Lileks writes about skipping today. I don't skip very often; actually, I haven't skipped in a while. (I think I'll try it when I go walk the dog today. I'm sure it will freak him out.) Whenever I do skip, I'm always amazed at the ground I cover for what seems like a surprisingly small energy output. Skipping is all about inertia. Why isn't skipping a socially acceptable way of getting around?
Anyway, my gift to you all today is the mental picture of an fat 44 year old skipping while walking his dog.
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The image is pleasing indeed.
On a slight tangent, skipping with a rope is unusual in that it unites two very different classes of humanity: small girls, and heavyweight boxers.
Well, I ran the experiment. The energy efficiency was everything I remembered. The dog, to his credit, took it in stride. What I forgot was how it jostles the innards and upsets the humours.
Peter: Yes, my heuristics are different from Orrin's.
Brit: As do high-pitched lisps. (By the way, what does it say about the English speaking peoples that the word for a lisp is "lisp." There ought to be a word for words like that, a sort of mean onomatopoeia.
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They could have come up with an easier-to-spell word than 'dyslexia' too.
But speech impediments are inherently funny, like all the misfortunes of others.
How fat?
You're Americans aren't you? I just assume you're all fat - saves my imagination time in picturing you.
I was about to post a comment reminding Brit that Peter is Canadian, and thus isn't fat and scorns fat, but secretly wishes he were fat. But I guess being Canadian is so forgettable that Peter has forgotten.
We do like our mental shortcuts. For instance I picture Brit looking just like his blogger icon, except with a feather duster instead of a cricket bat, and a saucy little French Maid outfit in place of the shirtsleeves. But maybe that's just me.
You leave Nanny out of this, Mooseface.
This sure isn't BrothersJudd.
Peter: I'm down with Shi'ite exceptionalism. I think that it is one of OJ's three great insights. But us fat people love our cars, and always will.
"Yes, my heuristics are different from Orrin's."
Orrin's heuristic is shaped like a lobster tail with the shell off.
What are the other two great insights?
The first is that our alliances in the Near and Far East will be more important in the future than our alliances in Europe.
The second is that early in his term President GW Bush used the forms of the Third Way to lure the Democrats into agreeing to legislation designed to kill the second way social programs they champion. (The irony is that the Republicans, too, have been fooled and are almost certain to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.) I disagree with Orrin's conclusion that this makes W a Third Way president. I think it makes him a crafty conservative using the tools to hand.
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