It's a good ol' American tradition: the telling of tall tales in a perfectly dead-pan style. There's enough weird stuff in Kansas, though, that maybe the story is actually true.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
Man, I step away from the ol' blog for a day, and what do I get? A rash of the right-wing dingleberries. Come on, everyone, ignore them, they're nuts.
I do notice a few things, though. My post was about the concern that we would use nuclear weapons against Iran in an unprovoked attack. Read the…
In logic, a conditional is an if-then statement. “If it rains, then I will go to the movies,” that's a conditional. The question is, how should we assign a truth value to such a statement? This is a question of some importance to mathematicians, since every theorem is ultimately an if-then…
I am obscurely glad to learn from this Times human-interest story that Kansas center Sasha Kaun is from Russia. Otherwise, he is at the age where any parent naming their child "Sasha Kaun" would've had to deal with everybody thinking "Sasha Kaun Sasha Kaun everybody Sasha Kaun..." Yes, I am both a…
So, looking at the SRI studies of undergraduate research and its effects, it seems like the solution to a lot of problems. Involvement in research has been shown to increase student interest in science careers and increase the likelihood of graduate school, regardless of the race and gender of the…
Yeah, we have similiar stories that we tell tourists here in australia as well. Never heard of the vicious australian dropbear? Better be careful when hiking through the bushland of australia is all I am prepared to say..
Drop bear
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear
May I suggest the Great Sand Trout thread from alt.culture.us.southwest back in the day.
Reminds me of the time I scared one of my bosses out of a ski trip with my tales about the West Virginia Snow Snake.
We have a lot of people who act like apes here but I've never seen them fly without an airpline. Those snipes, though, they'll getcha.
Between the snipes and these jackalopes, coyotes in eastern Oregon have a rough life.
http://www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm