Things To Ponder
 

Why do you often see a shoe lying on the side of the street?

It's from a hitch-hiker who got picked up too fast.

Because it would be shoeicide to lie in the middle of the street?

Oof. NB that was a vicious pun

that's where they land when they fall from airplanes.

The driver said "hop in".

if sheep can mosey around in the rain, why do i have to dry clean my wool pants?

what does cheese say when it gets it's picture taken?

I wanna know why you see shoes hanging from power lines.

It's the fuckin' hooligans, I tell you.

I wonder that too. I used to think it was a Wag the Dog homage, but now I don't think so. Anyone know?

a cheap alternative to weights on the line? Imagine the power company going to Goodwill and buying a bunch of used shoes.

probably just dumb kids though

My stepdad wrote a song about lonely shoes like that.

It's probably my favoritest song, evar.

Huuman! :D

(insert montage of the Devil explaining to Joan of Arc how the sword could have ended up in the field for her to find)

:)

Ouch.

Does the little mermaid wear an algaebra?

lol

I wanna know why you see shoes hanging from power lines
 

Multiple reasons...The most common is explanation is that drugs are sold nearby (Crack, heroin...take your pick...it's advertising.)

Second is that someone has died there and that it's a memorial....

Third, somebody graduated from school....or military basic training

All are listed as possible wacky urban legends...as it happens in rural areas as well as in the cities.

drugs are sold nearby? Nearby being a relative word, I think that's pretty much everywhere. Interesting, though.

so strange . . a little netsurfing shows a lot of these reasons. But have you ever done it? or known someone who has flung shoes?

Hey, he was an exchange student in my high school, but he spelled it "Hoo Haas Flung Choo." He was a Chinese-Norwegian.

Apparently, there's a fashion for throwing them on trees too....

Shoe Trees

If something was miss-spelled in a dictionary how would we know?

well, if it has three "s"s in a row, you can be pretty sure it's misspelled.

We get shoes on top of bus shelters here (you can see them from the top of double deckers). Definitely those pesky kids.

My thing to ponder - when someone says, "Can I help you?" why is help the last thing you'll usually get?

Why is it that when someone finds something they've lost, and when asked about it, they'll say "It was in the last place I looked."?

In my high school, all the seniors in marching band would throw their (purchased uniform) shoes over a line in front of the school on the last day of classes. It's as good a tradition as any, it's not like they'd ever need those shoes again... The janitors always took them down within a day or two though.

i've totally done it. we all do it. everybody does it.

. . . even though they say you'll go blind . . .

I only threw a shoe once. Never again.

I was in the first year of school, so 4-5. We were going for a walk in the Convent garden when my teacher saw a shoe by the side of the bushes. It looked long abandoned, an old tramp's shoe. She threw it further into the bushes - this was in the days before recyling. Now something in my little anarchist soul rejoiced at this - shoes, which had to be cared for, not scuffed, which WERE EXPENSIVE could be thrown into bushes! You couldn't even do that with litter!

A few days later on the playing field, I found my chance. A whole pile of abandoned shoes! I took one at random and lobbed it over the hedge into the allotments beyond. It really flew. Sadly, they belonged to a group of older girls doing handstands nearby. I was completely unable to explain myself and fell back on a lie suggested by the girl whose shoe I had liberated, "Did an older girl tell you to do it?" I was still in trouble, but so genuinely baffled that they let me off lightly.

Sorry Catherine Gordon. I honestly didn't know it was wrong, but I did do it on purpose.

If you keep trying to prove Murphy's law, will something go wrong?

Where do the letters go when you hit the backspace or delete key?

If a man says something in the woods and there is no woman around to hear him say it....is he still wrong?

Let me ask the wife. ;)

The Dead Letter Office.

No no no, I mena you are typing a paper or writing an email and you misspell a word or change your writing. You delete and retype it - where do those letters deleted go???

Most of these abandoned shoes are juvenile trainers/sneakers. It's kids alright the little shods.

My brothers used to hide and get rid of their shoes in a poorly thought out attempt to evade school..........

My husband tells me a different story of why the shoes are there sometimes (in urban communities).......And I couldn't believe it! And had never thought of it!!

well??? are you gonna share?

I took this picture last week in Puerto Vallarta, MX.

why isn't there a bunch of spam offering creams to shrink one's vagina?

Why do some clothes say "One Size Fits All", when clearly that's not true?

Because men don't have vaginas.

Because spammers think outside the box.

Because it's on the inside, out of sight.

see below

Do gay men go for anal bleaching?

gay men and also women who like a bit of arse play now and then. Haven't you ever wondered about those people in porno's who don't have a little brownie? ;)

Over here, we don't throw shoes over power lines (well we do, but anyway) we tie two toads together with copper wire and attempt to electocute them. I suppose being hit with high voltage is probably preferable to being bashed to death with a cricket bat...but who knows.

why is it not cool for guys to ask for directions if they're lost (or to, you know--look at a map); but it's okay to spend money on a fancy gadget that beeps and lights up to show your exact position on the earth?

Because then they don't have to ask where they are?...

I'm new to the cellar. You will have to cut me some slack if I post to old threads. Holy cow is there a lot to read.

A long time ago, I worked in a store that sold a lot of shoes. At the end of the day, there would always be at least one shoe, as many as four or five shoes without mates.

I don't know if the other shoe is on the side of the road. Maybe the guy who is missing a shoe, came into our store to get another. I really don't know.

I do suspect the phenomena is related.

Whut duzat have to with shoes?

The Void.

Why are they called apartments when they are stuck together?

nothing, why?

Maybe he's just not a post whore like the rest of us Drax. Perhaps he tries to include all his points in the one post instead of a different post for every point. ;)

Cuz you included it in a reply to my shoe question.

Did you make it past those two sentences?

:corn:

Did you bring the 3-D glasses Ali?

Actually, I did read the whole post.