bryang...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, January 21, 2022 at 7:29:25 AM UTC-6,
jwk...@bjc.org wrote:
> > Dress in layers!
> >
> It would be a good day for you to die from hypothermia.
> >
Lol... you are the Road Runner to John's Wile E. Coyote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote_and_the_Road_Runner
"Wile E. Coyote often obtains various complex and ludicrous devices from a
mail-order company, the fictitious Acme Corporation, which he hopes will
help him catch the Road Runner. The devices invariably fail in improbable
and spectacular fashion.
On other occasions, the coyote dons an exquisite Acme costume or propulsion
device that briefly allows him to catch up to the Road Runner, but ultimately always
results in him losing track of his proximity to large cliffs or walls, and while the
Road Runner darts around an extremely sharp turn near a cliff, defying physics,
the coyote succumbs to physics and will rocket right over the edge and plummet
spectacularly to the ground.
"The Coyote could stop anytime — if he were not a fanatic. (Repeat: ‘A fanatic
is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.’ — George Santayana)."
"The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures."
One running gag involves the coyote trying (in vain) to shield himself with a little
parasol against a great falling boulder that is about to crush him.
Another running gag involves the coyote falling from a high cliff. After he goes
over the edge, the rest of the scene, shot from a bird's-eye view, shows him
falling into a canyon so deep, that his figure is eventually lost to sight. This
is followed, a second or two later, by the rising of a dust cloud from the
canyon floor as the coyote hits..."
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GM