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- From: cms@dragon.com (Spawn of a Jewish Carpenter (Cindy Smith))
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- Subject: Re: "Can't see it thunder"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.161932.1004@dragon.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 16:19:31 EST
- Organization: Computer Projects Unlimited
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- Where does the expression "can't see it thunder" come from? If a
- room is dark, I've heard people say, "You can't see it thunder in
- here." Thunder is the noise, not the lightening. Did the word
- "thunder" once mean both thunder and lightening?
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- Cindy Smith -- Spawn of a Jewish Carpenter
- cms@dragon.com || A Real Live Catholic in Georgia
- emory!dragon!cms ||
- ><> /\ Woe to craven hearts and drooping hands,
- Delay not your .--/--\--. to the sinner who treads a double path!
- conversion |----\/-||-\/----| Woe to the faint of heart who trust not,
- to the Lord, |----/\-||-/\----| who therefore will have no shelter!
- put it not off `--\--/--' Woe to you who have lost hope!
- from day to day \/ what will you do at the visitation of the Lord?
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- -- Ecclesiasticus || -- Ecclesiasticus/Ben Sira 2:12-14
- /Ben Sira 5:8 --
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