The world is flat, No word yet on the accuracy of evolution, though |
| *mipadi* |
 May 15 2006, 10:53 AM
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I used to work in a hardware store in the middle of central Pennsylvania. For those who don't know, central PA is a very rural area, and most of the customers at this hardware store were, in a word, rednecks. I used to work with this 22-year-old guy. He was the paint department manager. He was probably one of the most intelligent people I know. He went to college to study music, but after two years realized he didn't want to be a musician; so he dropped out and came home and got a dead-end job for this small hardware store that I eventually worked for.
He and I had the same problem: The hardware job didn't really challenge our talents very well. Most of the time we were bored, which resulted in our pulling numerous pranks on unsuspecting coworkers using the hardware at our disposal, as well as ruminating on various topics. One of his pasttimes was engaging in discussions with the customers, most of whom weren't as knowledgeable as they pretended to be. I no longer work at the hardware store, but that guy does. He's a manager at a different store now, but has the same clientele--as well as coworkers. I visited him and his family the other day (his daughter turned 1 yesterday) and he told me a story about a discussion he recently had with a customer and an underling at his store. The discussion was about evolution. He doesn't think evolution is accurate (a point we disagree on), and got into a discussion with a customer who did believe in evolution. The customer argued that evolution is an accepted science, to which he countered that, at one time, it was accepted that the earth was the center of the solar system and the world was flat. At this point, the coworker, in an attempt to sound smart, interjected, "I don't believe that." "Believe what?" my friend/former coworker asked. "That the world is flat." "Well, that's good. That theory was debunked several centuries ago." "I mean, if it was flat, then how did it get to be round?" |
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| *Libertie* |
May 15 2006, 11:15 AM
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LOL! When I read that the first time, I thought it sounded like something that I would've heard when I lived in Arkansas and northern Texas. The second time I caught the part you said about rednecks. :P That's great. At least the guy was trying to help.
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| *StanleyThePanda* |
May 15 2006, 11:43 AM
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 Wow... thats awesome
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May 15 2006, 03:49 PM
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 It eats you, starting with your bottom.  Group: Member Posts: 1,999 Joined: Jun 2005 Member No: 160,674 |
Haha! Wow that's hilarious! I think it's funny when people attempt to be smart, but fail miserably. Is that cruel for me to say so?
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May 15 2006, 06:14 PM
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 Yawn Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 9,530 Joined: Nov 2004 Member No: 65,772 |
oh man, that is priceless. Movie line if I ever heard one. haha. |
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May 15 2006, 06:17 PM
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 You'll find me in your dreams. Group: Official Member Posts: 8,536 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 114,010 |
I used to tell my little brother that if her walked to the ocean, took a boat, and sailed just so far...
Well, he doesn't believe me anymore. Not since he stole my book on the beginnings of America in first grade. ---- Wait, what am ?I supposed to be saying? Oh well. |
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May 15 2006, 06:45 PM
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Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 3,459 Joined: Dec 2005 Member No: 328,021 |
What a silly guy.
I love how people try to act smart. Like me! 
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May 15 2006, 06:46 PM
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AHAHAHAHAHAHHA!
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| *mona lisa* |
May 15 2006, 09:36 PM
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Hahahaha! Good one!
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May 16 2006, 01:57 AM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 1,450 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 98,407 |
I think what really is flat, is your chest. Shame for flat chests.
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May 16 2006, 02:04 AM
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 What the fack. Group: Official Member Posts: 6,164 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,519 |
Lol, thank you for the laugh.
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May 16 2006, 06:17 AM
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 cB Assassin Group: Official Member Posts: 10,147 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 7,672 |
OH CRAP! The World is round?
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May 16 2006, 07:43 AM
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hahahh great story. I used to live in PA..but not the central part, the part where everybody's normal. But now I live in a place where no one's normal..
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