bikehikebabe sent an email that included this joke:
A roadrunner’s top speed is 20 miles per hour while a coyote can reach speeds of up to 43 mile per hour.
My whole childhood was a lie….
Were/are you a roadrunner cartoon fan? Do you think the truth makes any difference here? Do you ever let the truth get in the way of a good story?
February 1, 2014
I was and still am a great fan of all cartoons that celebrate the underdog. No, it does not make any difference now that the speed has been exposed as a lie.
Do you think the Roadrunner was the underdog? The coyote was trying to be the predator, but it was clear he would always lose.
Roadrunner cartoon fan? Sure.
Truth and cartoons… I don’t know that I ever saw them as anything but entertainment.
Most of the time, I suspend belief when watching an action thriller, fantasy, or sci fi movie… or when reading it in fiction. That is until they have something stupid in it about something I know a bit about… especially when it helps feed an adverse stereotypical view –> like all you have to do to bring a nuclear reactor to near melt conditions is to turn off a couple of cooling pumps. Read that in a Tom Clancy book last week. Even worse was the fact that the plant he picked out was the one I worked at for over 25 years!
I do pretty well suspending belief too, but I can imagine that Clancy being so far off would break the fantasy. When reading or watching fiction I occasionally think, “that would never happen”, but it has to be pretty bad to break the spell completely.
I LOVE THE ROAD RUNNER CARTOONS!
whoops. i guess i’m yelling there! well . . . meep meep! xoxo
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the older i get . . . the more lies i found were told. in school books and such . . .
makes one wonder if there is an actual ‘truth’. i think not. all a matter of the other’s perspective? just facts? that are always changing and that fit together weirdly perhaps?
i honestly don’t know. but we are happy puppies you and me . . . just the same! 😀
That’s one reason I like the internet. When I read things I often go looking for more information and other people’s perspectives. You wouldn’t believe how much time I spent reading about the Asian carp problems and opportunities. Apparently Illinois and Michigan went all the way to the Supreme Court about keeping the carp out of the Great Lakes at the expense of disrupting shipping by closing the Chicago Canal. Why this topic? Who knows? The jumping silverfins grabbed my attention and the more I looked into it, the more interested I got.
That’s why I love blogging. We can write about anything that grabs our interest. We don’t have to worry about boring people because they don’t have to read it. And sometimes other people are interested.
I’ve always loved cartoons. In the late 1930s we had a Felix the Cat cartoon that I watched many times — of course. It was clear, sharp, focused. We had a 16 mm projector which is ?? times clearer than the 8mm projectors that were used up ’til now—if anyone had a cartoon shown on a projector & screen at home. LOL 😀
Or was it the film that was 16mm? I don’t know about these things.
It was the projector.
16mm is the size of the film. This article shows the different sizes.
Andy’s folks had a 16mm camera and projector — that size came in before 8mm. His parents didn’t use it much because they didn’t have much money, and when they took the annual pictures of the kids they often had the exposure wrong.
I loved that cartoon (and though Pepe Le Pew was really boring).
“If you want to tell a story write non-fiction; if you want to tell the truth write fiction.”
I used to love the roadrunner and Bugs Bunny.
I agree that sometimes fiction writers do a good job of describing human nature, but I prefer history and good biographies. I just finished reading Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East. It follows four men — an American, a Zionist, a German and an Englishman (T.E. Lawrence) in the Middle East around the first world war. It’s gives a lot of insight into the mess there now.
technical details don’t bother me with this type of cartoon, animation…it’s all just plain fun and always hoping that one will outwit the other!
knowing an equation of the fastest/slowest makes not one iota of difference…anyway why did we have care…
Some people think cartoons are too violent for kids. I don’t think any of us believe that! The thoughts of them just bring back great memories and laughs.
These cartoons were always portraying the so called weaker getting the better of the strong like Tom And Jerry, Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny, and so on the appeal being that the Davids can take on the Goliaths.
You’re right, of course. 🙂