Big Bang in Rush not Blue White Flash (Thunder without lightning)

dublin | sci-tech | other press Monday July 02, 2007 17:20 by o as if

move along there nothing to see.

LEt it be known, recorded acknowledged & easy to find through search engines that during the nightfall which befell the coastal settlement of Rush [population 6,679] in the county of Dublin, the assizes of Fingal of the first to the second dates of the seventh month - A BIG BANG MORE OF A BOOM COMPLETE WITH RATTLES AND A BIT OF SUBSIDENCE AND TOTAL HORRIFIED EFFECTS LIKE wasn't really reported or paid attention to.

The BBC sent their man in Rush, Lush and neighbouring Dunabate to talk to locals as the Gardai began their daylight search for bearded men with foreign accents and mindful of the historical resonance of Rush as being the location chosen for two movies shot in 1965 by the names of " The Face of Fu Man Chu", "Ten Little Indians" and the even more significant "Rocket to the Moon" in 1966 were quickly rumoured to extend their search to all strangers in general with or without a TinTin crest.

Then something awesome happened. The Gardai found no evidence and no suspects and the finger of suspicion began to point out eastwards where the saxon foe lives.

Oh well bejaysus that wasn't going to go down well. We 'd be burning their embassy again, turning their queen away, and have no government department computers left unsinged. And so a top secret and hush hush meeting of the very discreet republic of Eire's equivalent of the COBRA commitee was had. They had me on a videoconference yoke from about 6am Central European Time. "Dr O'as-if!" said they - "we need a spot of crises management on the RushLusk thing what do you suggest?"

blame it on the freak weather said I and keep the kids with their geiger counters off the beaches, switch off the seismic graphs & yiz are all better off on bottled water for the while.
works every time.
done and dusted.
so - yiz are on bottled water till I give you the all clear.
remind me.
Learn more about the settlement of Rush & its bizarre movie past here :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush%2C_Dublin

Learn more about freak weather systems and how noisy they can be - we use the technical term thunder and associate it with lightning or as I prefer to call it the blue white flash. Not a puff of blacker than black smoke just lingering there all malignant on the beach.

Listen to the audio and note that the BBC though risking their man being abducted somewhere between Dunabate & Portane didn't think to carry the story in the end and sold it to RTE instead.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0702/rush.html