Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 08, 2013

They bow to your will, Alice.

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Kevin, disbelief will lead to severe consequences. You have been warned! Do not tempt the Mighty Alice!

Thanks Cul de Sac, I just woke up my wife laughing.

@ Doctor Toonthat is going to make one heck of a storm.

this would petrify my brother he used to be scared to death of butterflies, that may or may not have been do to his older brother telling him they are poisonous to the touch. :)

That “Butterfly Effect” theory is at the core of the movie “A Sound of Thunder”. It didn’t get good reviews, but I enjoyed it.

In the wrong hands they are rather squishy.

I had an old neuron saying something about “The Butterfly Effect” phrase originating with Isaac Asimov, but

http://askville.amazon.com/phrase-Butterfly-Effect-originate/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=50157543

believes that it originated with another SF writer, Ray Bradbury, in 1952. The Butterfly Effect idea was, according to this source, based on a theory that was originated in the 19th Century.

I controlled bees with spoken commands for about fifteen minutes one day in high school. Then I decided I’d better not waste my great gift. I don’t think the bees even know who I am any more.

I remember an article in Reader’s Digest back when I cared, called “On the Length of Cleopatra’s Nose,” which discussed how small changes could have made large differences on a greater scale.