Stupid People

Scott Horowitz | November 4, 2004
I love stupid people.

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Anna Gregoline | November 4, 2004
Sounds more like insane than stupid to me.

Lori Lancaster | November 4, 2004
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David Mitzman | November 5, 2004
all religions have their fanatics, and I'm not very fond of the extremists either. it's the extremists that give a lot of religions their bad names. I know a lot of very friendly and nice Muslim people and they hate the Jihadists (new made up word!) more than people outside their religion.

Us Jewish folk can't be left out of it either, because we definitely have our fanatics (usually referred to as Lubovich). However, they aren't as aparrant as they don't go so extreme in public, but in conversation you can see how extreme they can get.

Amy Austin | November 5, 2004
Yeah, really... how about just the sheer stupidity of it? I'm all for "natural selection"... this guy just missed the Darwin Award, and it's too bad -- he coulda' been a contenda'!

David Mitzman | November 5, 2004
He coulda' been somebody's lunch. Hehe. I remember the Darwin Award runner up about a guy who wanted to take a low flying adventure in his lawnchair, so he managed to acquire a crapload of weather balloons, rigged up his chair to be strapped in and then hooked up the balloons and lifted off. His "low flying adventure" took him somewhere up insanely high (not high enough where he would die due to atmospheric pressure and whatnot). Anyway, read it for yourselves to get the full story: (link)

Amy Austin | November 5, 2004
Suh-weet... that is the FUNNIEST Darwin tale I *ever* read! Frickin' hilarious...

That guy is *lucky* that the decreasing atmospheric pressure of his ascension didn't take out the balloons for him -- that's what happens to them at the peak of their use -- or that he wasn't smacked by a commercial jet! If you've ever held onto a weather balloon (and I have), you know that it wouldn't take as many as were in that picture to float 30 feet over your back yard! Three or four -- six, tops -- would probably have been plenty for a little float time. (And why the *hell* would you sever anchor if that's all you really wanted to do anyway?!) Hilarious. Well, you know what they say... "Idle hands are the devil's work..."

Anna Gregoline | November 5, 2004
I don't think this lion guy was a fanatic - it sounds like mental illness, seriously. Religious confusion is one of the major branches of mental illness.

Scott Hardie | November 6, 2004
There's a new movie out this year (link) that must have been inspired by ol' Larry. Sounds interesting to me.

Amy Austin | November 6, 2004
Shoot -- I just read the story to my husband, because it was so hilarious that I wanted to share the laughs with him... but I didn't see the footnotes on the first visit, and the sad ending kind of ruined it for me. I hope it wasn't the humiliation that drove him to it... how sad.

(I would still, of course, love to hear that CB conversation, however...)