Was just listening to Meatloaf, and noticed these words that I have heard a hundred times before, but never really given a second thought....."It was a hot summer night and the beach was burning, there was fog crawling over the sand."

It occurred to me that fog is caused by warm, moisture laden air blowing in from the warm ocean onto cool ground, which causes a drop in the temperature of the air close to the ground, resulting in saturation of the moisture content, and consequentially a fog appears.

Therefore, if the beach was so hot as to give a burning sensation to your feet, there would be no way that a fog could form over the sand.

How has this escaped everyone's attention for so long?

Harrow said..
How has this escaped everyone's attention for so long?

Because Meatloaf.

Bats don't live in hell either. They live in caves.

septfun said..

sausage said...
Bats don't live in hell either. They live in caves.

how could you possibly know that????

Everyone knows bats live in caves!!

DavMen said..
Stop right here before this thread goes any further......

You took the words right out my mouth...

I will do anything, but I won't do that...

Harrow said..
Was just listening to Meatloaf, and noticed these words that I have heard a hundred times before, but never really given a second thought....."It was a hot summer night and the beach was burning, there was fog crawling over the sand."

It occurred to me that fog is caused by warm, moisture laden air blowing in from the warm ocean onto cool ground, which causes a drop in the temperature of the air close to the ground, resulting in saturation of the moisture content, and consequentially a fog appears.

Therefore, if the beach was so hot as to give a burning sensation to your feet, there would be no way that a fog could form over the sand.

How has this escaped everyone's attention for so long?

Dunno Harrow.....but

"give you answer in the morning"

especially if :
surf's up

...and their ain't no Coupe De Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.

Sorry I just like saying that.

Harrow said..
Was just listening to Meatloaf, and noticed these words that I have heard a hundred times before, but never really given a second thought....."It was a hot summer night and the beach was burning, there was fog crawling over the sand."

It occurred to me that fog is caused by warm, moisture laden air blowing in from the warm ocean onto cool ground, which causes a drop in the temperature of the air close to the ground, resulting in saturation of the moisture content, and consequentially a fog appears.

Therefore, if the beach was so hot as to give a burning sensation to your feet, there would be no way that a fog could form over the sand.

How has this escaped everyone's attention for so long?

have you considered that maybe, while pondering whether to give their throat to the wolf with the red roses, beach goers on that hot summer night, suddenly chilled by the rolling in of the moist cool fog, lit bonfires and so the beach had an appearance of burning...?

I believe the song was written when he was on a beach in the French Riviera................................ if you listen carefully you will hear FROG not FOG!

Harrow said..
I was just reading "the cloudspotters guide" by Gavin Prettor pinney and noticed these words that I have just read. "It was a hot summer night and the beach was burning, there was fog crawling over the sand."

It occurred to me that .......

Has anyone else read this book?

yes i have to.