On "No more Philly cheese-steaks for you!"

[Guest]

Hmmm. I don't think you've looked hard enough for crazy behavior in your own locale. My experience has been that it's here, everywhere you look. In fact, you don't even need to leave the forest to see it.

While I don't do regular duty in the forest, I do walk though it occasionally on my way to The Land of Lepidoptera. As I made my way through the edge of the forest the other day, heading towards LOL with an eye out for trolls, I spied a lumberjack hunkered in a corner. I am nearly certain he was musing about his shoe size. He sure as hell wasn't doing anything useful like sharpening his ax. There wasn't a tree down anywhere near him. In fact, there were several needing the ax.

Yes, most lumberjacks aren't bums. But they are mostly destined to be bums, or to have been bums, or are friends with bums. so I figure the comparison is apt.

Sincerely,
The Benny Hinn of Code.

[ScottWinston]

I remember this one time I was guiding a team of hikers through the forest. Even though we were walking straight through the forest of lumber jacks, there ended up being several really large trees in our way.

I was a bit of an expert on this one tree, so the King of the Lumberjacks asked if I'd maybe chop it down. I started at it, and was almost done when king found out what I was doing and told me to stop. He said that in order for me to chop down the tree a committee would need to meet several times and plans would have to be drawn up. At this point I was only two good chops away from felling it, but I didn't want to insult lumberjacks in their own land so I stopped.

Instead I had to spent a good part of a month creating a sophisticated scalfolding system to guide the hikers over the tree. Of course by then a lot of the hikers had already gone home.

What is irritating is because I built the scaffle on top of the trees that were already there, sometimes when lumber jacks chop down trees or change the lay of the land it screws up my scafolding. Then when I have to guide people over the trees the scaffolding is broke in some little way that takes me several hours to fix. The whole time I pretty much know its going to break again, and eventually become useless once someone chops down those trees.

[Rodd Steele]

Ok, I admit it. I do know several bums and a couple of winos.