Things To Ponder - Page 2

DanaC · 11-20-2007, 02:24 PM

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The driver said "hop in".

Ouch.

Drax · 11-20-2007, 02:25 PM

Does the little mermaid wear an algaebra?

DanaC · 11-20-2007, 02:26 PM

lol

JuancoRocks · 11-20-2007, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

I wanna know why you see shoes hanging from power lines.

Multiple reasons...The most common is explanation is that drugs are sold nearby (Crack, heroin...take your pick...it's advertising.)

Second is that someone has died there and that it's a memorial....

Third, somebody graduated from school....or military basic training

All are listed as possible wacky urban legends...as it happens in rural areas as well as in the cities.

Cloud · 11-20-2007, 11:27 PM

drugs are sold nearby? Nearby being a relative word, I think that's pretty much everywhere. Interesting, though.

so strange . . a little netsurfing shows a lot of these reasons. But have you ever done it? or known someone who has flung shoes?

Shawnee123 · 11-21-2007, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

drugs are sold nearby? Nearby being a relative word, I think that's pretty much everywhere. Interesting, though.

so strange . . a little netsurfing shows a lot of these reasons. But have you ever done it? or known someone who has flung shoes?

Hey, he was an exchange student in my high school, but he spelled it "Hoo Haas Flung Choo." He was a Chinese-Norwegian.

monster · 11-21-2007, 03:12 PM

Apparently, there's a fashion for throwing them on trees too....

Shoe Trees

Drax · 11-21-2007, 05:29 PM

If something was miss-spelled in a dictionary how would we know?

Cloud · 11-21-2007, 05:43 PM

well, if it has three "s"s in a row, you can be pretty sure it's misspelled.

Sundae · 11-21-2007, 05:51 PM

We get shoes on top of bus shelters here (you can see them from the top of double deckers). Definitely those pesky kids.

My thing to ponder - when someone says, "Can I help you?" why is help the last thing you'll usually get?

Drax · 11-21-2007, 06:02 PM

Why is it that when someone finds something they've lost, and when asked about it, they'll say "It was in the last place I looked."?

Clodfobble · 11-21-2007, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

But have you ever done it? or known someone who has flung shoes?

In my high school, all the seniors in marching band would throw their (purchased uniform) shoes over a line in front of the school on the last day of classes. It's as good a tradition as any, it's not like they'd ever need those shoes again... The janitors always took them down within a day or two though.

LJ · 11-21-2007, 11:50 PM

i've totally done it. we all do it. everybody does it.

Cloud · 11-22-2007, 12:01 AM

. . . even though they say you'll go blind . . .

Sundae · 11-22-2007, 05:14 AM

I only threw a shoe once. Never again.

I was in the first year of school, so 4-5. We were going for a walk in the Convent garden when my teacher saw a shoe by the side of the bushes. It looked long abandoned, an old tramp's shoe. She threw it further into the bushes - this was in the days before recyling. Now something in my little anarchist soul rejoiced at this - shoes, which had to be cared for, not scuffed, which WERE EXPENSIVE could be thrown into bushes! You couldn't even do that with litter!

A few days later on the playing field, I found my chance. A whole pile of abandoned shoes! I took one at random and lobbed it over the hedge into the allotments beyond. It really flew. Sadly, they belonged to a group of older girls doing handstands nearby. I was completely unable to explain myself and fell back on a lie suggested by the girl whose shoe I had liberated, "Did an older girl tell you to do it?" I was still in trouble, but so genuinely baffled that they let me off lightly.

Sorry Catherine Gordon. I honestly didn't know it was wrong, but I did do it on purpose.

11-20-2007, 11:27 PM	#20
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	drugs are sold nearby? Nearby being a relative word, I think that's pretty much everywhere. Interesting, though. so strange . . a little netsurfing shows a lot of these reasons. But have you ever done it? or known someone who has flung shoes? __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!" Last edited by Cloud; 11-20-2007 at 11:34 PM.

11-21-2007, 03:12 PM	#22
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Apparently, there's a fashion for throwing them on trees too.... Shoe Trees __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-21-2007, 05:43 PM	#24
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	well, if it has three "s"s in a row, you can be pretty sure it's misspelled. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

11-21-2007, 05:51 PM	#25
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	We get shoes on top of bus shelters here (you can see them from the top of double deckers). Definitely those pesky kids. My thing to ponder - when someone says, "Can I help you?" why is help the last thing you'll usually get? __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

11-22-2007, 12:01 AM	#29
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	. . . even though they say you'll go blind . . . __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

11-20-2007, 02:25 PM	#17
Drax Banned Join Date: May 2007 Location: Gallman, MS, USA Posts: 1,933	Does the little mermaid wear an algaebra?

11-20-2007, 02:26 PM	#18
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	lol

11-21-2007, 05:29 PM	#23
Drax Banned Join Date: May 2007 Location: Gallman, MS, USA Posts: 1,933	If something was miss-spelled in a dictionary how would we know?

11-21-2007, 06:02 PM	#26
Drax Banned Join Date: May 2007 Location: Gallman, MS, USA Posts: 1,933	Why is it that when someone finds something they've lost, and when asked about it, they'll say "It was in the last place I looked."?

11-21-2007, 11:50 PM	#28
LJ i am myself Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: via blackberry, maybe Posts: 750	i've totally done it. we all do it. everybody does it.

11-22-2007, 05:14 AM	#30
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I only threw a shoe once. Never again. I was in the first year of school, so 4-5. We were going for a walk in the Convent garden when my teacher saw a shoe by the side of the bushes. It looked long abandoned, an old tramp's shoe. She threw it further into the bushes - this was in the days before recyling. Now something in my little anarchist soul rejoiced at this - shoes, which had to be cared for, not scuffed, which WERE EXPENSIVE could be thrown into bushes! You couldn't even do that with litter! A few days later on the playing field, I found my chance. A whole pile of abandoned shoes! I took one at random and lobbed it over the hedge into the allotments beyond. It really flew. Sadly, they belonged to a group of older girls doing handstands nearby. I was completely unable to explain myself and fell back on a lie suggested by the girl whose shoe I had liberated, "Did an older girl tell you to do it?" I was still in trouble, but so genuinely baffled that they let me off lightly. Sorry Catherine Gordon. I honestly didn't know it was wrong, but I did do it on purpose. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

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