Riddle Me This:

[snarkyman]

From David Mankins:

Q: You are sitting behind the wheel in a car keeping a constant speed, on your left side there is an abyss.

On your right side you have a fire engine and it keeps the same speed as you.

In front of you runs a pig, larger than your car.

A helicopter is following you, at ground level.

Both the helicopter and the pig are keeping the same speed as you.

What will you need to do to be able to stop?


A: Get out of the car, step down from the merry-go-round and leave your seat to someone younger. A merry-go-round is primarily for small children.

Comments

[actual-size.livejournal.com]

I LOVE that icon.

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[number42.livejournal.com]

I second that...

Where did you get that? I must possess it...

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[snarkyman.livejournal.com]

Something Awful

04.12.2002: Josh "Livestock" Boruff - Photoshop Phriday: Muppet Movies:
http://www.somethingawful.com/features/muppetmovies/

Unfortunately, they've all been removed under legal threat from Henson copyright owner.

I thought parody was protected "Fair Use" under the first amendment.

Bert is Evil! In German - Google translates it OK, though.
http://www.beepworld.de/members/xxsonique28/bertistboese.htm

Another Bert is Evil
http://ibutronic.freepage.de/German/bert.html

Bert is Bad - The Pictures
http://ibutronic.freepage.de/German/evidence.html

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[eirehound.livejournal.com]

I thought parody was protected "Fair Use" under the first amendment.

And if you sit in a public park and smoke sage through an otherwise virgin bong, that's perfectly legal behavior. Try it and see how fast you'll have bracelets on your wrists and ink on your fingers.

There are lots of things that you can get away with, that are clearly legal rights, that any court will eventually vindicate you over.

You're in the right. But then somebody with deep pockets (money <==> power) threatens you with a lawsuit and you look into the future and see a long legal war of attrition with lots and lots of billable hours at $100/hour or more to each of one or more attorneys ... and then you look at your own bank account balance ... Well, there's really only one choice, isn't there? Submit or be ground out.

The threat of a lawsuit, whether or not the person threatening has a legal leg to stand on, has a power all its own. Threatening or even filing a lawsuit you can't possibly win is sometimes a useful strategy - this is well known.

[sapphorlando.livejournal.com]

Boy, that brought back memories of my old Boston commute..

[juuro.livejournal.com]

Umm... The carousels that I can recall right now have all been oriented in the counterclockwise direction. I can't picture an abyss in the centre of the thing.

Must be a special American tradition, clockwise carousel.

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[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

Every carousel I can recall seeing, most of them in North America, turns widdershins (anti-clockwise), as well. My first though on reading the post was to wonder what the heck the fire-truck was doing in the right lane. It should have been on the left!