Raindrops falling on my head is one thing, but bricks would just be painful.

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You know, most of the time my job is rather spectacularly boring. I spend my time alternately obsessively reloading LJ and reading lots and lots and lots of 17th century sermons railing against licentiousness and papists. Every once in a while, though, I find a winner:

HItherto we have made mentlon
onely of naturall rayne, and that
which is common, which no man doth
marvell at. But there is some time such
rayne, that worthily may be wondred
at: as when it raineth wormes, frogges,
fishes, blood, milke, flesh, stones wheat,
iron, wooll, bricke, and quicksilver.

--From Meteors:
OR,
A plain Descripti|on
of all kind of Meteors,
as well Fiery and Ayrie, as
Watry and Earthy:
BRIEFLY
Manifesting the Causes of
all Blazing-Stars, Shooting-Stars,
Flames in the Aire, Thunder,
Lightning, Earthquakes,
Rain, Dew, Snow, Clouds,
Springs, Stones, and
Metalls.
By W. F. Doctor in
Divinitie.

Oh, 17th century meteorology. Way to make my Thursday a little more interesting.

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That was so cool! The range of things listed is pretty broad - would it rain those things separately, or could you have wool, worms and bricks in the same storm? That could get really nasty...