31 May
2010
31 May
'10
6:12 a.m.
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Andrew Burton
<aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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From: "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Anyone off to VCF-UK
There is a woman that became famous on YouTube, by using only her *feet* to
peel a banana:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu1PY8PIrYA
I haven't watched the video yet, so perhaps she cheated somehow?
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
That is deeply bizarre. (And about as sexy as a car accident.)
But she's not actually very good, and she grunts and moans a lot with
the effort. I believe I could do better myself!
Read some of the stories of armless people for true podial dexterity.
Carl Unthan was one of the most famous, who not only played violin and
gave concerts, but he often would deliberately cut part way through a
string so that it snapped in mid-performance, so that he could
demonstrate how easily he could re-string it.
http://www.phreeque.com/carl_unthan.html
Unthan gave lectures to limbless soldiers returning from WW1,
demonstrating to them how able an armless man could be.
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On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Fred Cisin
<cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 2010, dwight elvey wrote:
>> The only problem is that decimal don't fit the physical world well.
>> Thing in the physical world are fraction of powers of fractions.
>> 1/8 and 1/32 make more sense in the physical world.
>> Decimal is just what you learned in school.
>
> . . . and based on the very arbitrary basis of number of fingers.
>
> Q: then why not base 20?
> A: because the more dominant (agressive) cultures came from climates
where
feet were
kept bundled up for warmth, and stank too much to expose them
publicly
:?D Like it!
Mind you, I don't think I've met anyone with the flexibility and
control to individually raise and lower toes to count on...