"..????...it's fabulous cuz it's stretched"
Posted on 06/21/2018 4:41:48 AM PDT by simpson96
The thing you must realize about rabid killer cats and the brave Southern women who’ve fought them to the death is this:
The heroic women are compelling.
And their laconic way of putting things is just perfect, as if they’re characters in some Southern Gothic story by Flannery O’Connor. And their tales involve murderous cats going for the jugular.
These are not your cat ladies. These are your survivors.
“Well, there was a big telephone pole. I just got it by the tail and whipped it around the pole,” Isabelle Blankenship, 85, of Roanoke, Va., once told this column about the killer rabid cat she whomped on that pole.
She was in her robe and slippers, picking up the morning paper in her driveway, when the cat, named Mr. Scruffkins, attacked her. It was either fight or die.
She grabbed that tail and began whirling like a Virginia dervish. Courage and scientifically applied centrifugal force vanquished her mortal foe.
“That kind of knocked it out,” she said of the whomping. “And they took me to the hospital. Everything is fine now. I am taking rabies shots.”
Did you scream as you whomped it?
“Well, no, I fought it, but it wasn’t no use for screaming,” she said.
I fought it, but it wasn’t no use for screaming.
A sentiment that should be carved in marble in a pantheon of heroes.
And now comes DeDe Phillips, a youngish grandmother from Hart County in northeast Georgia who walked outside her home on a recent evening to take a photo of a bumper sticker she’d applied to her truck:
“Women who behave rarely make history.”
That’s when she spotted the bobcat. She took a photo of the predator instead of the bumper sticker. It moved toward her.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
*ping*
What a fabulous tale!
"..????...it's fabulous cuz it's stretched"
"..he was such a good cat growing up"
“centrifugal” (sic) or centripetal. There’s a difference in physics ...
DEF: a force that acts on a body moving in a circular path and is directed toward the center around which the body is moving.
It’s a different force acting on the cat when it hit the telephone pole.
I see what you did there ;-)
So...a centrifuge should actually be called a...cetripuge?
It is rural
Can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting a telephone pole.
Here’s a view from a foreigner - an Estonian native.
The plot thickens ...
Author’s name is John Kass and in Estonian ‘Kass’ means cat. Now he is writing about murderous cats.
Who benefits?
The word comes from latin - center and fleeing.
Even dictionaries get the definition wrong.
When you draw rotational dynamic force vectors, it’ll mess with your head to see how the arrows just seem to point the wrong way, indicating forces applied. In physics, the force that PULLS the rock on the end of the string is centripetal, although the force YOU feel on a merrygoround is centrifugal. The saddle underneath you on the ride applies centripetal force to keep you on the ride.
Pedantic, I know ...
Interesting.
Kass’s ancestry is Greek.
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