"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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Then if it desn't work, you get out the dowsing rods. This gives you
time to think, and it also makes the awed audience shut up for a bit,
so you can actually hear the water.

They do that sort of stuff around 02:00 here.
It was about then that they were poking sticks down stopcock holes last time
I saw them.

If I saw a lunatic dowsing at that time of night I would phone for an
ambulance to collect them.