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Do Giraffes Suffer From the Most Lightening Strikes?

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Dorothy Parker
 
Reply Sun 13 Jan, 2008 11:42 am
Just watching something on telly about lightening and how it's much more common in Africa which made me think about the poor giraffes so big and tall in those wide open spaces. Surely they must get stuck by lightening all the time?
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 13 Jan, 2008 11:51 am
They do:

Lightening strikes giraffes
McTag
 
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Reply Sun 13 Jan, 2008 12:14 pm
It might be enlightening to use the normal spelling for lightning.

:wink:

Confused

Smile

Embarrassed
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Sun 13 Jan, 2008 12:15 pm
Francis wrote:


Must be a Clairol ad! Laughing
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 13 Jan, 2008 12:19 pm
Sorry, guys, didn't spellcheck..
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 13 Jan, 2008 12:23 pm
Francis wrote:
Sorry, guys, didn't spellcheck..


Forgive my crass intrusion. Embarrassed Ms DP also.
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Sun 13 Jan, 2008 12:23 pm
Francis wrote:
Sorry, guys, didn't spellcheck..


Ahh, that's o.k.. It gave me an opening to throw out one of my funny lines! Laughing
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alex240101
 
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Reply Sun 13 Jan, 2008 12:24 pm
only the giraffes with silver fillings.
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Dorothy Parker
 
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Reply Tue 15 Jan, 2008 02:24 pm
Well maybe we should invest in some Giraffe-shaped Faraday cages for them.
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Gargamel
 
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Reply Tue 15 Jan, 2008 02:43 pm
It makes sense that giraffes would have this problem, considering they are the greatest sinners of the Animal Kingdom.
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Dorothy Parker
 
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Reply Tue 15 Jan, 2008 02:44 pm
Yeah, it's always the quiet ones......
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dlowan
 
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Reply Tue 15 Jan, 2008 07:06 pm
Gargamel wrote:
It makes sense that giraffes would have this problem, considering they are the greatest sinners of the Animal Kingdom.



Nonsense!!!


Aminals are still, effectively, in the pre-Fall mode.....after all, was it a GIRAFFE which ate the forbidden fruit???????


No, it wasn't.



Therefore, not having the knowledge of good and evil, (you can tell, because they still don't wear clothes or even fig leaves) they are incapable of sin.



Sometimes you are the very pitcher of ignorance!
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Gargamel
 
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Reply Tue 15 Jan, 2008 07:50 pm
Until giraffes accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, they are doomed to perennial electrocution on the African plains.
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Tue 15 Jan, 2008 07:54 pm
If giraffes are most likely to be hit by lightning, should we then assume that the common earthworm is least likely to be hit?

I speak, of course, of the ones who venture to the surface. Surely they would see the approaching lightning and quickly snap their head back into the ground.

Great subject, Dorothy!
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dlowan
 
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Reply Tue 15 Jan, 2008 08:09 pm
Gargamel wrote:
Until giraffes accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, they are doomed to perennial electrocution on the African plains.



They don't NEED saving you ridiculous pitcher of nonsense!!!!


They never sinned, therefore require no redemption!!!!

Jesus did not die for anything except homo sapiens.


Don't you items of glassware get taught even the most basic lineaments of the lore of those who cling to deist illusions? It's not like there aren't teeming hordes of them, and we need to know how they think.


Their electrocution is but the price they pay for having evolved to get at the choicest leaves. It's swings and roundabouts...nature in her relentless logic.
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cyphercat
 
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Reply Tue 15 Jan, 2008 10:27 pm
Giraffes, huh?

........Boy, giraffes are selfish. Runnin' around... lookin' after Number One...gettin' hit by lightning...




<hopes fervently for Chai to see this>
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dagmaraka
 
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Reply Tue 15 Jan, 2008 10:39 pm
couldn't the national park invest in a few lightning poles?
of course that might inspire pole dancing, striptease, gambling, drugs, crime and all that.
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 16 Jan, 2008 01:27 am
A pole AND a Faraday Cage....boy, this is getting kinky.
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squinney
 
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Reply Wed 16 Jan, 2008 06:25 am
Wait a minute...

Jesus died for homo's? Is that what da wabbit just claimed?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 16 Jan, 2008 06:35 am
squinney wrote:
Wait a minute...

Jesus died for homo's? Is that what da wabbit just claimed?



No....that is merely the myth.

But, in the myth, he did indeed die for homos...for they are homo sapiens.
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