It means your handle is longer than the rest of ours. That means you're a non-conformist and that leads us to believe you are a witch.

The fact that UnderFreud let you get away with it means he has a PRO-Witch
Agenda!!

Y'all been eating moldy rye bread again?
Don't make me touch you with my noodly appendage.

[jan bradyhooligan]HEY, why does beauregaard always get the longer line? beauregaard, beauregaard, beauregaard.[/jan bradyhooligan]

Oh, so do I. I can't change my answer now. It was the first answer to pop into my head, but now I'm not so sure. HLJ may be putting the tip jar over the top.

LMAO! Funniest!

[foreshadowing]I got a bad feeling about this one...[/foreshadowing]

wth? You're eyesight is either much better or much worse than mine.....

(psssst.. you should be reaching for your wallet about now...)

Yep. That's gonna hurt.

Winnah. Smart money doesn't bet against the glatt. glatt, were you the kind of kid who turned immediately to the Eyeball Benders puzzle in Games Magazine too? You're good. Real good.

Lightning strike is right. Technically, I reckon it struck somewhere higher then ran past the spot in the first photo *reallyfast* on its way to earth. Very cool. Killed the power in the house. Indescribably loud.

A couple more pics of the tree. The lightning hit the tree much farther up (of course) and followed the highly conductive (wet) path of least resistance to earth along this line. Under the bark, where the sap was instantly turned to steam, exploding this strip of bark right off the tree. Very very cool! It's Science!

Pic 01 -- Looking upward at the path of the strike.

Pic 02 -- The puddle of bark like an enormous woolly noodle.

:)

It seemed to miss a spot. A small stretch of bark is still intact.

How do we know it wasn't just a really big deer?

OK, I was wrong. I've paid the piper.

(P.S. On the paypal site, it says,
Your order is being shipped to

and it lists my home address. So I guess I now own the Cellar. I wonder how they'll ship it.)

you should dig around the base of the tree to see if there are any fulgerites.

I noticed that too. A drier spot? The bark was more tightly adhered there? The conductive path was deeper? A vent / crack in the bark we can't see that relieved the pressure? I don't know.

You, sir, are the man, and a helluva good sport too. I'll try to find some more pictures with deer strikes in them just for you. :)

What is this? A pretty easy one, I admit. The follow ups will be interesting.

Oh look the tip mug is full...! Well done gents, and thanks.

It's a circle of lights reflected in someone's eyeball... now, if you're looking for me to tell you what the lights are, you're out of luck.

Looks like warp speed captain! Beam me up Scotty.

How'd you get a pic of my last abduction by aliens?