Did I Understand that Right ??!!??? About Knowing When Your
Tent's Been Filched??? That's IT?!!?
That’s the difference?!??!
And off we goooooo …
I totally love the little fable below, with its focus on the importance of knowing what’s …. important. Maybe that is the real diff between being reasonably smart and chock full of book-larnin’, and being a total deductive genius. Who knows?
Truthfully, I’m the last person to ask. Honestly. My mind seems to have been custom-built to shoot, immediately, down almost any inviting rabbit hole, the nearer the better, then into bolt-holes, and after that thru magical Narnia armoires, followed rapidly by losing my way totally and falling into an alternate universe, clutching a little iced caked that says “Eat Me” and a sandwich bag full of pork rinds. For the protein, you know.
The global ant population of planet Earth is larger than
all the other animals on the planet, combined … wow !!!
Who knew …. or needed to …
Unfortunately, I almost always find out, and the answer generally is: “More than you obviously could have imagined, and not as effective as you might have hoped.”
Soooooo ..... not exactly Holmesian logic ....
Holmes and Watson are on a camping trip in England’s scenic Lake District.
In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge.
"Watson" he says, "look up in the sky and tell me what you see."
"I see millions of stars, Holmes," says Watson.
"And what do you conclude from that, Watson?"
Watson thinks for a moment. "Well," he says, "astronomically, it tells me that there are millions
of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo.
Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meteorologically,
I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I see that
God is all-powerful, and we are small and insignificant.
Uh, what does it tell you, Holmes?"
"Watson, you idiot! Someone has stolen our tent! ― Thomas Cathcart
Where the fluck am I? Am I still
somewhere in the Milky Way ?
Speaking of Milky Ways, does anyone
have a Midnite Mars Bar?
Or are you more of a “Hey, that’s an interesting rabbit hole, I wonder what’s at the bottom? Or if there is a bottom. Or if it goes straight thru Middle Earth and then drops into another dimension. Let’s just jump in and see, shall we?”
Inquiring minds want to know, or at least they say they do until a shiny object draws their eye and shifts their attention, so you should probably answer quickly, or at least before everyone forgets what the question was, if they haven't already …. WHOA!!! Was that a lace-winged dragonfly ???