Heron Speaks, from Cannibal, told of man-made environmental calamity from the perspective of the birds; the second album's Panelbeater lambasted earnest Britpop strivers ("Paying your dues straight up your nose / Is this enough? / Lounging in the sun, singing the blues / Is this enough? / You're a panel beater, sick of trying") over a knowingly grungified, Beatles-esque riff.
Despite the extensive and widespread damage, only one death was reported from the entire severe weather outbreak, and this was due to straight-line winds, not a tornado.
Other fatalities due to straight-line winds occurred in McComb, Mississippi early on April 26 and also in Moody, Alabama, Vestavia Hills, Alabama, and Franklin, Tennessee early on April 27 from the squall line with embedded tornadoes.
Sunderland opened its only gay bar in January; this month it had to go straight due to lack of interest.
"In last Tuesday's League Two match against Plymouth, Leyton Orient went down to 10 men due to a straight red for Robbie Weir after 21 seconds," begins Steve Coleman.
By 4am it was raining pretty hard and I could hardly see straight due to the drink and the fatigue and we ended up bumbling our way into Charlotte Square, where the book festival was fully tented and booted.
On landing at Sydney he was due to go straight to the airport media centre to undergo a grilling from a press that gets no splinters in its backside from sitting on the fence.
Robbie Savage, who was due to dash straight to a BBC microphone to co-host a phone-in after the match, attracted a booking of a different kind after a two-footed challenge on Federico Bessone.
Finally, while free standing carbon chains were observed to be straight due to tensile loading, a carbon chain inside the walls of a carbon nanotube showed high flexibility.
