Cautionary Tales Unlimited

Lara

Lara

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DON'T LET YOUR KIDS DO THIS in "The Pool of Death" Kauai, Hawaii"! Watch to the end!
Unlimited" means use any venue, be it Discussion of previous post, or anything as long as it gets our attention! EEK! :eewwk::eek:mg1:

 

This is cautionary of frightening proportions! This is what can happen if you eat in front of your computer:

"What if a piece of Tuna falls into your keyboard and lands on a microchip, and somehow the tuna fish consciousness is reconstructed through it's DNA and it becomes a virtual entity. The fish consciousness travels through the keyboard into the fiber-optic cables of the internet's mainframe....and then it appears on every TV and computer screen in the world like in The Lawnmower Man or that Johnny Depp movie that no one saw?

What if that piece of Tuna becomes an omnipotent singularity, hell-bent on revenge for the centuries of tuna-fishing and ocean pollution that mankind has inflicted! And then the Digital Tuna God turns off every dam in the world, flooding most of civilization, killing billions. ALL BECAUSE YOU ATE LUNCH AT YOUR DESK!

Facebook is filming you through your webcam and will someday post the footage on your timeline, without warning.
BTW: Google and the NSA are watching you too." ~ Dan Meth / Via BuzzFeed


 
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65' Fiery Bubble Lava Dome arose from the ocean off Hawaii 49 yrs. ago!
Why are we just now hearing about this event back in 1969? It was just shared this
month (April2018) from the National Geographical Survey, then posted on Twitter
according to weather.com. on April 5, 2018...

https://weather.com/news/news/2018-04-05-fiery-bubble-lava-dome-photo-usgs

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Lara said:
DON'T LET YOUR KIDS DO THIS in "The Pool of Death" Kauai, Hawaii"! Watch to the end!
Unlimited" means use any venue, be it Discussion of previous post, or anything as long as it gets our attention! EEK! :eewwk::eek:mg1:

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It does look like fun at first but then when you see the current of water these guys are swimming against, you can tell it could get dangerous. I consider myself a good swimmer but I wouldn’t even jump in there.

Lara said:
65' Fiery Bubble Lava Dome arose from the ocean off Hawaii 49 yrs. ago!
Why are we just now hearing about this event back in 1969? It was just shared this
month (April2018) from the National Geographical Survey, then posted on Twitter
according to weather.com. on April 5, 2018...

https://weather.com/news/news/2018-04-05-fiery-bubble-lava-dome-photo-usgs

bubble_005841.jpg
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That is really something incredible. Mother Nature is truly amazing isn’t she.
 
Lara said:
DON'T LET YOUR KIDS DO THIS in "The Pool of Death" Kauai, Hawaii"! Watch to the end!
Unlimited" means use any venue, be it Discussion of previous post, or anything as long as it gets our attention! EEK! :eewwk::eek:mg1:

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When I was their age I'd have done that in a heartbeat......but then I've always been just a tad.

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^ I shudder to think, IKE!! ...and "nuts" made me laugh

Lara said:
This is Cautionary of frightening proportions! This is what can happen if you eat at your computer:

"What if a piece of Tuna falls into your keyboard and lands on a microchip, and somehow the tuna fish consciousness is reconstructed through it's DNA and it becomes a virtual entity. The fish consciousness travels through the keyboard into the fiber-optic cables of the internet's mainframe....and then it appears on every TV and computer screen in the world like in The Lawnmower Man or that Johnny Depp movie that no one saw?

What if that piece of Tuna becomes an omnipotent singularity, hell-bent on revenge for the centuries of tuna-fishing and ocean pollution that mankind has inflicted! And then the Digital Tuna God turns off every dam in the world, flooding most of civilization, killing billions. ALL BECAUSE YOU ATE LUNCH AT YOUR DESK!" ...Dan Meth
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Toomuchstuff said:
HAHAHAHA!!!! "A Keyboard Apocalypse"!!!!:playful:
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Toomuchstuff said:
I was referring to Lara's Tuna Story
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Toomuchstuff, your clever reply, "a Keyboard Apocalypse", makes perfect sense now...and so funny :D If I post a reply that doesn't immediately follow the post I'm referring to, I usually hit the quote button and then add my reply so there's no confusion. But it's all good. Thank you.
 
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Van Gogh's "Wheat Field"

Voices From The Edges
From the Foreword of Cautionary Tales - by Emmanuelle de Maupassant”

Here, at the edges,
Whispering to you,
And we’re not alone; not alone
Here, in the dark.

We are behind the door, in the corners,
In the room where you’ve just extinguished the light.
We flicker in the shadow you cast on the wall.
We are the prickle on the back of your neck.
Curled, in words unspoken,
We are the shiver on your uneasy flesh,
The creep of the unknown on your skin.

Can you feel us?
Here, at the edges.
 
I should have referred to your quote in my post ,Lara,but I was just too busy laughing my head off at your story and just forgot !!!! It's already tomorrow and I still think it's funny ! LOL
 
:rofl: Me too, Toomuchstuff. It was cleverly written by the guy I credited it to in my post#5, Dan Meth

There are many Cautionary Tales through song lyrics like:

Jim Croce's, "You Better Just BEWARE of a Man Named Leroy Brown"

and "DON'T Mess Around With Jim"

 
“Le Petit Chaperon Rouge” (“Little Red Riding Hood”)

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"In later versions of French writer Charles Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood”—published in 1697 as part of his book, Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals. Tales of Mother Goose—Little Red and her grandmother are rescued from the belly of the wolf by a woodcutter. Not so in the original, where the wolf devours them both, permanently.

“Children, especially attractive, well bred young ladies, should never talk to strangers, for if they should do so, they may well provide dinner for a wolf,” Perrault writes. “I say ‘wolf,’ but there are various kinds of wolves. There are also those who are charming, quiet, polite, unassuming, complacent, and sweet, who pursue young women at home and in the streets. And unfortunately, it is these gentle wolves who are the most dangerous ones of all.”
 
I wonder what's worse, the disturbingly violent fairy tales for the children back then or the interactive action video games some parents let their kids watch these days like Grand Theft Auto (and for the past 2 decades)....no doubt the latter as they're glued to the game for hours and participating in the violence. I shudder to think what could possibly top that.

That Molasses story is bizarre. I never heard of that before. Who would have thought Molasses would kill 11 people...a cautionary tale indeed. I want to laugh at the irony of it but I can't because it's real.

I don't know what happened to my 2 videos above, or is it just my computer? Hmm. I'll wait and see if they come back.
 
Jack and Jill

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Did you know that the very early woodcuts pictured Jack and 'Gill' - two boys. Somewhere along the line 'Gil' the boy became 'Jill' the girl, to add some frisson on the climb up to the hill, presumably.

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How a Half Pint broke its crown

Desperate for more money in his coffers, King Charles I suggested a reform to raise taxes on liquid measures. His proposal to raise the tax on the half pint measures ( then called a 'Jack') were blocked by parliament. King Charles I pondered on his failure and quickly ordered the nation to reduce the volume of the half pint. In those days (and even now) the half pint line is indicated as an imperial measure with the 'crown' symbol. By knocking this crown down a notch, Charles managed to get more taxes without ever having to raise them!

Thus the half -pint Jack, broke its 'crown'. The quarter pint measure was called the 'Gill'. Subsequent to the volume reduction of half a pint or 'Jack' the 'Gill' was also reduced ( came tumbling after).

Perhaps the rhyme was coined by the angry drinkers of ale, who were getting less of a pint for their buck.
 

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