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&lt;font color=red&gt;DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here.  Post them in our &lt;a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>XMOD (Build: 3607.32596)</generator><item><title>Re: Can it rain frogs?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CanItRainFrogs/cldwh/post.htm#805667</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:51:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:805667</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CanItRainFrogs/cldwh/post.htm#805667</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-805667.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>This occurrance is not so rare as you think. It happens occasionally in the US and happened today where I live in Japan.</description></item><item><title>Re: Can it rain frogs?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CanItRainFrogs/cldwh/post.htm#554767</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:20:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:554767</guid><dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CanItRainFrogs/cldwh/post.htm#554767</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-554767.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>In AmEng we often say that it rains &amp;#39;cats and dogs&amp;#39;. I was caught in one such storm a month ago and stepped in a poodle.</description></item><item><title>Re: Can it rain frogs?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CanItRainFrogs/cldwh/post.htm#554682</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 10:20:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:554682</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CanItRainFrogs/cldwh/post.htm#554682</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-554682.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Crosses? What type of crosses?</description></item><item><title>Re: Can it rain frogs?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CanItRainFrogs/cldwh/post.htm#222125</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:20:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:222125</guid><dc:creator>Old Eladio</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CanItRainFrogs/cldwh/post.htm#222125</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-222125.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Thanks a lot, Mister Micawber. 
 fish instead of honors. I don't know how this word went there! 
 Eladio</description></item><item><title>Re: Can it rain frogs?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CanItRainFrogs/cldwh/post.htm#222103</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:20:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:222103</guid><dc:creator>Mister Micawber</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CanItRainFrogs/cldwh/post.htm#222103</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-222103.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>You can minimize the presence of dates (which are not really very important here) by writing them as I have. I have also suggested other changes:  Can it rain frogs?


 The strong whirls of wind and air currents produced by
rain clouds can carry endless and extremely dissimilar
objects. These objects are caught up by the cloud until they precipitate
to earth at a distance from where they were lifted, to the astonishment of witnesses to this show. Numerous such cases have been reported in noted scientific journals like the Monthly Weather
Review , Nature and Scientific American . 

 These reports tell us not only of frog rains, but also rains of
toads, honors  , spiders, snails, mussels, scarabs, wingless ants, and worms. Even...</description></item><item><title>Can it rain frogs?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CanItRainFrogs/cldwh/post.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:20:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:222095</guid><dc:creator>Old Eladio</dc:creator><slash:comments>5</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CanItRainFrogs/cldwh/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-222095.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Dear friends from EnglishForums. I have translated a curious (to me at least) text from Spanish into English and I would need that you help me in correcting it, please. I don’t know if the length is the proper one for this kind of solicitude and I will understand if you feel reluctant to correct the text. 
 Anyway, thank you in advance,  
 Eladio 
  Can it rain frogs?  
  The strong whirls of wind and some air currents produced by rain clouds can carry themselves endless and the most dissimilar objects. These objects are caught by the cloud until they precipitate to earth at certain distance from where they were lifted, that can cause the astonishment of the witnesses of the show. There is numerous of these cases reported in noted...</description></item></channel></rss>