Originally posted by ViLo Out of the blue!
Is "The Blue" a misterious place where all the surprises come from?
the idea is that the "blue" (ie the open sky) is a clear area (ie there isn't cloud cover, fog, etc) and you *should* be able to see it coming...that's what makes is surpising/shocking "Holy Crap! It just materialized!" as opposed to "oh, there was this big cloud that I couldn't see {censored} through, so, yeah, it snuck up on me under cover" the appearance itself may be unexpected, but the mechanism of the surprise isn't shocking speaking of shocking -- alternatively and related (and probably originally) the "BOLT out of the blue" -- well, that's lightning coming out of nowhere...no clouds...just clear sky