buying a 56K modem...

[Tim]

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 23:33 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> We had a lightning storm and there was this ball of light that 
> S L O W L Y drifted down the telco line to the modem. I were all
> stunned to see it, then it clicked inside my head; 
> 
> "U-N-P-L-U-G  T-H-E  M-O-D-E-M !!!"  

I doubt you'd have been able to do anything, no matter how quickly you
reacted.  While the light show might have been a slow thing to progress,
the current going through the line would have been just as quick as
electricity is in any other form.