In which movie did this happen for the first time?

[LilCerberus]

I saw something on PBS once about the Dead Sea. At some point, some geologist was talking about how they found some ancient ruins, and how theirs a bunch of sulfur & obnoxious fumes in that area, and he speculated that the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah could've been caused by lightning ignited the sulfur, which in turn set off the obnoxious fumes causing a big explosion that sent a bunch of salt & sulfur into the sky, which in turn came raining down on Sodom & Gomorrah, and that one of the giant slabs of salt may have landed on Lot's wife, thus making it scientificly feesable to reasonably assume that she was killed by aliens playing with matches.

In the meantime, I believe that their really is beer in Heaven, but I can wait.

[Shadowphile]

The old boy killed her.  It's not difficult to kill in front of witnesses and get away with it.  After all, Quincy hadn't been born and CSI was a long way off.....

The Lot Code.... heh

I'll read it but I'll take anything I find inside it with a grain of salt....

[peter johnson]

Ohhh!  Crafty . . . crafty . . .
Well, do you suppose the daughters were in on it, then?  I mean, did they have motive?
It would have been very difficult to stage, but I suppose not out of the realm of possibility --
Personally, I think it's a rumour spread by the Moabites and the Ammonites to justify their origins.
Lot's wife actually went on to run gambling houses in Caanan.  She faked her death to avoid publicity.
peter johnson/denny crane

[Shadowphile]

Well, according to the Bible, the daughters got Lot drunk so they could seduce him.  Somehow, I just can't see that happening.  I think Lot blamed them to make himself feel like less of a pervert.

[peter johnson]

Except the daughters have the narrative control at that point in the story --
Seriously, at that point it's a tribal origins story that "explains" the origins of the tribes of Moab and Ammon -- a point not even Orthodox Jews are that concerned with these days . . . well, possibly it still matters to the Mormons . . .
Yeah, Lot was a bastard -- he should've stuck with the numbers racket & not drifted off into hospitality.  The sex with daughters thing is a fair cop, but I don't think we can stick the death of his wife on him --
I remember when he used to run this nice little bistro south of San Diego -- best seafood north of Baja . . .
peter johnson/denny crane

[Shadowphile]

Didn't he have a brother in Egypt who sold livestock?  Called his business Camelot?

[peter johnson]

That's the guy!
Had to quit the Camel racket -- got into discount plagues for a bit, but nothing really stuck for him --
peter johnson/denny crane

[LilCerberus]

peter johnson Wrote:
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> That's the guy!
> Had to quit the Camel racket -- got into discount
> plagues for a bit, but nothing really stuck for
> him --
> peter johnson/denny crane


Actually, that was me, except I wasn't a livestock salesman at Camelot, I was a Product Demonstrater for a jewely pollish called Sparkle It, and I'm not actually his brother, but rather his father-in-law's stepson, which I guess makes us kinda' like brothers, but I've only met him twice.
I hope this clears things up!

[Shadowphile]

Clear as mud.  Gotta hate those cut rate plagues.  They never give full value.  Bought the Black Plague for 30% of the regular price but all I ended up with was a Blue Funk....