On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow <janet.r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump
=
in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the
subject=
and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This
piece=
of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a
body=
of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us
t=
hat in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually
=
quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours
(apparentl=
y),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for
one=
thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time,
Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass
grow=
ing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday
afternoons?=
'=2E This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that
=
went
> bump?'. One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified
i=
s 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We
m=
ust
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go
Bu=
mp'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating
sys=
tem,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan
but=
which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a
lo=
g of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most
im****=
tantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The
matte=
r of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their
experienc=
es, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this
fascinati=
ng
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> =A91996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow
This is one of your published folio then
I take it?
Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is tem****arily diminished.
Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead fla****ng does not
contract at all.
G DAEB
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