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

From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:37 2004
Message-ID: <3FCBC209.7060905_at_fascination.com>

Dear All,
I notice the reference to her "purdy" hip...is that related to her other
hip that is "Ugully"?
Indeed, the story does proport "hickism"...
Dave F.
mjwy

Claudia Carroll wrote:

>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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