# can a brassiere conduct lightning?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-brassiere-conduct-lightning/4302>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 27, 1999, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-brassiere-conduct-lightning/4302 "1999-10-27T16:51:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 1999, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-brassiere-conduct-lightning/4302/21 "1999-10-28T13:23:00Z")

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:::;SPLORT:::::::::::::::::

Orangecakes…you are baaad.

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 1999, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-brassiere-conduct-lightning/4302/22 "1999-10-28T23:38:00Z")

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orangecakes, you are mean. You **promised** not to tell. ☹  
Peace,  
mangeorge

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**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 1999, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-brassiere-conduct-lightning/4302/23 "1999-10-29T00:42:00Z")

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AuraSeer, your logic and erudition aside, I think all women, purely for their own safety, of course, should immediately remove their bras and never wear them again.

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**Author:** ![AuraSeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AuraSeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuraSeer)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 1999, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-brassiere-conduct-lightning/4302/24 "1999-10-29T05:17:00Z")

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**douglips** , that was what I was intimating at. If I’d just said that wearing metal didn’t matter in a thunderstorm, and left it at that, somebody would have brought up the idea of a magic tinfoil suit.

**Peyote Coyote** : Hey, what happened to my logic and erudition? You put them back where they belong _this instant!_😉

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Laugh hard; it’s a long way to the bank.

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