on September 20, 2005, 07:47:10 pm

"Static electricity is a similar mechanism to lightning, where you have clouds rubbing together and then a spark generated by very dry air above them," said Gosden

I'm not a meteorologist, but I don't remember ever hearing about clouds "rubbing together". ::)

Title: Re: Proof that Cosby sweaters can KILL!!!!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on September 20, 2005, 08:08:33 pm

Quote from: Crazy Cooter on September 20, 2005, 07:47:10 pm

I'm not a meteorologist, but I don't remember ever hearing about clouds "rubbing together". ::)

Clouds dry-humping, build static...sounds about right.



mrC

Title: Re: Proof that Cosby sweaters can KILL!!!!
Post by: Stingray on September 21, 2005, 09:16:56 am

Sure, clouds rub together. If you listen closely you can hear the sound they make: deefer, deefer.

-S

Title: Re: Proof that Cosby sweaters can KILL!!!!
Post by: Shape D. on September 21, 2005, 11:48:47 am

I have proof that really long links can kill.