On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Niels Blaauw <niels_at_nibla.nl> wrote: > > You'd better beware, Craig, or Darwin might catch up with _you_! > It's too late. Natural selection is done with us once we are no longer "breeding". I have been done with that ever since my wife had me and the cat fixed on the same trip to town. And I have a catnip toy around here somewhere to prove it. :P > > On the other hand: Your rescue would have been highly ethical. Bad genes > can result in nice people. Should we congratulate you on your high moral > standard, or condole you on your faulty genes? I chose the former. Genes are > nasty fascist things anyway. > I would not like to face the mother of these kids knowing that I actually could have done something with little risk to myself in the process. As it turned out, they didn't need help this time. Next time I hope to be paddling. > > More to the point: How can boys be _that_ bloody stupid!? > > Seems to be part of being a 5th grader and the onset of the testosterone fog. Girls get the same thing but in a different form (called "fashion"). The schools cannot get them to wear coats to school even after their school bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere in winter. Coats are simply not in fashion... skimpy little tops are. Craig Jungers Moses Lakek WA www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jan 26 2010 - 19:50:53 PST
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