Until, that is, another shock, a bolt of lightening perhaps, sends them off in another direction.
But let's say an amazing device -- the Usain Bolt of devices -- were to hit the market.
ENGADGET: This is the Modem World: Curiosity Killed the Fanboy
Ms. Lerner's apology on Friday was unexpected but we're doubtful that it came as a sudden bolt of conscience.
Of course, the Usain Bolt of dugout storm-outs is Royals legend George Brett.
It came on so fast it was was like a bolt of lightning.
BBC: How heart patients can help themselves - just like that
The odds of having to duck away from a bolt of lightning in the land of Disney's Magic Kingdom, Orlando, Fla.
When 21-year-old Usain Bolt of Jamaica won gold in the 100 meters on Saturday in world record time, he didn't even look winded.
It has been estimated that a single bolt of lightning has enough electrical energy to power the city of Los Angeles for a day.
Then came the lightning bolt of inspiration that set his life on a course of optimism and astonishing productivity for the next 22 years.
Sylvester Pocius, known as Sly, another goateed DynCorp contractor, had been grazed on the neck by a bullet that ricocheted off the bolt of his gun.
Seismologist Bruce Bolt of the University of California, Berkeley, told radio station KCBS that the Bolinas area is where the 1906 earthquake began, but he found no particular significance in that.
To say the idea for "Struck By Lightning" hit me like a bolt of lightning would be an incredibly convenient way to start this piece but also the most accurate comparison I could make.
But the 30-year-old entrepreneur from San Francisco had a lucky bolt of inspiration after trying his hand at selling products and services ranging from college admissions essay coaching to antiques and furniture on the web.
FORBES: He Built Multi-Million Dollar Revenues By Beating Google
The lighter examples from Oregon and Burgundy were a touch too delicate for the steak, but the velvety-textured 2010 Arista Ferrington Vineyard Pinot Noir, from California's cool Anderson Valley, overperformed, with a bright bolt of acidity balancing all its rich, ripe fruit.
WSJ: Wine and Food: Pairing Without Overthinking | On Wine by Lettie Teague
Marjorie was no longer as adept as she had been when she was younger and able to unroll a bolt of cloth and see every seam and dart, every buttonhole and facing, when she could tell, even before putting one pin into the cloth, how it would all fall together.
On the high point of the first, Edburton Hill, are the earthworks of a motte-and-bailey castle, which in spring and early summer are a knee-high wildflower meadow: agrimony, wild mignonette, red clover, yellow rattle, marjoram, scabious, knapweed and the odd tall bolt of fireweed, through all of which wander string-like stems of bindweed.
Mr Howarth said the plant had been recruiting "within the last 12 months, so it's a bit of a bolt out of the blue".
Maybe the concept came to you in a flash, the proverbial bolt out of the blue.
Lisburn councillor Stephen Martin said the news had "come as a bolt out of the blue".
Redundant worker Lanza Martineta said the news he was losing his job came as a "bolt out of the blue".
On a more serious note, Bolt spoke of what he believes is the growing reputation of athletics for dealing with drugs cheats.
The plan to close a Merseyside aircraft parts factory has come as "a bolt out of the blue", according to a local MP.
"It hit me like a bolt out of the blue, " he recalls: A franchise system would be a way to maintain standards and improve the supply chain.
They added that the proposals, which they described as "a bolt out of the blue", would hurt small businesses and employee share-ownership schemes, as well as discouraging risk-taking by venture capital firms vital to economic growth.
Cumbes, who also sits on the executive committee of the ECB, refuted suggestions from Modi that the ECB had been warned that the tournament might have an early start, calling it a "bolt out of the blue", though he did admit "our system is cluttered to death with fixtures".
Following golds in the 100m, 200m and 4x100 relay at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Gay has been overshadowed by the emergence of Bolt and admitted he had been "running on one leg" during the latter stages of the 2009 season.
Finals provide history, but heats offer the entertaining sight of Bolt regulating his Bolt-ness.
应用推荐