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hunter

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7. Electricity was named after this hot woman named Amber.

Reply to redqueen (Original post)

Tue Jan 17, 2012, 03:53 PM

Jan 2012

New Latin ēlectricus, "amber-like."

She could make your toes tingle, but when she was angry she was like lightning.

Her acolytes were called electrons, and they were everywhere, and there were many ways to bring them forth.

Twenty dollars in the red light district would usually do the trick.

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Electricity is a mystery! [View all] redqueen Jan 2012 OP

E-FUCKING-GADS! HopeHoops Jan 2012 #1

That kind of stupid should be excruciatingly painful hobbit709 Jan 2012 #2

Yechhh. geardaddy Jan 2012 #3

Maybe ICP can give their idiot juggalos a new song snooper2 Jan 2012 #4

Electricity is really mysterious because God does it. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2012 #5

She's going to hell for using that hair dryer. Hair dryers are instruments of Satan. ohiosmith Jan 2012 #6

Electricity was named after this hot woman named Amber. hunter Jan 2012 #7

! MilesColtrane Jan 2012 #8

sigh, I seem to be using Tommy Lee Jones more and more charlie and algernon Jan 2012 #9

Um....... Taverner Jan 2012 #10

scratch 'electrical engineer' from the future careers for the voluntarily stupid. rurallib Jan 2012 #11

LOL, reminds me of the James Thurber piece klook Jan 2012 #12

My ex-mother-in-law thought the reason her refrigerator wasn't working The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2012 #13

Well, of course that's perfectly plausible klook Jan 2012 #14

Maybe KO could read that. sakabatou Jan 2012 #17

It's not a mystery, ITS FROM THE DEVIL!!!!1!1!! stevenleser Jan 2012 #15

Seriously, how do these people remember to breathe? Dead_Parrot Jan 2012 #16

To these idiot: Lightning. sakabatou Jan 2012 #18