RE: [Paddlewise] Natural Selection at Work

I think back to my earlier days. Chances I took. Hmmm. The problem wasn't
that I was an idiot. The problem was I didn't know I was an idiot.

Doug Lloyd


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
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