Its sad, but true: all the best that Michigan has to offer is found lying by the side of the road. And look what turned up this time.
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While I'm reminiscing about my father, I just have to tell this story. This may be the single funniest thing my father has ever said or done, and it's even funnier if you know him. My father has a very dry sense of humor, but he's not a guy who tells a lot of jokes or generally tries to make people…
tags: politics, humor, satire, why did the chicken cross the road
A friend set this to me, asking me if he was the last person to read this important philosophical essay. Well, apparently not, because I have never read this, either. But I found it amusing anyway.
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road…
There was a time when I was vacationing, near the Bosque del Apache
wildlife preserve. There were literally thousands of birds.
Most were snow geese or sandhill cranes. There were
a lot of people, too.
But off a ways, there was a trail. It went, among other
places, to a spot called Solitude…
On the way home from the mountains Sunday night, I was decelerating around one of those lovely Pennsylvanian descending hairpin curves just as a big white dog trotted casually up the slope in the middle of the road. I swerved to avoid it, fully into the opposing lane, barely missed.
I swung the car…
hmmmm..... the article says "The extinct elephant-like mammal roamed the earth millions of years ago" and then says "Mastodons have been extinct for more than 10,000 years". (emphasis mine)
No proofreading at this news site?
Ha, nice catch. Maybe the article was written by a young-earth creationist? :P
Actually, an early form of mastodon came across the land bridge about 15 million years ago, and they went extinct about 12,500 years ago. Thus both figures are correct.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3004.shtml