WARNING!! Long, rambling story following. Years ago, my then girlfriend and I spent a day at the Denver Museum of Natural History; (highly recommended if your ever in town) On this particular occasion, they had a special exhibit going on that kinda dealt with the evolution of life on earth. As my luck would have it, we wound up behind this gang of maybe junior high or so aged kids being led by a 20something loud, pompous ass. I’m guessing this was some kind of church outing (at least, I hope so). Anyway, in his best wanabe fire and brimstone preacher act, he’s asking (telling) his little flock "…and can you BELIEVE some people are so ignorant as to think WE evolved from… from THIS? (pointing contemptuously at a poor innocent little trilobite fossil or some such) As he’s carrying on at levels designed to save everyone attending the exhibit (Hell, everyone on that floor of the building, for that matter) from eternal Damnation, I was resigning myself to a ruined outing. I’m happy to say, I quickly rallied (deciding the unfortunate stone invertebrate didn’t deserve all this burden), and as the jerk was taking a breath for the next segment of pontification, I spoke up (in a much more pleasant but equally “’public” tone) " Hey Sue, (girlfriend), have you heard the story that some guy a long time ago made a wooden boat big enough to carry a viable breeding stock of every species of life on earth along with food and water enough for 40 days? And that some people actually think this fairy tale’s true" A hush fell over the crowd followed shortly followed by giggles and if I’m not mistaken, rather positive murmurs. The “Leader” shot me a hateful, wounded look (very unbecoming of a holy man) and he and the rest of the heard , uh, I mean flock decided to skip the rest of that part of the museum…Pretty sure I won that one…Sorry guys. In the famous words of Snoopy the dog. “When you live alone, you learn how to make your own fun”. Slow day.
allen@home over 2 years ago
“Why”
JanBic Premium Member over 2 years ago
That was 7 of each clean animal and 2 of each unclean creature. Right there in Genesis.
in-dubio-pro-rainbow over 2 years ago
That’s when he started to think: “The God(s) Must Be Crazy…”
The Reader Premium Member over 2 years ago
It was only then that Noah began to suspect that he was connected to the neighbour’s kids and not God.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
I don’t think he knows the song, it hasn’t been invented yet.
Dan Collins creator over 2 years ago
Cuz it’ll be funny.
ebonkobold over 2 years ago
WARNING!! Long, rambling story following. Years ago, my then girlfriend and I spent a day at the Denver Museum of Natural History; (highly recommended if your ever in town) On this particular occasion, they had a special exhibit going on that kinda dealt with the evolution of life on earth. As my luck would have it, we wound up behind this gang of maybe junior high or so aged kids being led by a 20something loud, pompous ass. I’m guessing this was some kind of church outing (at least, I hope so). Anyway, in his best wanabe fire and brimstone preacher act, he’s asking (telling) his little flock "…and can you BELIEVE some people are so ignorant as to think WE evolved from… from THIS? (pointing contemptuously at a poor innocent little trilobite fossil or some such) As he’s carrying on at levels designed to save everyone attending the exhibit (Hell, everyone on that floor of the building, for that matter) from eternal Damnation, I was resigning myself to a ruined outing. I’m happy to say, I quickly rallied (deciding the unfortunate stone invertebrate didn’t deserve all this burden), and as the jerk was taking a breath for the next segment of pontification, I spoke up (in a much more pleasant but equally “’public” tone) " Hey Sue, (girlfriend), have you heard the story that some guy a long time ago made a wooden boat big enough to carry a viable breeding stock of every species of life on earth along with food and water enough for 40 days? And that some people actually think this fairy tale’s true" A hush fell over the crowd followed shortly followed by giggles and if I’m not mistaken, rather positive murmurs. The “Leader” shot me a hateful, wounded look (very unbecoming of a holy man) and he and the rest of the heard , uh, I mean flock decided to skip the rest of that part of the museum…Pretty sure I won that one…Sorry guys. In the famous words of Snoopy the dog. “When you live alone, you learn how to make your own fun”. Slow day.
gammaguy over 2 years ago
Talk about impossible tasks. Yankees hadn’t yet been created, much less “Yankee Doodle”.