Some people run beautifully. If you tie them to someone else, though, the two of them would each, I think, run half as beautifully.
You’ve heard of exponential curves, right?
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Your eyes aren’t playing tricks- you’re getting to see the paddlers’ blindfolds! Close up!
We can see that no one’s cheating so far, anyhow.
‘Member in that Avengers movie? Tony Stark says, “I HAVE a Plan of Attack. Attack!”
That’s Big Ron’s plan to win the boat race.
“Paddle ’til you win.”
It’s very sound logic. Or maybe it just very much sounds like it might be logic.
Before you ask… or assume… No, I never was an A-Team fan. I’ve seen the movie, though, and I like it alright. Never did watch the TV series.
But as with a lot of things in a big, strong, popular culture- I got the gist. The sense of it. The ‘feel’. Some of the catchphrases.
Add all that stuff up, and you get a ‘meme’ these days. Too bad you can’t really plan a meme.
Mal should know better than to try to have a conversation with guys who’ve basically been Tailgating it for two days.
On the other hand, the way he opened two beers at once… maybe he was a bartender in college, and he’s good at talking to drunks.
Remember when you were a school kid? And there was that one squidgey kid whose big sister would protect him from the rotten kids? And then you realized one day that she wasn’t treating her little brother any better than the bullies, it’s just that she’s family and the kid was used to it from her anyhow. Heck, it was probably her that taught him to eat bugs if you offered him pocket change.
There was a point to that story, but I’ve forgotten what it was.
