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Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 2: Cartoon Physics

Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 2: Cartoon Physics

Well, it is time for another round of Quirky (true) Stories.  This time, I have a theme, which is: The evidence I have so far accumulated that many cartoon tropes (and cartoon-style physics) are, in fact, based on pure reality. Evidence the first: Cockroach encounters. Okay, to start, I grew up in Montana, where we kinda, mostly don’t have cockroaches?  I mean, maybe we do, but if so, they keep a very low profile.  So, the first time I ever…

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Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 1

Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 1

These stories are all apropos of nothing.  I offer them merely for the sort of entertainment one gains from truly random things. 1.1  How I learned coincidences that span the globe are just like other coincidences. So, it happened like this.  It was my senior year of college, and someone in my belly-dance class had invited me to tag along to a hafla, which is just Arabic for ‘party’ and was pretty much just a group of other college students…

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