2796 The plebeian "We Are..." and other stuff

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Why is the gift of intelligence so often given to people too stupid to know what to do with it?
-- Lev Grossman, Time, 3/15/04 --

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Celebrities have remade "We Are the World" to benefit Haiti. That version is easy to find on YouTube. But, a bunch of less well-known people have also done it. Some of these people are pro or semi-pro, some are pure amateur. I think they all have made "cover" videos on YouTube, that's what they have in common, and that's how they got invited to participate. They recorded separately, and then it was edited together. It's good. Hell, it's great!

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hhX0KkQBW4] The full description is at the link, with info on contributing to Haiti.

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Remember when we were small, and the edges of roofs had icicles? Big thick long ones? And parents always warned you not to walk under them 'cause they could fall and impale you? And every winter, somewhere in the country, someone was killed on the street by icicles falling from a high building? Yeah. Howcum we never see icicles any more? Not even on things like sheds and barns that don't have guttering. What happened to icicles?

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Some sports have weight classes. They figure a 150 lb. person shouldn't have to wrestle with a 250 lb person and so on. Weight can be too much of an advantage.

So why don't they have classes for leg length in speed skating, running, and so on, where long legs have a definite advantage over short?

You have some control over your weight, but none over your limb length. This is unfair!

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In all the interviews and stories I've heard and read about runaway Toyotas, I have yet to hear anyone mention slamming the thing into neutral so you can pull over. I haven't heard anyone say they tried it and it didn't work, or trying it and it did work. Nothing.

Why not?

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I've mentioned the town near here named "Milan", like the city in Italy. But here it's pronounced "MY lun". Well, I found another. It's a village named "Chili". The locals pronounce it "Chai lye". Do they do that on purpose, so they can laugh at visitors?

Snork.
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