20+knot currents 4 minute survival rate in the water

Post #190,882 by daemon 1/19/05 8:10:16 PM Reply	20+knot currents 4 minute survival rate in the water by the time someone notices a kyak drifting upside down and gets a boat out, yer toast regards, daemon that way too many Iraqis conceived of free society as little more than a mosh pit with grenades. ANDISHEH NOURAEE clearwater highschool marching band [link\|http://www.chstornadoband.org/\|http://www.chstornadoband.org/]
Post #190,886 by Another Scott 1/19/05 8:35:09 PM Reply	My luck, it would happen that Jonah 1:17 would be repeated. [link\|http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jonah\|Jonah Chapter 1]. ;-) Being unable to breathe is very unpleasant. Panic is such a natural reaction. I have memories at a swimming pool of trying to swim when I was a tot, heading off underwater - trying to breathe underwater, being lifted out by my arm by someone. I don't know if I'd like to go out that way. Maybe something on land. It might be better [link\|http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/LostFace/fire.html\|to build a fire].... I'm hoping that government and society will be more tolerant of the end of life by the time my time comes. Which I fully expect to be 40+ years from now. :-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #190,892 by daemon 1/19/05 9:33:32 PM Reply	well they have orcas and belugas one is too small and the other would find you a nice snack, remember I would already be incontinent and drooling so wouldnt notice the liquid air. regards, daemon that way too many Iraqis conceived of free society as little more than a mosh pit with grenades. ANDISHEH NOURAEE clearwater highschool marching band [link\|http://www.chstornadoband.org/\|http://www.chstornadoband.org/]
Post #190,920 by tuberculosis 1/20/05 12:45:02 AM Reply	Or there's this [link\|http://www.shortstories.computed.net/londonlaw.html\|http://www.shortstor...et/londonlaw.html] Ooh look, free literature. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #190,946 by Another Scott 1/20/05 8:56:42 AM Reply	Thanks. [link\|http://www.gregfolkert.net/pics/iwethey/GreenEyedLady.jpeg\|Colleen] is a bit like that when she's hungry. ;-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #190,928 by Ashton 1/20/05 5:32:52 AM Reply	To Build a Fire 99% sure that was also the exact title of a somewhat abbreviated version of a similar mishap, a story which is among my earliest recollections of reading ahead (we never got to it in class, nor several others I thought more memorable than the assigned stuff). Vocabularly was a bit simpler, probably a 5th grade? reader used in 3-4th grade. An early, fortuitous Lesson: Read. Ahead. Screw 'assignments', where feasible - or try to work out a deal with Teach to skip the pabulum. (This was, of course quite prior to my realizing that the central theme of many lives seems to be Ohhh... SHIT! Maybe several times before the final one.)
Post #190,942 by Another Scott 1/20/05 8:42:30 AM Reply	The earlier version was simpler. Maybe that's it? [link\|http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/Uncollected/tobuildafire.html\|Here]: This is the first, more juvenile version of a story later published for an adult audience in The Century Magazine in August 1908. TBaF really struck a cord with me. I've only read it 3-4 times but in the last ~ 30 years I can still remember quite a bit of it word for word. Cheers, Scott.
Post #190,985 by tuberculosis 1/20/05 12:48:30 PM Reply	Sure is great to have free literature in the public domain Too bad there won't ever be any more of it. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #191,049 by Ashton 1/21/05 4:51:28 AM Reply	Probably it's as close as I can remember Assuming this title was \ufffd Jack London (Wolf House is just a few miles from here) - I have to suppose that the story couldn't have been Bowdlerized by a textbook pub. But the little grey cells fail me re the exact ending, with the fistful of matches. deja Brrrrr

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