Wednesday 20130508 - Y'All can suck it

[LeNeve]

that looks like it hurt

it's just a cartoon. I think the roadrunner will be okay

[Chip]

Every child who has ever seen a cartoon featuring Wile E Coyote and Road Runner has to have wondered if poor Wile E ever had a fair shot at catching the Road Runner. According to Mark Lockwood’s Basic Texas Birds: A Field Guide, with or without Wile. E. Coyote chasing it, a Greater Roadrunner can reach speeds of 20 MPH (32 KPH) while a Coyote can reach speeds of up to 43 MPH (69 KPH). Clearly, in an all out footrace, the roadrunner would be dinner.

Of course, a couple facts get in the way of Wile E Coyote snacking on Road Runner. First of all, roadrunners have an amazing ability to use ground cover as they run and they rarely move in a straight line. Wild coyotes can’t expect roadrunners to actually stick to the road when their life is on the line! There is also the really pesky fact that roadrunners can fly. They prefer not to but if a coyote were about to catch a roadrunner that roadrunner would take to the wing and be gone!

Finally, despite what Warner Brothers would like you to believe, there has never been a documented instance of a coyote catching a roadrunner.** Shocking, no? Especially considering that coyotes are known to eat pretty much everything! It’s as if all the cartoons I watched as a child were just made up scenarios in pretend worlds with no actual relation to reality and no practical use whatsoever. Oh well.

It would seem that despite the greater speed of the coyote, and, considering its adaptability to multiple habitats, what is likely a greater native intelligence, that the roadrunner will somehow always stay one step ahead of its cartoon nemesis. To that, there is only one thing to say.

Meep-Meep!

http://10000birds.com/how-fast-can-a-roadrunner-run.htm

Haha.

Next thing they'll tell us is that no coyote has ever a missile with a net on it at a roadrunner.

[Chip]

Huh.

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[LeNeve]

I've never seen a road runner in real life. I see coyotes all the time though.

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:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :high5:

[JDubb]

Huh.

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[LeNeve]

Huh.

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da fuq?

[NussieT]

Huh.

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da fuq?

That's the second fucked up student cartoon I've seen this week. I went to school with a kid that did one for school and its just as fucked

[NussieT]

This is the one the kid I went to school with did... Phttp://http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=-S...Sl_tQ9lwFI

[Derick]

linky no worky

[Chip]

Should I stir things up?

40.3 Automatic Suspension – Category II - Any player who deliberately applies physical force to an official in any manner (excluding actions as set out in Category I), which physical force is applied without intent to injure, or who spits on an official,shall be automatically suspended for not less than ten (10) games.

[Derick]

This is the one the kid I went to school with did... Phttp://http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=-S...Sl_tQ9lwFI

[youtube]-Sl_tQ9lwFI[/youtube]

fixerated

[NussieT]

This is the one the kid I went to school with did... Phttp://http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=-S...Sl_tQ9lwFI

[youtube]-Sl_tQ9lwFI[/youtube]

fixerated

Thanks. I was working on it.

[Chip]

I think these cartoons are getting me high.

[Derick]

I think these cartoons are getting me high.

or it could be the weed

[JDubb]

This is the one the kid I went to school with did... Phttp://http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=-S...Sl_tQ9lwFI

[youtube]-Sl_tQ9lwFI[/youtube]

fixerated

Thanks. I was working on it.