A reminder: Children do not come with angel wings.
Somewhere, at some university, a professor (or even a TA) is crafting a midterm Physics 1A problem based on this scenario.
Math majors? Sounds more like the work of physics majors to me. Or maybe engineers.
The out of control, giant snowball kind of reminds me of our out of control federal deficit.
Slippery slope PING!
As a Reed College dropout, I can readily believe this.
Maybe they just learned about Sisyphus.
It’s almost criminal for a story like that not to have a picture.
When I was a kid (maybe 9 or 10) my friends and I thought it would be a great idea to make a huge snowball and roll it into my father’s driveway. The thing was huge - took about 6 of us to move it.
Needless to say, dad didn’t think it was too funny when he got home. I also didn’t think too far ahead. All of my friends had gone home and I had to remove it by myself.
If only the state had required snowball permits this tragedy would never have happened ;-)
“Ruh roh, Raggy!”
When I was a freshman in the dorm, our 3rd floor room overlooked the tennis court. We thought that was the perfect testing ground for a molotov cocktail.
Ingredients:
Two drunken students.
One quart beer bottle, half full of lighter fluid.
One paper towell for fuse.
One drunken assistant to light fuse while I held the bomb cocked like a football, ready to throw.
Fuse lit, as I threw bomb the lighter fluid caught and shot out of bottle lighting my shirt on fire. I ran around the room like a lunatic until it went out.
Bottle smashed on tennis court, shirt ruined, no damage to me.
Major success on all counts.
Back in the day, my gang of friends and I used to make these huge snowballs at night and leave them in the worst places - behind cars in driveways, at the foot of people’s porch steps, at the fenced walkway into the schoolyard, etc...
I still can’t help but to chuckle.
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