Thursday, July 29, 2004
This post was a comment by Chris, but was far too amusing to let die in comment-land.
"In fact, in these instances it becomes appropriate to say that the other was 'thrown' rather than dropped as a result of its severity and quick emergence."
This concept is hard to reconcile with the common accusation "You throw like a girl," which generally indicates a lack of severity and lethargy of emergence on the part of the projectile.
You may be able to hop the quandary with a brief but tactical application of fast-pitch-softball-style windmill imagery.
A safer route, however, might be to link the speed and severity to the shoe's falling from a greater height, from which it would certainly have accumulated more velocity upon impact, or even the shoe's angle of orientation as it falls, which could affect aerodynamics (ergo velocity) as well as the part of the shoe that makes contact (force/area=pressure; think high heels versus snowshoes).
This slight modification neatly accounts for both speed and severity without implicating a human actor in the falling of the shoe, which permits greater generalization of the theory than would be possible in its "free-will" form.
--Chris L.
P.S. This wouldn't even be a problem if women just stuck to making babies instead of buying so many damn shoes in the first place.
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"In fact, in these instances it becomes appropriate to say that the other was 'thrown' rather than dropped as a result of its severity and quick emergence."
This concept is hard to reconcile with the common accusation "You throw like a girl," which generally indicates a lack of severity and lethargy of emergence on the part of the projectile.
You may be able to hop the quandary with a brief but tactical application of fast-pitch-softball-style windmill imagery.
A safer route, however, might be to link the speed and severity to the shoe's falling from a greater height, from which it would certainly have accumulated more velocity upon impact, or even the shoe's angle of orientation as it falls, which could affect aerodynamics (ergo velocity) as well as the part of the shoe that makes contact (force/area=pressure; think high heels versus snowshoes).
This slight modification neatly accounts for both speed and severity without implicating a human actor in the falling of the shoe, which permits greater generalization of the theory than would be possible in its "free-will" form.
--Chris L.
P.S. This wouldn't even be a problem if women just stuck to making babies instead of buying so many damn shoes in the first place.
