The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for June 19, 2021

A couple of future Darwin Award winners.

Don’t forget to pet the wolves.

When you combine tourist and morons you get a Touron

I think it’ll end at the first one!!!

Shouldn’t that be Yolostoned?

You only live a little longer… YOLALL

Must be high on YOLOsterone.

That sounds mighty fun. I hope I can do that someday. I’ll put it on my bucket list.

“And now, the end is near” clue Sinatra

You-lost-one works for me.

The ignomy of your final resting place being a pile of steaming bear………….never mind.

Live once….. but not for long.

Guess, only James Bond can do this a second time

You can skip Old Faithful once the Bears get through with you ,you’re gonna be a pile of Steaming Bear Scat ! [ LOL ]

I think YOLB might be more appropriate. You Only Live Briefly.

They’re not smarter than the average bear.

I did a double take – in the world of image recognition YOLO is a series of algorithms aimed at capturing multiple items from a single high resolution image. It stands for You Only Look Once.

On the second take, however…

dumber and dumber…

Don’t forget the hot-tubbing in a geyser pool. The weight will just fall off your bones.

Oh, you geyser sooo crazy!

“You only live once.”

For some, it would seem to be less than once.

Oooooooooh yolo- lady whooooooo

Here, hold my beer…

Bison, please they’re bison

Cue Music: “And another one bites, and another one bites, and another one bites the Dust.”

Luckily for the human race, they won’t live long enough to reproduce.

Buffallo buffallo buffallo Buffallo buffallo buffallo Buffallo buffallo.

You guys are assuming the whole region won’t go “Blooey!” by the time you get to the bison. I wouldn’t. (Yes, I know.)

Oh… look! 2 new candidates for this year’s “Darwin Awards”

The av-er-age bear is smarter than these two.

Remember when YOLO was an admonition against stupidity instead of an invitation for it?

The young couple on their honeymoon were about to spend the week camping in Yellowstone, but first they had to listen to the ranger’s orientation speech. He was particularly emphatic about bears. “They’re a protected species, so we’ve got lots of them, but they’re still dangerous. Don’t approach them under any circumstances. And don’t try to outrun them; they’re faster than you are. And climbing a tree won’t help, either; they’re better at it than you.”

The nervous groom asked what they could do about it.

“Well, some people stop by the gift shop and pick up wristlets or anklets with little bells. Sometimes if they hear you coming, they’ll move off before you get there. You can also get cans of pepper spray in case you surprise one. Oh, and be on the lookout for fresh bear scat; that’s a sign that they’re around and you might want to leave.”

“What’s scat?” asked the bride.

“Bear droppings. You can tell what kind of bear it is by what their poop looks like. The smaller ones, black bears, have scat that’s kind of firm and roundish, like dark ping-pong balls. The really dangerous guys, the big grizzlies, have softer, flatter, lighter-colored droppings, kind of like cowpies, except they usually have little bells and smell like pepper.”

Atta boy you idiots!!!

At least they are not planning on going roller skating.

A friend of mine, hiking in the Rockies, came across a mother who had smeared strawberry jam on her young daughter’s face so she could get a picture of a bear licking it off.

Yes, he intervened before the idiot had a chance to actually kill her kid. One resource we never seem to run short of ( despite Darwin) is morons.

Darwinism at it’s finest…

Sadly too many people think they should be able to do just that.

Or, better yet, sit on Old Faithful then serve up some Rocky Mountain Oysters. Or are you YELLOW YOLO?

You only live once and only for a short time.

<—THE BEARS

There is a book on Yellowstone, on the stupid things people do there or their children, not being watched, fall into those acidic pools or just disappear, and then the wild animals, the stupid parents tell their children to stand closer for a pic

Can’t remember where I saw this but thought I’d share …

‘YOLO-Carpe diem for stupid people’

Jump onto the Buffalo, then chase down the bear cubs that are next to mama, while riding next to the geysers. Increase your odds. Darwin doesn’t work if people keep saving idiots.

Is this where one of them says “Here, hold my beer..?”

You only live once and sometimes not very long.

“There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” Yellowstone Park Ranger on why it is hard to design a bear-proof garbage can.