September 2008
2 posts
The Other Side of the World Is not China! →
When I was growing up, I always thought if I dug down deep enough, I’d end up in China. But! Thanks to this map tool, I discovered that now if I had been somehow able to dig completely through earth with my six-year-old hands, I’d have come out in the ocean, off the west coast of Australia! Not nearly as fun.
Only children in Argentina and Chile have any hope of digging straight...
Smokey did what? →
I love Smokey and the Bandit I and II (and well, ok…III, sort of), but have you read the plot for the second movie on wikipedia? It reads like it was written by a precocious 8-year-old:
“When Cledus opens the crate containing the elephant, Charlotte races out, nearly trampling Frog. The Bandit saves the day by doing a backflip onto the elephant’s back and riding the elephant...