Quicker than a squirrel!

[sallytuppence]

Did you realize that Tarzan of the Apes ends in Wisconsin? And that Tarzan doesn't get Jane at the end? He swings through the trees (in the forests of Wisconsin) to save Jane from a forest fire, but Jane's betrothed to John Clayton. He could reveal that he's Lord Greystoke and have Jane for his own, but he doesn't because he's the Noble Savage

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[gregvaneekhout]

But I like hearing about your random life! Except for finding out you're still sick. That is major suckage.

And I love idea of Shaolin physicists, toiling and training in their Device-filled temples.

[sallytuppence]

I've showed you a picture of The Device before, haven't I?

http://ostc.physics.uiowa.edu/~prineas/facilitiesandtechniques.htm

It is kung fu.

Heh. Because it's been so cold, J's been out at his nitrogen tank (the Device eats liquid nitrogen) with a heat gun (like an industrial strength hair dryer) thawing out the valves, which get iced over. This is what grad students are for, I tell him, but he insists on wielding the heat gun himself.

[gregvaneekhout]

Oh, yeah, The Device is really badass. I can see why the master wouldn't want to leave its care to the disciples.

[_stranger_here]

Wow. The way those big silver eyeballs stare fixedly ahead at the ends of their rigid eyestalks... it's chilling. I would definitely want to be packing a heat gun with that thing on the loose.

[birdhousefrog]

I love random.

Sorry about the ear/sinus. You've been under the weather a fair amount this winter. I'll send some virtual mock-chicken soup.

Oz

[sallytuppence]

It's the weather puts me under the weather. How dumb am I, going to a recital when I can't hear out of my left ear? *sigh*

Thanks for the tofu soup!

[sallytuppence]

Well, I don't know. Kung fu seems to be a...state of mind, more than anything.

[gregvaneekhout]

The definition at our school is "mastery through time and effort." So, John must indeed have strong physics kung.

[cocoskeeper]

I live in Wisconsin. Tarzan swings by every now and then. I admit, I feel sorry for him during our winters. Lioncloths do little to keep out the cold. Well, that's what I've heard Jane say is his excuse, anyway....

;-D

[sallytuppence]

Heh. See, we were trying to figure out what Tarzan was swinging on. Oak trees, maybe?

[cocoskeeper]

Oak. Maple... Whatev'.

As for the vines?

Live linked squirrels.

Yep--I'm not kidding. It ain't pretty, either, but apparently, it works.

The squirrels walk away from it a bit discombobulated, but otherwise unharmed.

[asatomuraki]

LOL! In the days before the babies, I used to stalk used book stores collecting old Edgar Rice Burroughs paperbacks. They are great pulpy fun, though I hesitate to call them a guilty pleasure (as one of my old friends did). I have several Tarzan books and many of the Mars books in storage. Not sure why I kept them, except for my natural reluctance to part with anything book-shaped. :D Luckily, I haven't had to make any executive vetos on reading material yet. :D

I think their are many, many Tarzan books (though I only have a few), but that he does eventually get Jane. Or, um... my guess is that his love for her is the major impetus for his adventures. In any case, Burroughs certainly dragged his hero's impossible love for 'the incomparable Dejah Thoris' on for a very long time, using it (I think) as a continuing hook.

By the way, I have noticed that several of the Mars and Tarzan books are available through Project Gutenberg.

[sallytuppence]

J read all the Tarzan books when he was a kid, and loved them, and the copy he read to Theo is old. He says he remembers them being better...

[asatomuraki]

Heh. Yeah. I wouldn't call them great lit, but they were, erm, unique. I've only read the first Tarzan book, but I'd have to say that the idea of Tarzan was more potent than the execution. :)