Posted on 02/23/2008 6:52:06 PM PST by discipler
We count our (my) front end damage by the dealership plates we have in our garage. I have a ‘cutesy’ plate on the front (that we take off when it gone in for repair; they always place the dealership license/logo thingy in the plate holder—in PA you only have to have your license plated in the rear.) Somewhere in that itemized bill there is a ‘Blankedy-Blank Chevrolet’ plate fee (I just know it!)
That would be about the right amount of damage, LOL!
Once I knocked a young buck right off his antlers—seriously, they were behind the car, he ended up about 50 feet down the road from the front of my car. It was 5 am on a Feb morning, I was headed to class...
One time I was driving through a very small town after a late shift at the hospital, the doe jumped over a fence in somebody’s yard and into the car.
Third time, the deer ran into the driver’s side of the truck, jumped/fell over the top into the front and I hit him as I stopped. Still dead. That one did the most damage. I know it sounds wierd, but that’s what happened.
You wrote:
“Can you fit the name Galileo Galilei into that statement somehow?”
Yes, easily.
Observe: Other dumb people believe Galileo lived in the Dark Ages when he actually lived in the 17th century.
Still want to help?
Read this then: http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2004/07/early-protestant-hostility-towards.html
The first one was a big buck and he hit it doing 55 mph on a rural highway. That one actually got up and ran. My husband actually went looking for it over a couple of days because he wanted the rack off it. He never found it.
The second one died nearly instantly and the 3rd one we had to shoot at the scene as she was still alive after he hit her less than a 1/4 mile from our home. (I was with him during the 3rd deer hit, she came out at the bottom of a large hill as we came down the hill and we were doing about 45 mph in a non posted speed limit zone) She was badly injured and would have died in about an hour on her own but there was no reason to let her suffer a slow death. We had a man in the area hit a very large buck that had some 36+ points on the rack and the man who hit did not want the deer head and rack, he gave it to some guy that was driving by and stopped. The guy he gave it to sold it for big dollars to Cabelas or Bass Pro. I have a picture of it some where on my computer.
I can honestly say that I hit a crow once, and it took a lot of effort let me tell you .......lol
My little buck only had 6 points. :D
The guys who stopped, going the other way, said he was about 150 pounds. They took it for the meat, gave me the antlers for the dogs to gnaw on.
You wrote:
“And what about Copernicus?”
What about him? He dedicated his book to the pope and its publication was paid for by a cardinal.
Did some Catholics have problems with Copernicus’ book and ideas? Yes. Some STILL do.
Then again, Protestants were just as bad:
Martin Luther wrote about Copernicus:
“People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon . . . This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy, but sacred Scripture tells us (Joshua 10:13) that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.”
Philip Melancthon wrote:
Some think it a distinguished achievement to construct such a crazy thing as that Prussian astronomer who moves the earth and fixes the sun. Verily, wise rulers should tame the unrestraint of men’s minds.
and:
Certain men, either from the love of novelty, or to make a display of ingenuity, have concluded that the earth moves . . . Now, it is a want of honesty and decency to assert such notions publicly and the example is pernicious. It is the part of a good mind to accept the truth as revealed by God and to acquiesce in it . . . The earth can be nowhere if not in the centre of the universe.
You might want to look at this AND LEARN:
http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2004/07/early-protestant-hostility-towards.html
Do we swerve to miss hitting gay cavemen?
Talk about one hell of a road kill! :-)
(we have some big ol’ bucks here is Southern IL)
With my husband’s, the deer was trying to jump over the car, but clipped the front passenger door with a back rear hoof while landing(?) on the the roof with the front ones. We thought they were going to total the car...but they fixed it.
That is just awesome! WOW!
(Actually, beautiful...)
After reading the earlier text I compared the defense in that text to the Clintons, blaming the victim.
The text you sent me to is similar to the MSM from the Clinton era. Remember when Clintons were caught in their lies in a very public way? The MSM began running articles on how lies were actually the lubricant that helped create a smooth society.
The text you link to basically is using the same defense. Everybody does it, therefore there’s nothing wrong with it.
There is something wrong with the way those science pioneers were treated. And it’s wrong to cover it up, even after all these years.
It wasn’t me who brought this up, I was simply responding to a falsehood.
They are so goofy! Sometimes, I think the deer hide in the woods, then say, “Hold muh beer and watch this!” just before they jump in front of a car.
I remember that in driver's ed. We were told to hit the soft target if we had a "choice". We made a joke about if we ran our car into a crowd that we should hit the softest guy.
Are you advocating that commercials show animals being run over? Just wonderin’.
Ahem! I hit the tree. But, Geico still handled my claim wonderfully.
In my job, we are told if a deer runs in front of you, you hit the deer. No swerving or heroic hollywood stunt driving. Less damage is done by driving straight. No rollovers, or colliding with other objects.
Nice rack!
Anyone who watches commercials is goofy. That's time to go channel surfing.
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