02-16-2022, 09:10 AM
I've never seen anything like it. I stand in awe at the reckless abandon!
The closest I have ever come to anything like that was chasing a deer. I shot the deer, and it started running, so I took off after it, figuring I could eventually catch it when it bled down. Ran straight down a hillside full tilt after it, and it was only after I was half way down, or maybe2/3 of the way, that I realized I could not stop running. To do so would have been suicidal, and would have launched me straight into oblivion.
So I kept going, secure in the knowledge that eventually, gravity would assist me in slowing down once I started up the opposite hillside.
It turned out to be unfortunate that I failed to account for the creek running through the holler between the hills. Even more unfortunate that I failed to account for the quick-mud on both sides of the creek.
Still, I gave it a bully effort, mostly because there was nothing else I could do. Momentum carried me across the mud on the near side of the creek, but when I tried to jump the creek, fate took the steering wheel. Made it across the creek in one jump, spurred on by momentum, but when I landed on the far side, gravity took over and I sank up into the mud almost to my hips. that served to arrest the forward motion of my legs, but momentum took control of my upper body, and a faceplant into the mud resulted. A really FAST faceplant.
BAMSPLAT!
I did extract myself from the quickmud, but it sucked to boots right off my feet, so I had to turn around and flatten out on it to present more surface area to the mud while I fished my boots back out of it.
Then I ran onward up the next hill after the deer. I got it around 2/3 of the way to the top. I was a pretty mess, but I had my supper in hand.
My companion on that hunt, obviously much wiser than I, sat it out on the top of the first hill, laughing so hard at me that he nearly burst asunder.
I gave him part of the deer anyhow.
Now that was of a necessity, unlike tumbling ass over appetite after a rolling wheel of cheese.
That boggles the mind. I like cheese, but not THAT much!
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The closest I have ever come to anything like that was chasing a deer. I shot the deer, and it started running, so I took off after it, figuring I could eventually catch it when it bled down. Ran straight down a hillside full tilt after it, and it was only after I was half way down, or maybe2/3 of the way, that I realized I could not stop running. To do so would have been suicidal, and would have launched me straight into oblivion.
So I kept going, secure in the knowledge that eventually, gravity would assist me in slowing down once I started up the opposite hillside.
It turned out to be unfortunate that I failed to account for the creek running through the holler between the hills. Even more unfortunate that I failed to account for the quick-mud on both sides of the creek.
Still, I gave it a bully effort, mostly because there was nothing else I could do. Momentum carried me across the mud on the near side of the creek, but when I tried to jump the creek, fate took the steering wheel. Made it across the creek in one jump, spurred on by momentum, but when I landed on the far side, gravity took over and I sank up into the mud almost to my hips. that served to arrest the forward motion of my legs, but momentum took control of my upper body, and a faceplant into the mud resulted. A really FAST faceplant.
BAMSPLAT!
I did extract myself from the quickmud, but it sucked to boots right off my feet, so I had to turn around and flatten out on it to present more surface area to the mud while I fished my boots back out of it.
Then I ran onward up the next hill after the deer. I got it around 2/3 of the way to the top. I was a pretty mess, but I had my supper in hand.
My companion on that hunt, obviously much wiser than I, sat it out on the top of the first hill, laughing so hard at me that he nearly burst asunder.
I gave him part of the deer anyhow.
Now that was of a necessity, unlike tumbling ass over appetite after a rolling wheel of cheese.
That boggles the mind. I like cheese, but not THAT much!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’