#257 Specious
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You gotta be careful of anything that is specious. For a couple of reasons. First of all, looks can be deceiving. Think about it…the delicious-looking red apple that Snow White chomped into and then found herself in a dead sleep. The apple looked great, but it wasn’t. Ditto with Hansel and Gretel and the gingerbread house. That ol’ witch might have looked like Renee Walcott a nice, old grandma, but she had deadly intentions. You gotta remember, looks can be deceiving.
Then there’s that whole premise that some that looks too good to be true usually is. I give you Pamela Anderson’s bust line as an example. It looks specious And it’s all fake. Well, most of it, at least. I imagine that somewhere deep under all that silicone there is the real thing. Somewhere.
Maybe.
And sometimes something that looks really good can get you in deep shit trouble. For that, I will give you the example of the trigger fish. Very few animals mate for life. However, the trigger fish is one of the few that do (along with penguins and swans and me, because Jordan would kill me if I ever so much as thought about…) If you google trigger fish, you’re going to find that they’re not the most attractive species. And in the fish kingdom, the male fish gets what good looks God is giving out. So the female trigger fish is a few Mary Kay products short of a photo shoot, if you get my drift.
However, she is a passively territorial mate. If the male trigger fish is caught so much as ogling another, more specious female fish, his mate kills him.
And then eats him.
Sushi, anyone?
Woody Hoyt
Crossing Jordan
288 Words
You gotta be careful of anything that is specious. For a couple of reasons. First of all, looks can be deceiving. Think about it…the delicious-looking red apple that Snow White chomped into and then found herself in a dead sleep. The apple looked great, but it wasn’t. Ditto with Hansel and Gretel and the gingerbread house. That ol’ witch might have looked like Renee Walcott a nice, old grandma, but she had deadly intentions. You gotta remember, looks can be deceiving.
Then there’s that whole premise that some that looks too good to be true usually is. I give you Pamela Anderson’s bust line as an example. It looks specious And it’s all fake. Well, most of it, at least. I imagine that somewhere deep under all that silicone there is the real thing. Somewhere.
Maybe.
And sometimes something that looks really good can get you in deep shit trouble. For that, I will give you the example of the trigger fish. Very few animals mate for life. However, the trigger fish is one of the few that do (along with penguins and swans and me, because Jordan would kill me if I ever so much as thought about…) If you google trigger fish, you’re going to find that they’re not the most attractive species. And in the fish kingdom, the male fish gets what good looks God is giving out. So the female trigger fish is a few Mary Kay products short of a photo shoot, if you get my drift.
However, she is a passively territorial mate. If the male trigger fish is caught so much as ogling another, more specious female fish, his mate kills him.
And then eats him.
Sushi, anyone?
Woody Hoyt
Crossing Jordan
288 Words