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BlackSpinner · Post by **BlackSpinner** » Wed May 18, 2011 2:54 pm

We are not star fish but people I know eat oysters alive. Each specie lives by eating something/somebody else.
I help others that I see as part of my pack (humans). It makes the pack stronger. Lone wolves may be successful hunters but they don't reproduce and they don't strengthen the pack. With us humans information storage and retrieval are very important so helping people stay alive and functioning, no mater what use you may think they have, is crucial.

idamtnboy · Post by **idamtnboy** » Wed May 18, 2011 3:20 pm

Hmmmm, when I read NotMuffy's expanded version of the legend I had this vision of a guy with one cheek sticking way out from the pressure of the tongue pushing on it!!

Based on searches throughout the undeniably dependable and accurate troves on pages in the WWW, as presented to me by the big G, my conclusion is the expansion of the legend comes directly from the mind and keyboard of NM!

NotMuffy · Post by **NotMuffy** » Wed May 18, 2011 4:02 pm

idamtnboy wrote:Hmmmm, when I read NotMuffy's expanded version of the legend I had this vision of a guy with one cheek sticking way out from the pressure of the tongue pushing on it!!

Based on searches throughout the undeniably dependable and accurate troves on pages in the WWW, as presented to me by the big G, my conclusion is the expansion of the legend comes directly from the mind and keyboard of NM!

Well he could have said that!!

However, since Loren Eiseley was a Nebraska boy, perhaps he never actually ran into a starfish, so wouldn't know what an obnoxious thing it really is (i.e., a starfish is to oyster beds what a boll weevil is to cotton).

NotMuffy · Post by **NotMuffy** » Wed May 18, 2011 4:04 pm

Hoo-boy. Now I suppose I'll have to explain what a "boll weevil" is...

JohnBFisher · Post by **JohnBFisher** » Thu May 19, 2011 1:26 am

idamtnboy wrote:... when I read NotMuffy's expanded version of the legend I had this vision of a guy with one cheek sticking way out from the pressure of the tongue pushing on it!! ...

What? NotMuffy yanking our chain? No way! He's as serious as the day it long .... NOT!

Yup. I knew NotMuffy was just calling us a bunch of buggers ... er ... "boll weevils" ....

And another way some folks help brighten the world is with some laughter. Thank you NotMuffy for poking fun at the story. Sometimes reality can make a story quite ironic.

NotMuffy · Post by **NotMuffy** » Thu May 19, 2011 3:36 am

JohnBFisher wrote:I knew NotMuffy was just calling us a bunch of buggers ... er ... "boll weevils" ....

And yet, despite having basically the same devastating effect on an American livelihood, the starfish is "cute" and "popular", yet the boll weevil is... well, a "boll weevil".

Now why is that?

NotMuffy · Post by **NotMuffy** » Thu May 19, 2011 3:39 am

On the other hand, the starfish is simply doing what it thinks is right.

NotMuffy · Post by **NotMuffy** » Thu May 19, 2011 3:42 am

NotMuffy wrote:On the other hand, the starfish is simply doing what it thinks is right.

On the other, other hand (back to the original hand), since a starfish doesn't have a brain, technically that would be incorrect.

OutaSync · Post by **OutaSync** » Thu May 19, 2011 7:30 am

They practically worship the boll weevil in Enterprise, Alabama, with a huge monument in the center of town. If the boll weevils had not destroyed their crops of cotton, they never would have discovered how lucrative peanuts are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boll_Weevil_Monument

JohnBFisher · Post by **JohnBFisher** » Thu May 19, 2011 7:38 am

I'm starting to worry about NotMuffy. I counted at least three hands on that baked goods. I would say he should quit while he's a head, but he does not seem to have made it that far!

idamtnboy · Post by **idamtnboy** » Thu May 19, 2011 8:32 am

NotMuffy wrote:
JohnBFisher wrote:I knew NotMuffy was just calling us a bunch of buggers ... er ... "boll weevils" ....
And yet, despite having basically the same devastating effect on an American livelihood, the starfish is "cute" and "popular", yet the boll weevil is... well, a "boll weevil".

Now why is that?

On the other hand we have bats, which few people love and many are frightened of. But, they consume millions of mosquitoes! We would not be able to define good if bad didn't exist!

NotMuffy · Post by **NotMuffy** » Thu May 19, 2011 5:17 pm

idamtnboy wrote:
NotMuffy wrote:
JohnBFisher wrote:I knew NotMuffy was just calling us a bunch of buggers ... er ... "boll weevils" ....
And yet, despite having basically the same devastating effect on an American livelihood, the starfish is "cute" and "popular", yet the boll weevil is... well, a "boll weevil".

Now why is that?
On the other hand we have bats, which few people love and many are frightened of. But, they consume millions of mosquitoes! We would not be able to define good if bad didn't exist!

That reminds me of another story:

The Mosquito Legend

As the old man walked on the beach at dawn, he noticed a young man ahead of him picking up mosquitoes and flinging them into the sea. Finally catching up with the youth, he asked him why he was doing this. The answer was that the stranded mosquitoes would die if left in the morning sun. "But the beach goes on for miles, and there are millions of mosquitoes," countered the man. "How can your effort make any difference?"

The young man looked at the mosquito in his hand and then threw it safely into the waves.

"It makes a difference to this one," he said.

"I think you're about 2 tacos short of a combination plate," replied the old man.

idamtnboy · Post by **idamtnboy** » Thu May 19, 2011 11:28 pm

NotMuffy wrote:That reminds me of another story:

The Mosquito Legend

As the old man walked on the beach at dawn, he noticed a young man ahead of him picking up mosquitoes and flinging them into the sea. Finally catching up with the youth, he asked him why he was doing this. The answer was that the stranded mosquitoes would die if left in the morning sun. "But the beach goes on for miles, and there are millions of mosquitoes," countered the man. "How can your effort make any difference?"

The young man looked at the mosquito in his hand and then threw it safely into the waves.

"It makes a difference to this one," he said.

"I think you're about 2 tacos short of a combination plate," replied the old man.

You're crazy, man!! That one makes me really

Jade · Post by **Jade** » Fri May 20, 2011 3:27 am

Well, I guess according to that expansion, the starfish still have us humans beat in the Interstellar League of Most Humane Organism.

BTW, nice context switcheroo...

And who's Charles Whitman?

BlackSpinner · Post by **BlackSpinner** » Fri May 20, 2011 6:44 pm

Jade wrote: And who's Charles Whitman?

I think he wrote poetry ... or maybe that was Walt?

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