[meteorite-list] A Sign From Above (Sylacauga Meteorite)

From: Claudia Carroll <carroll4_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:37 2004
Message-ID: <410-220031211234252993_at_mindspring.com>

I may ask around about the radio. I have a few distant relatives in that
area.

What really eats me about that aritcle is that it makes people that live in
Alabama sound like hicks. Not all of us are hicks, though knowing some of
my neighbors I can sometimes see where others get the idea.

James Carroll


> [Original Message]
> From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
> To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com (Meteorite Mailing List)>
> Date: 12/1/2003 3:18:41 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] A Sign From Above (Sylacauga Meteorite)
>
>
>
> http://www.megastar.co.uk/news/news/2003/12/01/sMEG01MTA3MDI3MTAxODA.html
>
> A sign from above
> Mega Star (United Kingdom)
> December 1, 2003
>
> A sign from above
> November 30, 1954
>
> On November 30, 1954 the first modern day meteorite to strike a person
fell to
> earth in Alabama USA. This is how Megastar's Deep South correspondent
> reported the startling news...
>
> The world will duly end for y'all within the year after a rock-based sign
from
> the lord almighty struck down the life of a clean livin' lady of
Sylacauga,
> Alabama.
>
> Well nearabout. She got a whole heap of bruises and she ain't happy.
>
> Mrs Elizabeth Hodges was just fixin' to listen to that evening's radio
> broadcast of Billy-Bob Evangel's prayers for the terrible dead, when the
> flamin' rock from hell came a-crashin' through her ceiling.
>
> Before Miss Hodges had the horse sense to run from her dog-gone
> living room, lickety-split the fiery brick of sin - or meteorite as
> them blasphemous scientists are calling it - bounced off of her radio
> set and knocked her clean on her purdy hip.
>
> "I thought it was some kinda varmint," wailed Miss Hodges after
> the biblical sign. "I ain't no yaller dog, but I was just tore up by it
> all. As sure as grits is grits, I'm doomed."
>
> Elizabeth's husband, the county Frog Gigger was laying out that
> night at the city limits bar room, but when he returned to see his
> house darn tootin' cattywampus, he was quoted as saying: "What
> in tarnation!" Before collapsing from the intoxicatin' effects of the
> event.
>
> Fiery signs from God are as scarce as hen's teeth round these
> parts and this lil' June bug was a whole 8.5 pounds and seven
> inches in length.
>
> The state of Alabama is the first place to have someone injured by a
> brick of sin, though I hear tell a dog was struck down by the
> almighty in one of them there Egyptian places in 1911. All this
> marries right with the story of the Chihuahua and the stone of doom
> (Dwayne, Chapter 6, Verse 2).
>
> In other words, run for the hills kinfolk, the day of reckoning has
> come. Sho' nuff.
>
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