TelegramSam wrote:Like if you slept with the blanket over your head, you wouldn't get eaten by the monsters in the dark. I did so until I was in the 3rd grade or so
Whoa. Me too. Now I just snarl at them.
You mean the blanket technique DOESN'T work? Oh dear.
Redwolf
...agus déanfaidh mé do mholadh ar an gcruit a Dhia, a Dhia liom!
TelegramSam wrote:Like if you slept with the blanket over your head, you wouldn't get eaten by the monsters in the dark. I did so until I was in the 3rd grade or so
Whoa. Me too. Now I just snarl at them.
You mean the blanket technique DOESN'T work? Oh dear.
Redwolf
Be cool, Redwolf. Nobody said the blanket doesn't work. Emmline just changed her tactics, that's all. The blanket has always worked fine for me.
The blanket works but there's a catch: only body parts actually covered by the blanket are protected. If a foot sticks out, or your hand, that's fair game.
To further complicate the issue, there is a special rule about the head: if you lie perfectly still with your eyes closed, the Things in the Dark can't see your head.
You guys made me laugh with the blanket thing. I tried that a bit, but since I had a greater fear of being smothered by a pillow (you'll have to ask my older brother about that one), I never made it long into the night with the blanket over my head.
Like Jim says, I think the idea was that if you couldn't SEE the monster, somehow he wouldn't getya. That included the corollary that they were indeed UNDER the bed, but as long as you stayed in the bed with eyes closed you would be okay. Funny how that worked to parents' advantage, come to think of it.
But later, when I lived in India, I learned to sleep with a sheet completely covering my body (and over my head) despite the heat, because of the #$% mosquitoes. Mindya, they probably did bite through the fabric, but not as successfully. You only had to listen to them whine...God, I hate that sound.
When I was lucky I had a mosquitoe net.
Once in Thailand I woke up in the night and
saw a large cockroach on the net. Either it was
outside, which was alright, or inside, which was
less good. I swatted at him, to see (yes, fellow
Buddhists, I assaulted my little many-legged
brother or sister!). Inside, of course, and down
my shirt he fell, running about my bod at about
70 miles per hour.
The mind becomes wonderfully lucid on such occasions.
I calculated his/her/ its trajectory and crunched
my brother or sister just as she/he/it
passed between my shoulder blades.
(Well, you know, it was karma; bound to
have a better incarnation; probably a former recorder player.)
This sort of thing is why I don't want another
universe. Any Cosmoganer in the Void,
thinking of picking up a whistle, might
consider leaving well enough alone.
There's nothing the matter with Nothing.
Thanks for Nothing!
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All well and good, this speculating about cosmic Overtons, the Generation of the universe, the Big Twang and blahforth...what about Original Syn? C'mon, let's get really fractious, here.
Has anyone considered that one postulated shape of the universe may well resemble something uncannily not unlike a mongo jaw-harp? I give you the Big Boing theory.
The proper origin of the universe has to the big bong theory.
Remember the sayings of the Oracle of Delphi....
gurgle..gurgle...gurgle
No...I find it hard to believe we were hookah-ed into existence. God and her friends sitting around with "Do Bongs" t-shirts on..."hey man...wanna make a universe?" Just no way.
DaleWisely wrote:
There you go. So, I'm thinking that if someone, maybe Colin Goldie, could make some really mammoth whistles and we could blow enough air through them, we could create a parallel whistle universe and there would be like dinosaurs and other cool stuff. But, I may be wrong about this because my mind is not that "scientific."
Dale
You might want to check out this thread regarding the manufacture of cosmos creating sized whistles:
