The magnitude of ranks of traffic cones being broken! Wondrous image, David. Youtube is full of scenes of Melbourne ranklings at the time. One shows a cat clawing the catgut strings of a guitar and lifting its head and moving whiskers curiously as it notices the room doing its slight sashay.
On 22/06/2012, at 4:23 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes, the 'sidewaysness', that's it. We had a lurch or shake here in the
> English East Midlands a few years ago: it threw loose things off roofs and
> broke the ranks of traffic cones and so forth, however, if you live in a 15
> storey block of flats, as I do, and at 1 o'clock in the morning it suddenly
> moves from one side to another like a tube train, it has a certain
> magnitude of statement, whatever Mr Richter might say.
>
> On 20 June 2012 00:58, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> less quake than rattle
>> seismic stomach lurches
>>
>> put down to clothes dryer
>> now confirmed to be
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>> Moe-centred subterranean
>> lurchings.
>>
>> it was the sidewaysness
>> that unnerved.
>>
>> the fast talk that followed
>> soon returned equilibrium.
>>
>> Bill Wootton
>>
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