We just had the Seventh Plague, what's next? Frogs? Locusts?

[JR]

Major electrical storm yesterday with funnel clouds, one tornado sighting and hail--a foot of it, to be exact.

 

[slappy4428]

 

[pseudo]

Day-umn, JR. We had some hail -- I got caught in it while walking back to the parking lot at Chautauqua -- but nothing like that.

Good stuff, slappy.
Frank Deford (the reason I was out there, and an absolutely delightful speaker) talked about the Cubbies during the Q-and-A following his lecture:

I did my commentary last week on the Cubs and what I said, and I’ll repeat it here, was: In the Middle Ages, only a time slightly more distant from us than 1908 ...
(laughter)
... in the Middle Ages, it was said that to turn lead into gold is easy — all you had to do when you performed the process was never think of the world hippopotamus. Now of course, once that’s been put in your mind, you have to think of hippopotamus all the time.

I’ve said the Cubs will win if only no one thinks of 1908. Which is impossible to do but I do think once a century ... think they ought to play the music from “Brigadoon” every day at Wrigley Field with the hopes that it will return to us.

 

[imjustagirl]

Please don't let it be frogs.

 

[joe]

Mmmm ... frog legs.

 

[slappy4428]

What happened to the frog picture?

 

[mustangj17]

Nothing is more strange than someone shoveling hail in a short sleeve shirt. Weather is weird sometimes.

 

[JR]

What happened to the frog picture?

I took it down. It freaked IJAG out. And since we're buddies, it's the least I could do.

 

[imjustagirl]

And I told him he could leave it up, I just wouldn't read this thread any more.

Frogs are my No. 1 fear. Can't explain it. But seeing that thing freaked me out. So I wanted JR to know there was a reason why I said 'don't let it be frogs' but that I didn't care if the picture remained. I just didn't want him thinking it was a baseless post.