what were you told thundern'+lightenen' was?

Sparkle

As heard on Today FM; what were you told Thundern' and Lightnen' was?

I don't remember know it as anything other than that. But I rem minding my cousins,and telling them thunder-was an aeroplane flying low,and lightenen'-was the people on it taking pictures.

MrBigglesworth

God moving his furniture around was my scientific formula for thunder till the age of 10.

passive

yup...holy god moving the furniture

Zaph

God moving his furniture seems to be the standard spiel given by our parents because that's what I was told too.

tribble

I had an engineer for a father - I could have drawn you a 3rd level phisics course in my copybook by the time I was 6 :rolleyes:

mike65

God and furniture here too - never got an adequate explaination for the lightning though!

Mike.

PiE

I was told it was.. Thunder & Lightning...

Lukin Black

Originally posted by PiE
I was told it was.. Thunder & Lightning...

Ditto. I can't remember what age I was when I discovered it was two words and two different things, and not just one big word - thunnernlighting. I probably never noticed because I still have mental projections of my mum flapping round the house, sprinkling everyone with holy water, yanking everything out of the sockets, and warn us wains to stay away from the window or anything metal.

Then the stories of what happened to the wee boy (or wee girl if she forgot herself) who went running round a window with a pair of scissors during the thunnerlighting. Feel sorry for that poor child, as he/she was also drowned playing by a river, smothered by a plastic bag, died from blood poisoning after not washing their hands..

And she never thought to use a different place, age or anything for each of the stories.

stormkeeper

Originally posted by mike65
God and furniture here too - never got an adequate explaination for the lightning though!

Mike.

Perhaps it was when he tripped the furniture over a few plugs? :P

Then the stories of what happened to the wee boy (or wee girl if she forgot herself) who went running round a window with a pair of scissors during the thunnerlighting. Feel sorry for that poor child, as he/she was also drowned playing by a river, smothered by a plastic bag, died from blood poisoning after not washing their hands..

And she never thought to use a different place, age or anything for each of the stories.

I wouldn't worry about them too much if they died so many times... It must have been the Highlander

Originally posted by mike65
God and furniture here too - never got an adequate explaination for the lightning though!

Mike.

I was told it were the lights in the furniture removal van

lunacyfoundme

Not to contradict mr bigglesworth but more to completely lambast him. I think its Gods pet pooch. Ol Sammy. You know that thing gogs do when they drag their arse across the carpet.

Thats what it is.

Mossy Monk

god farting i was always told. never had an explanation for lightening though

celticfc

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
god farting i was always told. never had an explanation for lightening though

ROFL @ that.

It's a new one on me.

Supercell

On a similar vein...snow = god shaving..anyone got others?

Redshift

yup I got the furniture thing too and I even belived it too:p along with Santy, Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. Jeez

oneweb

Originally posted by lunacyfoundme
Not to contradict mr bigglesworth but more to completely lambast him. I think its Gods pet pooch. Ol Sammy. You know that thing gogs do when they drag their arse across the carpet.

Thats what it is.

rofl, gives a whole new meaning to 'Sparky'

ToxicPaddy

Originally posted by oneweb
rofl, gives a whole new meaning to 'Sparky'

classic..

Stark

God moving furniture around? Okay....

I was told it was an electrical storm and the thunder was a result of turbulence due to air being very rapidly heated as the lightning passes through it.

My parents weren't hell bent on raising kids to be retards (god moving furniture around pffft). Everything else I learned from watching the ba-ba box

Ichiro

When i was a boy
I was told it was God having a party for him and his angels,
The thunder was barrel's of beer been rolled across the floors of heaven.

And wait for it....

the Lighting was great big farts..
and the rain when they went to take a slash

What a wonderful imagination my parents had.

Silverfish

My dad used to tell me it was the end of the world and we were all going to die.




My dad is a bit mean.

Sarky

Clouds banging into eachother. Oh dear.

fozzle

Originally posted by k.oriordan
God moving furniture around? Okay....

I was told it was an electrical storm and the thunder was a result of turbulence due to air being very rapidly heated as the lightning passes through it.

My parents weren't hell bent on raising kids to be retards (god moving furniture around pffft). Everything else I learned from watching the ba-ba box

Ditto, the joy of having a science teacher for a mother. Although my cosin told me rain was god wathering his plants. :rolleyes:

Zaph

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Originally posted by Mossy Monk
god farting i was always told. never had an explanation for lightening though
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Probably God lighting his farts

banbutcher

i was told that it was two clowns in heaven banging beer barrels together, and i never questioned it, it seemed like a good enough explaination!! ah the young and the neieve!!

athena 2000

We were told that the angels were bowling. The rumble was the ball going down the lane and the crack! of the pins falling was the lightning!

The Sweeper

A party in heaven and them rolling out the barrels was the explanation in my house. That, and the night sky was God's floor, and the stars are holes in God's floor where the light shines through, and shooting stars are angels falling through the holes...

Then again, my folks told me that my dad's car could fly and had retractable wings that folded into the doors. The hazard warning button was taboo, as that was the 'wings' trigger. All this, on a Mazda 323 with a go faster stripe.

amp

Strangely I don't remember. I do remember believing there were little men inside disprin that fought pain and that there was a secret base full of Battle of the Planet ships underneath my back garden. But nothing about giants and stuff.

Somebody probably explained it to me how it worked in an easy to understand way.

I was such a nerd growing up. I remembering questioning the logic behind the phrase "You'll know that it's going to stop raining when there's enough blue in the sky to make a pair of trousers". I was like "but on what scale are we talking about? How big are these pants? Does the blue have to be in the shape of the pants?"

Disallusioned with this I vowed never to wear pants unless absolutely necessary.