Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 12, 2014

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    suevanv Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Arlo is right…thunder is the sound that lightning makes…so you’re actually hearing the lightning. Once a science geek always a science geek.

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    GR6  over 9 years ago

    Whatever. The important thing is that if you hear it, it has probably already missed you.

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    Greg Johnston  over 9 years ago

    I’m pretty sure Arlo’s sleep-muddled brain should roll over and be quiet. You see lightning, you hear thunder, the sound lightning makes.

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    Varnes  over 9 years ago

    I’ve felt lightning……Never did see it or hear it…..Only been struck by lightning once…That’s enough…..

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    billytheclam  over 9 years ago

    I said its like thunderIts like lightningThe way you love me is frightn’inI think I better knock, knock, knock on wood

    otis redding, knock on wood.

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    Boophilus  over 9 years ago

    “I hear barking”. “You hear a dog”What is this, a Spin & Speak? :-)I don’t understand the “correction.”

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    LHPuttgrass  over 9 years ago

    I smell fire.

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    Q4horse  over 9 years ago

    Lightning, thunder! Considering what the weather has been like this summer, they should be running for the basement.

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    Egrayjames  over 9 years ago

    The point here is that some people just have to knit pick everything you say. My family is a lot like that. I think we got it from my Dad. I know I get on a roll some times with my wife and have to reign myself in. No one likes to be constantly criticized, and it can be very damaging to a relationship. Teasing is one thing…..constant critique is another.

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    shaffermg  over 9 years ago

    Listen… do you smell something?

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    rugeirn  over 9 years ago

    “I hear footsteps.” “No, you hear shoes.” Same logic, just as stupid. “I hear talking.” “No, you hear vocal cords.” Same logic again, also just as stupid. There is no reason for such inane pedantry.

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    All Dan All Day Premium Member over 9 years ago

    The comment are very “en-lightning”.

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    LuvThemPluggers  over 9 years ago

    A few years ago, we heard “thunder that goes on and on” in the middle of the night. Didn’t find out until the morning news, it was a landslide. So we didn’t technically hear thunder, but the mountain burping?

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    Gokie5  over 9 years ago

    If Janis lived in the Tampa Bay area in Florida, she’d be popping up and down all night like a clown bop-toy. Why should she be angry or upset about thunder at night? Or announce loudly that she heard it? I know it’s a comic, but sheesh.

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    1MadHat Premium Member over 9 years ago

    “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”.Mark Twain, 1908

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    Griffins Run  over 9 years ago

    Pedantic.

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    alc7 Premium Member over 9 years ago
    I wouldn’t want to rain on your parade but, we have to assume it was drawn by a “real” person about things that would ap “peal” to real people. Hold your “thunderous” applause til’ the end. Please don’t bolt for the door. Its’ only a wise “crack”.
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    hippogriff  over 9 years ago

    Varnes: It missed me. I did not see it, outside my window was only clear, blue sky. I heard it; my ears took awhile to recover. I felt it; major chest compression followed by a sort of vibration in my teeth. The lightning, from a very black sky, had struck an abandoned Conalrad radio tower on the other side of a relatively small building. “This was only a test… Had it been a real lightning bolt, the tower would have melted onto the building.”

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    assrdood  over 9 years ago

    We used to say “God’s bowling”.

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    locake  over 9 years ago

    I live near Tampa, the lightning capital of the U.S. We see the lightning and hear the thunder. You don’t hear anything until a few second after the lightning. Thunder is the sound of lightning.

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    Mr.Bubbles2257  over 9 years ago

    Just a comment. I was standing 20 ft. from a transformer when it got hit by lightning. I saw the strike and heard crackling then I heard thunder. After that I always thought of thunder as the echo. I am definitely not a scientist.

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    David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault  over 9 years ago

    “I hear the thunder caused by lightning. ".“No, you hear the thunder caused by dynamite.”

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    jppjr  over 9 years ago

    Stormy nights always meant snuggling when the ex and I were together…she didn’t like that type of weather!!

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    wrene  over 9 years ago

    Well, if we’re going to get sciency, lightning causes thunder: the electric discharge separates the air, and when the air rushes back together, it creates the sound we call thunder. So we hear thunder created by lightning.

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    snootbag  over 9 years ago

    I just heard lightning and I saw the thunder!!

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    sharonlynn  over 9 years ago

    I think its more “I hear barking” “no you hear dogs”.. so it would be “you hear lightning thundering?”

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    George Alexander  over 9 years ago

    Egrayj: Speaking of corrections, it’s “reining…in,” not “reign…in.” Kings reign, and rein in their horse.

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 9 years ago

    So, if lightening is what you hear, what is thunder?

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    Egrayjames  over 9 years ago

    To all who corrected my grammatical errors……“Dad….Is that you?”

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