Word: sprinklers
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...breaks for a hysterically grimy guitar solo that stops cold at the last verse, like a guard dog at an electric fence; nothing on Gimme Fiction is allowed to get in the way of melody. There are a few subtle effects--a tape loop ticking away like a lawn sprinkler on the ecstatic My Mathematical Mind, some buried studio chatter elsewhere--but they help give the album the artful artlessness of an untucked shirt...
...Texas. Dry lakes have been known to catch fire here. So precious is water that many people loathe lawns; others ostentatiously show their wealth by the look of their grassy places (still others, sensitive to criticism, sneakily install root-system watering devices, eliminating the telltale arc of an aboveground sprinkler). In any event, there were three feet of water standing in some streets of Midland and Odessa the day before the game...
...Water sits in the sprinkler system for years,” Selsby explained. “It’s good that it’s there, but over the years it gets old and stinky...
According to Bicknell, water was shut down quickly so that only residual water came out of the sprinkler, and damage was limited to ceiling tiles...
According to Bicknell, the alarm first went off when the ball hit the sprinkler, and the second alarm went off automatically due to the increase in the amount of water coming through the sprinkler system...