I grew up with lutefisk (dried cod pickled in lye), and often still eat artichokes (very large thistles). Both of these are foods that leave me wondering such questions as others here have asked.
Just about any endurance race has cutoff times. In a triathlon, say, if you don’t finish the swim in a certain amount of time, you’re not starting the bike. It seems cruel, but the times are pretty generous and well-publicized, and if you can’t make them you probably weren’t prepared for the race or else you’re having the kind of colossally bad day no one can really prepare for. (It happens.) And when it comes down to it, the organizers can only keep the course open for so long.
Still — and they really don’t publicize this — if you’re cutting it close at the end, sometimes the race organizers will fudge it. You might not get a medal, you’re on your own for water and now the course is open to traffic again, but you can at least say you finished.
There is no crying in baseball, and there is no fudging in ocean swimming. There’s this thing called tide that changes its mind as quickly, as determinedly and as dangerously as a moody spouse, and if you’re not on shore by the time it switches to ebb, you might not make it to shore no matter how close to shore you almost got.
Just the idea makes me shiver like … well, let’s just say I can shiver with the best of them.
Bilan about 7 years ago
Frazz almost became fish food?
Terrence Feenstra Premium Member about 7 years ago
Time and tide wait for no man.
sandpiper about 7 years ago
It takes a brave person to step into the unknown.
It takes a strong person to carry on in the aftermath of that step.
It takes great strength of character to overlook the insults from those who would make one less for taking that step.
nikkibelle about 7 years ago
How about the first person who went fishing and ended up with whale vomit then decided it would be good for perfume.
PoodleGroomer about 7 years ago
Sometimes a solution found as the answer to a desperate solution with the strength to survive.
john about 7 years ago
I think it was David Brenner who said the bravest man was the first one who tried milk.
FredCapp about 7 years ago
I grew up with lutefisk (dried cod pickled in lye), and often still eat artichokes (very large thistles). Both of these are foods that leave me wondering such questions as others here have asked.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 7 years ago
Frazz
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Just about any endurance race has cutoff times. In a triathlon, say, if you don’t finish the swim in a certain amount of time, you’re not starting the bike. It seems cruel, but the times are pretty generous and well-publicized, and if you can’t make them you probably weren’t prepared for the race or else you’re having the kind of colossally bad day no one can really prepare for. (It happens.) And when it comes down to it, the organizers can only keep the course open for so long.
Still — and they really don’t publicize this — if you’re cutting it close at the end, sometimes the race organizers will fudge it. You might not get a medal, you’re on your own for water and now the course is open to traffic again, but you can at least say you finished.
There is no crying in baseball, and there is no fudging in ocean swimming. There’s this thing called tide that changes its mind as quickly, as determinedly and as dangerously as a moody spouse, and if you’re not on shore by the time it switches to ebb, you might not make it to shore no matter how close to shore you almost got.
Just the idea makes me shiver like … well, let’s just say I can shiver with the best of them.