Originally Posted by
Packrat
And then people wonder why a disproportionate number of white males are lightning strike victims. Add in golfers and you've pretty much got the picture.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
Mark Twain
LIGHTNING
The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.
- "Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning"
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
- Letter, 8/28/1908
The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether--Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.
- "The Weather," Mark Twain's Speeches