I got to talking with some little kids — who were doing this mountain bike path on strider bikes — and they had the idea of a snake on a bike. Their dad suggested a lizard. Yeah, a lizard on a bike makes sense... compared to a snake on a bike.
In the category of impossible things, some are more believable than others.
That makes me think of "Through the Looking Glass":
Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things."Are you trying to believe impossible things? Have you had a lot of practice? Are you keeping score? Are you up to 6? What are you eating for breakfast? For me, it's snake bacon. Snakon.
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!"
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“What are you eating for breakfast? For me, it's snake bacon.”
And I believe you are!
Yum! Rattle Snake Bacon, the bacon that bites you back! It is venomisly delicious!
Maverick Season 2 Episode 4, "The Belcastle Brand", has Bret serving snake meat to some Brits in the desert. And they liked it! No "snakon" though.
Tastes like chicken. And alligator.
Where I live, there are no venomous snakes. It changes the whole human/snake dynamic.
Are you trying to believe impossible things?
Apparently it's not very difficult to believe impossible things since most people do so regularly, to wit:
[most]"US believers see message of change from God in virus"
"Fifty-five percent of American believers say they feel at least somewhat that God will protect them from being infected."
Almost he same percentage believe that the WuCooties is a magical message telling people to change their ways...
(The link to the actual poll gives a message indicating that their website guy should change his ways: "HTTP Error 400.")
Copperhead or a mimic.
Northern water snake.
Went for sushi yesterday and had a few pieces of eel. Close enough?
Twitter poll, Are viruses alive? about 50/50 with virologists. Plus an amusing xkcd.
"In the category of impossible things, some are more believable than others."
That sentence brought to mind the fact that I've looked up the word "verisimilitude" a dozen times or so and never got to the point of actual, true understanding.
A snake needs a bicycle like a fish needs a bicycle.
A good deal of politics is trying to convince people that impossible things are possible. And that your opponents are incompetent because they didn't do it or say it can't be done.
xkcd Alive or Not
"A snake needs a bicycle like a fish needs a bicycle."
Good point.
But a lizard... a lizard really does need a bicycle.
Now I’m reminded of all those depositions where a question in the form of “Isn’t it possible that . . .” Was met with “Well counsel, anything is possible.”
Even dumber than “the document speaks for itself”, in that context.
We're off to see the lizard.
I just read this paragraph.
"Knowledge contains universally valid concepts, such as the durational conception of time that ethnosemantics have found in language after language, and which is virtually essential to the conduct of practical affairs. Knowledge reflects the world as it is. Ideology by contrast is relative, tending to be minimal wear institutional hierarchy is minimal where institutional hierarchy is minimal, and to be rich where institutional hierarchy as great-as an Hindu, caste-organized India. idology does not need to reflect the world as it is, and often obscures its realities"
I've eaten rattlesnake before and while being a little oily and wild tasting not bad.
Copperhead or a mimic.
That's why you have to flip it on its back to see its scales.
I scythed up the season's first snake in the grass the other day. The snake, looking surprised, winds up on the windrow piling up on the left. It takes him a while to recover from the straight-line configuration he's in to S-shape into a slither away.
Snake on the bike path
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Blogger Quaestor said...
Copperhead or a mimic.
Northern water snake.
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More likely a Fox snake. Need a much closer picture.
is it a poisonous snake
...or a toxic snake?
Looks like a chicken snake... if so, not poisonous. Good snake that kills rodents. They look scary and can grow to be very long.
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...
is it a poisonous snake
...or a toxic snake?
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It is neither. If dangerous it would be venomous.
Snakes aren't poisonous, they're venomous.
Well, two snakes are poisonous, Oregon garter snakes and Keelback snakes. But the rest of the "poisonous" snakes are actually venomous.
On a hike in Guatemala, I once encountered a coral snake on the path. I was with a group of 5-10 locals. We discretely passed it by.
It is definitely not a copperhead, their range doesn't include Wisconsin. I'd say it's most likely an Eastern Fox Snake.
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