. . . And the sun is going to fry us all |
by Gina Dalfonzo |
If the tigers don't get us first.
Note to LeeQuod: It's not personal, I swear. Roberto and CLH just keep finding these things and sending them out.
The good news is, I'm working on some Fun Friday ideas, so at least we can all go out cheerfully.
Don't worry about it, G. I always liked it when Walter Martin (the original Bible Answer Man) pointed out that the rate of death has been unchanged for millenia; it's still one per person.
So whether it's an asteroid or runaway tigers or Sol or one too many Big Macs, we all end up like poor Yorick, alas. And Roberto and CLH (do you really call her by her initials?) are simply reminding us of this truth, via their own mildly morbid fascinations. WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! ...Eventually, anyway.
The more relevant question is "But after that, what?"
(A Fun Friday two-fer could be to collect all the ways Americans used in the 1950s to avoid nuclear attacks: hiding under the school desk, building a bomb shelter in the backyard, etc. Or, calculate the tax revenues required to build a Dyson sphere, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere , remembering to adjust for inflation. "Doomsday Follies", what fun!)
Posted by: LeeQuod | October 22, 2008 at 04:27 PM
We don't call her that in person, but sometimes she prefers it as an online alias. (Reminds me of when I started reading C. S. Lewis and wondered if his friends all called him "C. S." It sounded so awkward. "Jack" was a much better choice.)
Your school desk mention reminds me of a Dave Barry remark about how, if school desks were so effective against nuclear attack, we should have just constructed a giant one to cover the entire country. Wish I could find the column online. Now there would be a Fun Friday treat.
Posted by: Gina Dalfonzo | October 22, 2008 at 04:37 PM
"Dyson Sphere. . .adjust for inflation" groan!
Posted by: labrialumn | October 22, 2008 at 07:31 PM
..and we'll all go together, when we go
All suffused with an incandescent glow
No one will have the endurance
To collect on his insurance
Lloyd's of London will be loaded when they go...
- Tom Lehrer
Yeah, okay, okay, sorry to burst your bubble.
Back to the point:
"We were trying to catch the tiger perched on a tree of our village with tranquilizer shots," said the 47-year-old villager. "But it flung on me after falling on a net and bit my loins."
Ouch. Well, maybe the willingness-to-attempt-to-tranquilize-large-dangerous-felines gene is going to die out of the pool...
Posted by: | October 22, 2008 at 09:20 PM
Cat, Meow, Cath, Catherina, Lynsey, Hey You -- also all work. ... Do people call you LeeQuod? ( : I couldn't help it.
Posted by: CLH | October 22, 2008 at 09:41 PM
(Oh, and I don't have a 'morbid fascination' with how we're going to die -- with you, LQ, more interested in the thereafter... and the here and now actually. Rather, I just find it amusing what else is blamed on climate change: "The tigers are coming!" Next, "Long-lasting Lipsticks No Longer Last Long Due to Rising Temperatures.")
Posted by: CLH | October 22, 2008 at 09:46 PM
"Well, maybe the willingness-to-attempt-to-tranquilize-large-dangerous-felines gene is going to die out of the pool..."
Hey, you're right. I think we just found the next Darwin Award winner!
Posted by: Gina Dalfonzo | October 22, 2008 at 10:00 PM
I was going to suggest "Loins in the News" as a Fun Friday topic (this guy, Britney Spears, ...) but figured first, it would push the envelope of decency too far, and second, putting "loins" next to "tigers" would look like a typo.
But a Tom Lehrer retrospective would be fun on a Friday. (Might want to skip "Vatican Rag", though, to be polite to DtS, Roberto and others.)
And, Cat (Does that explain your interest in the tiger story?), I'm always relieved to be referred to by LeeQuod online, rather than by something derogatory. When I'm offline they call me "Bruce Robertson". ;-)
Posted by: LeeQuod | October 23, 2008 at 02:59 AM
See this solid documentary for exposing the lies about Global Warming:
http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-4123082535546754758
This needs wide circulation
Posted by: Michael Snoe | October 23, 2008 at 02:19 PM
Bruce Robertson -- sounds like the name of a superhero's alter-ego.
Posted by: CLH | October 24, 2008 at 04:51 PM