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A Question

David Schmader
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Probably a pole-mounted electrical transformer 'sploded. Not as interesting as any of your choices, unfortunately.
Dr_Awesome on April 1, 2011 at 11:26 AM Report this
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A transformer explosion?
TortoiseTurtle on April 1, 2011 at 11:28 AM Report this
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The BLUE ANGELS, baby!!!
Urgutha Forka on April 1, 2011 at 11:28 AM Report this
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That's what splodin transformers look like.
The CHZA on April 1, 2011 at 11:30 AM Report this
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Urgutha lives about 10 blocks away from a substation near National Jewish Hospital. It's blown four times in the last year. I can't wait to see his reaction the next time it cuts loose. We're talking mushroom cloud here.
Fifty-Two-Eighty on April 1, 2011 at 11:41 AM Report this
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I asked this question! I figured it was a transformer, but I wanted to find out...
Actually, my friend who was sleeping on my couch was awoken and totally freaked out by it, fearing bullets (poor dear lived next door to the Biltmore when that guy shot it up, and was walking down the street when JTW got shot, she thinks everything's a gunshot)

And for the record, I don't believe in acid flashbacks.
More, I Say! on April 1, 2011 at 11:42 AM Report this
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@6, not believing in acid flashbacks is proof of acid flashbacks.
Fnarf on April 1, 2011 at 11:49 AM Report this
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i heard it when i was getting ready for work this morning, it sounded like something really big falling....
punkballerina on April 1, 2011 at 11:52 AM Report this
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Calm down people, it was not a space ship crashing, honest...
Merchant Seaman on April 1, 2011 at 12:39 PM Report this
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@5, is the mushroom cloud supposed to be the substation blowing or Urgutha's reaction?
starsandgarters on April 1, 2011 at 12:56 PM Report this
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Yes, absolutely.
Fifty-Two-Eighty on April 1, 2011 at 1:09 PM Report this
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Just for the record: Bleach and Ammonia don't explode, they just create a cloud of deadly vapors that will kill you in about 1 minute.

I assumed the "explosion-fireball" was another "meteorite" landing on Earth so that the "Volartians" who live out beyond the "Kuiper Belt" can continue to "study" "us".

But that wasn't an option on your little voting thing. So I must assume they've already gotten to y--
treacle on April 1, 2011 at 1:48 PM Report this
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Those were all excellent options. I was sad to have to pick only one answer!
subwlf on April 1, 2011 at 2:00 PM Report this
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I'm a mushroom cloud layin' muthafucka, muthafucka!
Urgutha Forka on April 1, 2011 at 2:21 PM Report this
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There was no transformer explosions this morning. I have a little thing that beeps at me when that happens, and it didn't beep.

Just to be on the safe side, I even looked at the thing that makes the thing go beep, and it said nope.

I suggest operator error on the observer's part. Leave our transformers out of it.
Catalina Vel-DuRay on April 1, 2011 at 2:50 PM Report this
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@15 I protest! I wasn't the only one to hear it, I was corroborated by various sources in my building en route to work.

& @7, I guess what I mean is, I don't believe in "acid-flashbacks" per se. I think it would be more appropriately deemed acid-induced PTSD.
More, I Say! on April 1, 2011 at 3:33 PM Report this
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Group Halluncination?

Sonic Boom?

Sonic Youth?

If nothing else, blame it on the water department and call it a day. That's what we do.
Catalina Vel-DuRay on April 1, 2011 at 3:42 PM Report this
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we all know it was bleach and ammonia....
Thyme on April 1, 2011 at 3:49 PM Report this
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Catalina Vel-DuRay: Does the thingy that beeps also have a button that makes the nearest transformer blow up on command? Because that would be bitchin'.
Dr_Awesome on April 1, 2011 at 4:33 PM Report this
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Don't cross me, and you'll never find out, Doctor ;-)
Catalina Vel-DuRay on April 1, 2011 at 4:54 PM Report this
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Damn, I have met my match! Also, your pad is bitchin' *. Please invite me and The Future Mrs. Dr. Awesome to your next shindig.

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* I finally got around to clicking the link to Chez Vel-DuRay
Dr_Awesome on April 1, 2011 at 8:06 PM Report this
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ObeyTheFist on April 1, 2011 at 8:42 PM Report this
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To Catalina. Did your little thing go beep at about 6PM this evening? There was definitely a transformer explosion on Ravenna avenue at 55th street, right by the park Saw it with my own eyes--actually two explosions about a minute apart.
jm2002 on April 1, 2011 at 9:03 PM Report this
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Yes. In fact it got a little hysterical and tried to tell me that the enttire UW was out of power. Fortunately, it calmed itself. It never applogizes when it goes off the deep end like that though.

Thank you, Doctor. At our age, we hardly ever entertain anymore, but if nothing else i'll make sure you're invited to the wake.
Catalina Vel-DuRay on April 2, 2011 at 7:50 AM Report this
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@6 It's a good thing you don't have to actually believe in them for them to happen. Have fun with future flashbacks.
suddenlyorcas on April 2, 2011 at 9:35 AM Report this
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.....thunder and lightning?
Dcal on April 2, 2011 at 3:47 PM Report this
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Hahaha @25. Everything you learned in DARE is true.
More, I Say! on April 4, 2011 at 10:07 AM Report this

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