In a message dated 6/2/2003 10:15:35 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Of probably no particular interest to anyone:
It's an opening line that perks my interest.
Tonight was the first > astronomy class of the summer term, and we had gotten just about to the > halfway point, and I was winding the string around my gyroscope in order to > use it to demonstrate precession, when the county sheriff who does security > for the campus stuck his head in the door to tell us that we had to > evacuate the room because a tornado warning had been issued for the > area.
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The next time this class meets, tell them that that was your E.L.E. demonstration.
Well, at the beginning I told them that when and if we would go outside to use the telescope would depend on the weather . . . apparently so does whether or not we get to finish class . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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