Weight, Weight, Don't Tell Me
Doug Harris
cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET
Tue Mar 4 14:23:32 UTC 2008
>From the National Weather (Whether?) Service this morning:
" A SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATION OF ICE IS EXPECTED WITH ACCUMULATIONS UP TO 1
INCH.MIXED WITH A LITTLE SLEET & SNOW. THE ICE WILL LIKELY CAUSE TREES &
POWERLINES TO SUCCUMB TO THE WAIT OF THE ICE WITH POWER OUTAGES EXPECTED. "
ALMOST an eggcorn. More an egg splatter.
dh
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