Post by phinehas on Mar 16, 2007 18:30:21 GMT -5
www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070316162625.mah5dgpi&show_article=1
#1 I wonder if going to school had anything to do with it's return? LOL
#2 This is one thing that interests me and there should be a scientific study to determine how a story like this makes it's way into the press and into my thread and perhaps hundreds of other threads by other people.
For example...Last Saturday I was at the park with my wife and kids...I went to follow my daughter down a slide, which his structured like a long box. I pulled up and put my legs in...the problem was that I didn't straighten one of my legs fast enough and guess what, my leg got jammed in this slide. The length of my leg, from my knee to my foot was slightly bigger than the dimensions of this "box" shaped slide. I know it was rather funny...but for about 5 seconds the thought crossed my mind that I may require assistance from the fire department to get my leg un-jammed without doing damage to my leg...luckily, I am smarter than a monkey( see story below) and just pulled my foot with my hand toward the center angle of the slide. Point being, if the fire department was called to assist me in my embarrassing predicament....would it have made the news in Tuscaloosa, become available on an international level and be posted about on an Internet forum?
Monkey story - Does anybody remember watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom narrated by Marlin Perkins? I loved that show (http://www.wildkingdom.com/nostalgia/).....anyway, there was a show that I still remember where one of the guys on the show, put a salt chunk in a hole in a tree to do an experiment with the monkeys in the area. The monkey found the salt, stuck it's hand in the hole, grabbed the salt chunk but because the monkey's hand barely fit into the hole, it's "fist" could not pull out of the tree. What did the monkey do? It wouldn't let go of the salt chunk and it wouldn't stop trying to pull it's fist out either. This went on for hours....until finally the monkey let it go. Good thing we are smarter than monkeys.
#1 I wonder if going to school had anything to do with it's return? LOL
#2 This is one thing that interests me and there should be a scientific study to determine how a story like this makes it's way into the press and into my thread and perhaps hundreds of other threads by other people.
For example...Last Saturday I was at the park with my wife and kids...I went to follow my daughter down a slide, which his structured like a long box. I pulled up and put my legs in...the problem was that I didn't straighten one of my legs fast enough and guess what, my leg got jammed in this slide. The length of my leg, from my knee to my foot was slightly bigger than the dimensions of this "box" shaped slide. I know it was rather funny...but for about 5 seconds the thought crossed my mind that I may require assistance from the fire department to get my leg un-jammed without doing damage to my leg...luckily, I am smarter than a monkey( see story below) and just pulled my foot with my hand toward the center angle of the slide. Point being, if the fire department was called to assist me in my embarrassing predicament....would it have made the news in Tuscaloosa, become available on an international level and be posted about on an Internet forum?
Monkey story - Does anybody remember watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom narrated by Marlin Perkins? I loved that show (http://www.wildkingdom.com/nostalgia/).....anyway, there was a show that I still remember where one of the guys on the show, put a salt chunk in a hole in a tree to do an experiment with the monkeys in the area. The monkey found the salt, stuck it's hand in the hole, grabbed the salt chunk but because the monkey's hand barely fit into the hole, it's "fist" could not pull out of the tree. What did the monkey do? It wouldn't let go of the salt chunk and it wouldn't stop trying to pull it's fist out either. This went on for hours....until finally the monkey let it go. Good thing we are smarter than monkeys.