Monday, October 24, 2005

Nerdiness

Went to the coast yesterday on a field trip for my geology class. After about eight hours "out in the field" with my classmates, I was forced to come to an inescapable conclusion: cool people do not go on geology field trips. These are excursions for the nerd elite. I can only say that there were a lot of Star Wars jokes.
It was an interesting. We got to glare jealously at the HUGE ocean-side houses - damn rich people. But I was comforted by the fact that although they can afford multi-million-dollar coastal homes, money can't buy them brains. This was exhibited by the fact that they chose to build next to or directly on top of fault lines, and also that the rock supporting their mansions was pillow basalt, which is constantly being devoured by the ocean. Further evidence was a house which boasted a backyard fence literally on the edge of a sharp cliff over the ocean. And the fence was about two feet tall. As if that wasn't dangerous enough, those daredevils chose to place a trampoline in their yard. Within three feet of the inexplicably short fence.
It was, admittedly, hard to gauge exact distances from my vantage point, but here's how it looked:

I did see a couple of kids jumping on the thing, but when we passed by again thirty minutes later, they were gone. Did they go inside? Or did they fall over the absurdly short fence?
Now that's natural selection at work.

In closing, I would just like to say that when you work this hard for a joke, it doesn't deserve to be laughed at:

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

ITS ME! The RO to the Zetta! Dude that was not a funny cartoon...i dont...like...get it! DUDE you have so many cool things, I am still tyring to learn this thing!

Lainey said...

Sweet mother of toast, if it isn't Talent! I so didn't know you were on Blogger! uh, how'd ya find me? stalker. hahah, I'm so glad you're commenting on my humble blog. I'm a-gonna go check out yours now.

Anonymous said...

Ems told me! She said that yours is funny...mine is boring! Nothing much going on :(