The wit of this group never ceases to impress me; had a lot of good laughs reading the comments - but always remember the real threat. I think if 4 Americans were in a foxhole about to die, they could joke about it - which is what I suppose makes us endure.
I think it is human nature.
I read a book recently, “Halsey’s Typhoon” about Typhoon Cobra in 1944 that killed nearly 800 sailors and sunk three ships.
One sailor recounted how his ship had sunk in the black night, leaving him to survive in the open ocean in a typhoon without even a life vest.
He found that he could avoid being swamped, crushed and drowned by the gargantuan 80 foot waves by...body surfing down them! Strange but true.
So here he is...in the dark, in the raging ocean, probably ticking off each minute as one more minute survived, then working on the next minute, surfing down the face of these waves in the night.
He came to the realization that others had figured it out as well, and to his amazement, a guy he knew surfed by him and shouted “Woooo hoooo! Ain’t this great?”
Unbelievable. Of course, the guy may have lost his mind, but that wasn’t how it came across.
And I agree about the wit of these people on FR. A VERY talented group.