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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Lightening
Message-ID: <1678@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 11:30:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 11:30:25 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Jul-85 01:13:52 EDT
References: <28361@lanl.ARPA>, <941@teddy.UUCP>
Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr
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> >Lest anyone become confused, lightening is the phenomenon of the descent
> >of the uterus into the pelvic cavity occuring toward the end of pregnancy.
> >
> >Lightning is a luminous electric discharge in the atmosphere.
> >
> >Got it now??
> >Jim Potter jp@lanl.arpa
> 
> FLAME!
> The sort of completely non-informational reply and the invariable flame it
> demands clutters the net with pointless nonsense.

A good many people misspell lightning; I though Jim's gently humorous
response was completely inoffensive (not to mention informative - I'd
never heard of lightening before).  I don't believe it "demands" a flame
in response.  Unfortunately the gentlest of helpful corrections can be
misconstrued as a vicious personal attack by those desiring to do so.
-- 
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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