Comments on Polybloggimous: How Much Does It Cost To Have An Elephant Run Into...

(runs in) (places a football, baseball, basketbal...

2009-06-28T22:46:21.325-04:00

(runs in)

(places a football, baseball, basketball, soccer ball, volley ball, and bowling ball in the corners of the room)

TAG! YOU'RE IT!

(steals the flag and runs away)

Yick. I'm familiar with the elephant poo issue...

2009-06-28T15:41:52.760-04:00

Yick. I'm familiar with the elephant poo issue, have a cousin that was with Ringling Bros Circus for many years. They also employ a team of pooper scoopers to follow the critters around during performances.

Lived in a subdivision one time that had a duck population explosion. Everyone that lived near one of the many "water features" had a duck shit problem!

And of course my dog liked to chase the ducks into the water, so would traipse right through the duck shit.

WendyB_09

Tatyana, The Film was cute, but the characters we...

2009-06-28T11:57:11.078-04:00

Tatyana,

The Film was cute, but the characters were all a little two-dimensional.

HAHAHAHAHAHA. I swear I crack me up.

Wendy, They were battling a serious goose-shit pr...

2009-06-28T11:49:17.714-04:00

Wendy,

They were battling a serious goose-shit problem at the time. Since we had people with shovels and pails following our elephant around everywhere, I doubt that was the issue.

how do you keep an elephant from running into a la...

2009-06-28T11:10:27.970-04:00

how do you keep an elephant from running into a lake?

red tape.

Probably were more concerned with the environmental impact of elephant poo in the lake. It's pretty potent stuff.

WendyB_09

Again? How many exercises in futility this blog ho...

2009-06-28T07:58:11.898-04:00

Again? How many exercises in futility this blog holds?

There is a semi-decent Russian joke, that ends thusly:
"and little hedgehogs got pricked, cried, but continued to eat cactus".

That's we and the government. Or fill in any other pair.
Did you like the Film...?

Tatyana, Trying to read a moral into most of what...

2009-06-27T21:31:01.357-04:00

Tatyana,

Trying to read a moral into most of what I write here would be an exercise in futility.

You know, Nathan, what you do almost sounds ridicu...

2009-06-27T20:49:17.072-04:00

You know, Nathan, what you do almost sounds ridiculous enough to be government work...

We were supposed to have a much advertised "i...

2009-06-27T18:53:34.152-04:00

We were supposed to have a much advertised "infinity edge pool" on the 7th level deck of my last project. It wouldn't have that seamless appearance with a body of water behind, but rather look like it floated above the city.

The problem was that the public health and safety department wanted a surface all the way around the pool onto which someone might rescue an unconscious person (nevermind that the pool was a mere 15' wide and someone might just as well extract the body on the other side of the pool). So, we had to have a ledge around the "infinity edge" that quite diminished the effect.

[eyeroll] Ah, governmental agencies...

The post reminded me of: Part I (note @8:20 min)

And part II

Exciting! I think I want to work in the movies, be...

2009-06-27T16:58:36.676-04:00

Exciting! I think I want to work in the movies, behind the scenes.

[to the moral of your story: are you advocating "limited government and reduced bureaucracy?" Heh, as the man says]

Tatyana