A special kind of stupid
So just to encourage a bit of fun blog traffic...
What is the stupidest thing you have ever seen anyone do?
My sophomore year at the U, I worked at the Michigan Union Wendy's. Anyone who has had the pleasure of working in the greasy arts know that during downtime, ridiculous conversation generally ensues. On one spectacularly slow night we were all playing "I bet you can't..." which , for anyone who is curious, is essentially the idiot's version of "Truth or Dare". This guy named Mike was just in the zone..pumped, hyped, whatever...ready for anything. Johnny (on of the funniest guys ever) bet him that he couldnt finish a 32oz Frosty in less than one minute. Boy he sure showed him. He was sent home 30 minutes later with the most intensive head pain ever.
Like I said...a special kind of stupid.
What is the stupidest thing you have ever seen anyone do?
My sophomore year at the U, I worked at the Michigan Union Wendy's. Anyone who has had the pleasure of working in the greasy arts know that during downtime, ridiculous conversation generally ensues. On one spectacularly slow night we were all playing "I bet you can't..." which , for anyone who is curious, is essentially the idiot's version of "Truth or Dare". This guy named Mike was just in the zone..pumped, hyped, whatever...ready for anything. Johnny (on of the funniest guys ever) bet him that he couldnt finish a 32oz Frosty in less than one minute. Boy he sure showed him. He was sent home 30 minutes later with the most intensive head pain ever.
Like I said...a special kind of stupid.
posted by wowgirl at 6:04 AM
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In the words of one of the greatest philosophers of our time: "My momma always says that stupid is as stupid does". It is difficult for me to narrow the list down to the stupidest thing that I have every seen. But most of them happened when I've seen men trying to impress women. BBT
I left my wallet in a gas station restroom=))))).
I've seen a guy dive into water head first without checking for depth of the water or obstacles. Pure stupidity.
I saw a guy stand on a box on a chair with wheels on it, to unstick a divider curtain between to patient beds (the curtain hangs on a track on the ceiling). Boy was that stupid of me.
sam, sam , sam. Gotta love it.
Once I had a friend who could not get his snow blower to stop running. I, jokingly, suggested taking a leak on the spark plug. He did it and got teh shock of his life. The snow blower did stop running. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I hope he was able to have children.
I like that, Sassy. I always kick myself when I let my kids have chocolate in the van. Gracie likes to just hang onto her food. More than once I have considered suing M&Ms for false advertising...I never learn:)
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I saw a stupid event on TV. The show is called Myth Busters. On this one episode they were attempting to prove/disprove whether or not a chinese emperor was first into space. Here is the rundown:
Ming Dynasty Astronaut
This myth comes from the story of a Ming dynasty (~1500 AD) astrologer who strapped 47 rockets to a chair, lit them off, and vanished in a puff of smoke -- records claim he was launched into space.
To reconstruct the rockets of that time, they found some 3/4" bamboo poles to build 1' rockets. The rockets were filled with homebrewed gunpowder (charcoal/sulfur/saltpeter) mimicking the historical ingredients. The bamboo was also wrapped in twine for strength.
Adam had a lot of trouble cooking up the bamboo. Hoping for as much as 50 pounds of thrust out of each rocket, his first mixture got a grand total of... a half a pound of thrust. Changing the ratios around, there was shot after shot of wimpy rocket firing off. Adam's best only managed 0.77 pounds, so at last they called in rocketeers from the JATO myth for help (who had a mixture that could manage 5 pounds of thurst per rocket).
For the experiment in the Mohav desert, they built two elaborate rocket chair thrones: one to be launched according to myth, one to be launched with more modern rockets (imotors?) that had 50 pounds of thrust each.
The first chair with the 'authentic' rockets pretty much reproduced the myth. There was a big explosion of smoke leaving a void where there was once Buster and throne, except the throne was blown to smithereens and Buster was a smoking heap on the ground, instead of in space (they may need to find him new skin now). The heat from the adjancent rockets was too much and the rockets exploded.
The second chair produced different results. After getting a couple feet of liftoff, the throne flipped over and the rockets proceeded to push Buster into the ground (breaking a leg).
busted
I guess I can chime in with a child-involved brain fart. I'm sure I'll have a million of those, and Tonia could certainly fill you in with any and everything...
But one time I was walking out of the house and Tanner wanted on my shoulders so I threw him up over my head. Unfortunatly we were right inside the door jam at the time... :( That guy is lucky he has a thick scull! ouch. A special kind of stupid, no?
oh yea...
And sometimes I just cant help watching Mythbusters,...or as I call it "The Sam's dream job show"
I just watched the swingset 360 myth episode...too funny
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