To: RipSawyer
I neglected to mention that he would have been standing on the thing, probably because I know what the man was standing on and I sometimes forget that most people these days would not have any idea what a ground sled was.
I know what a ground sled was, and I understood the man to be standing. When an individual is said to have fallen from a certain height, that height is given as the difference between the surface they fell from and the ground. Thus someone who falls from a 100 ft cliff is said to have fallen 100 feet, not 100 feet plus the six feet he stood when he was alive.
Now can you understand what I actually said?
Yes. You said a fat man took a six inch fall at two miles per hour and "busted open like a ripe watermelon and his guts spilled out". It gets funnier and funnier every time I think about it. Not the hapless uncle, mind you, but the eager young freeper swallowing hook, line and sinker what is obviously an Alabama tall tale. I bet the good ol' boy is still chuckling to himself over your gullability.
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03/28/2002 4:58:43 PM PST by
flyervet
To: flyervet
Okay, I said that was my last comment but you have done gone and done it now. "Eager young freeper"? I had that conversation thirty years ago and I was talking to someone younger than myself. I was honorably discharged from the Navy before that man went to Vietnam. And I still say that if you think what he described is impossible you don't understand diddly squat.
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