Well, I finally got the son of a gun up and running. If you’ve been subscribing to us – you’re going to have to change your feed – Really sorry – and until I get everything sorted out through itunes, you’re not going to be able to get us there.
In this episode jerame and I talk about OJ Simpson’s latest antics, and get into the finer qualities of such great actors as Jim Neighbors, Andy Griffith, and Raymond Burr.
I’m willing to believe the Bosnian Couple story. Why not? It’s a small world. Too bad they didn’t have the happy ending twist, though. You know, they meet at the bar (or whatever) and realize what’s happened.. suddenly they are in love again, blah blah blah……
Btw, “The Drawing of the Three” takes a while to get going. Keep reading. It’s a great book in a fabulous series. Another good story is “The Kite Runner.”
Comment by Dana — September 24, 2007 @ 6:33 pm
Oh, come on, the Bosnian couple is completely inconceivable. But, it does make for a good story – but, I’m still not willing to buy it hook, line and sinker…
You’re right about “The Drawing of the Three,” and to be honest, it has been so long since I read it I can’t remember how easy it was to get into.
Comment by flowersjustin — September 24, 2007 @ 6:39 pm
All I’m saying is I ended up sitting on a park bench in the middle of a field in Switzerland when up came a girl I’d never met before. We started a conversation and it turned out that she was best friends with my boss at my former job back in Fort Worth, TX.
MY POINT – Crazy shit happens! FLOWERS!
Comment by Dana — September 24, 2007 @ 6:41 pm
That may be true – but, it would be more like the Bosnian couple if it turned out that you had been lovers. You may have been connected in a Kevin Bacon sense, but the couple in Bosnia were a one of a kind relationship.
If we want to go by the odds, we might say that there are x number of people in the world that are friends with your former boss, and that out of those friends 1 of them happened to be in the same part of the world as you.
In the couple’s case the x is always one. The odds are almost insurmountable – and then you throw in the fact that they could only ever communicate with each other when the other one isn’t online… Can you imagine how many times they said to each other, “God, we’re never online at the same time.” And imagine them trying to carry on a chat…
Comment by flowersjustin — September 24, 2007 @ 6:55 pm
Yes but by your own words… “The odds are ALMOST insurmountable.” Even you can’t say that it never could have happened… And with that there is a possibility no matter how small that it did happen. so Suck it.
“inconceivable
you keep using that word… I do not think it means what you think it means.” Princess Bride
Comment by jerame — September 24, 2007 @ 7:10 pm
Ok, so let’s all take the “it could have happened so it most certainly did” tack. I personally think it’s ridiculous. Did you ever hear of Occam’s razor?
You can look it up if not, but in short it says that the simplest explanation is the correct explanation, and in this case the simplest explanation is that it’s fiction.
Comment by flowersjustin — September 24, 2007 @ 7:13 pm