Comments | orwellian_trash: If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants

orwellian_trash

If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants

Feb 16, 2010 00:07

When I was young, too young yet to have worked out how the physical world worked and the claims of adults were still unquestionably true, I believed a strange thing ( Read more... )

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shade_o_matic February 16 2010, 00:29:00 UTC

GO CROMWELL GO!!!

orwellian_trash February 16 2010, 00:38:10 UTC

DON'T UPSET THE RHYTHM, NO!

tired_spirit February 16 2010, 00:56:30 UTC

Now I've got the theme from the Muskahounds in my head...

orwellian_trash February 16 2010, 01:08:37 UTC

I was thinking more Noisettes, but okay.

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hazeltea February 16 2010, 01:07:36 UTC

That is the single most endearing thing I have heard in a very long time, and it does make complete sense!

orwellian_trash February 16 2010, 01:38:03 UTC

I think it came from not having any siblings to peer-review these theories.

hazeltea February 16 2010, 01:52:36 UTC

There might be something to that. I'm the youngest of four, but there's a twelve year space between myself and the next eldest. I used to think that all of the fictional food mascots were part of a food counsel that met to decided what everyone in the world would eat. Betty Crocker was in charge because she wrote all the cookbooks. Aunt Jemima was in charge of breakfast foods. She was married to Uncle Ben because he was the only Uncle food mascot and he was the first person to grow rice. I don't think I ever told anyone my theory.

orwellian_trash February 16 2010, 01:55:04 UTC

This is a brilliant theory.

zero_bug February 16 2010, 01:18:36 UTC

I like your version of history better.

A similar story: My father is a fisherman. I knew he made money from fish. So, being very young and stupid, I used to believe he'd cut fish open and find money inside of them.

MMMM. FISH MONEY.

orwellian_trash February 16 2010, 01:35:37 UTC

Delicious fish money. Why not? Clams make pearls, fish make cash. Makes sense.

nerdy_leo February 16 2010, 02:54:50 UTC

This is amazing and hilarious! Yea verily, I did LOL, and it was glorious.

Srsly...I need you teaching my history classes.

compost75 February 16 2010, 05:44:18 UTC

teaching history *nods*
in period costume *nodnod*

The world would stop spinning.

meggypeggy1 February 16 2010, 06:15:44 UTC

I was very disappointed when I saw posters for a 'Monster Fair', went to it, and there were no monsters at all. I was in my late twenties.

orwellian_trash February 16 2010, 14:53:25 UTC

What was there at a Monster Fair, then? Monster Trucks?

meggypeggy1 February 16 2010, 15:10:18 UTC

Not even that. They just meant big.

orwellian_trash February 16 2010, 15:14:23 UTC

What a huge rip off.