It's a question: "So, it isn't?" Good one E.L.. Shapiro.
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
OK, So the earth ain't flat and the moon isn't made of green cheese and there are those terrible rumors that Santa Claus does not live at the North Pole!
This entire thread reminds me of the old shaggy dog story from back in my high school days. It was about a Madison Avenue advertising executive who gives up his lucrative career to travel the word and discover the real "meaning of life" ! The story goes on for hours about all his trials and tribulation. At the end of the adventure, near death, emaciated and struggling for breath, our hero is found clinging to the rim of an ice encrusted crevice atop the Himalayas where a great sage, guru and philosopher is said to reside and harbors the truth and the ultimate wisdom about the real meaning of life. He peers into the abyss and there stands a little old man with a long white beard. He begs the little man for the answer. The old fellow has enormous black eyes and and barely audible and cracking voice and exclaims "LIFE IS A BLACK BUTTERFLY"! Our hero is taken aback and goes into a long diatribe on how he gave up everything and sacrificed all just to receive this seeming absurd and inane reply. The old fella looks up sheepishly and says, SO IT ISN'T!
OK, So the earth ain't flat and the moon isn't mad... (
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