They do conveniently go out like lights, don't they?
I hate that cliché. Apparently you have to hit someone *just right* to knock them out like that.
I've gotten concussed a couple times, due to being prone to fainting under the right conditions. I fainted in church and was standing as far away from the adobe church wall as possible to ensure I'd achieve maximum velocity while still hitting the wall. When I woke up, it was like a stereotypical TV show. I saw a sea of faces around me and someone said "I'm a doctor. Are you okay?" I was bundled into my aunt's Mercedes and taken home. I only just managed to hold back from booting until the car door was open and I could get my head out. I seemed to be recovering okay but a couple weeks later when I got my wisdom teeth taken out, it brought back the concussion symptoms and I was in massive misery. It was really weird how it brought back those symptoms. I think my skull is actually shaped differently than it was before that concussion.
That said, I'm actually amazed how tough the human skull is. It takes quite a lot of bonking while protecting its precious cargo.
Telegrams still exist, among other reasons, as a way for individual and corporate investors to make sure their brokers don't screw them. There are various ways a dishonest broker can diddle a client by claiming not to have received a phone call or fax; a delivered telegram is accepted by most courts as legally binding proof of delivery of the message. Of course most companies sending telegrams for such reasons use an email-to-telegram service. Similarly, most brokers recieve telegrams in the form of emails. So, while traditional telegrams do still exist, the majority of telegrams sent are emails routed through a telegraph company to obtain proof of delivery.
On edit - Ok so I missed the post that started that conversation. Apparently traditional telegrams don't still exist. But I'm betting MCI's telegraph-by-email service has not shut down for the reason mentioned above.
I was mostly okay until the Jaegermeister. I mean, I went to krav quite cheerily and everything.
Gar! Thank you for the knowing!
I was mostly okay until the Jaegermeister.
Heh. That's like a "this too shall pass" kind of sentence, expressing some kind of universal truth.
Welcome to the world, Olivia!
ABC is a great song. Poor MJ. So much gone wrong.
That said, I'm actually amazed how tough the human skull is.
I do recall having a debate in college, which is when one should debate such things, over what evolutionary advantages there might be in having your nerve-center be in the middle of your body, like under your ribcage, rather than in its own case right up top.
On the upside, it's hard to cut a guy's head off if his head isn't a separate part of his body. On the down side, where would the eyes go?
This all came about because of a line in
Othello,
where there are supposed to be (among other critters) "anthropophagi" who have their heads in the middle of their bodies, and eat men.
Don't we have a lizard-brain-thingy in the guts somewhere?
On the upside, it's hard to cut a guy's head off if his head isn't a separate part of his body. On the down side, where would the eyes go?
The eyes really should be on something that rotates. Stalks are easier to cut off than heads.
And, really, how often are people attacked and decapitated? I'd wager most of the attacks are to centre mass anyway--cops don't shoot to the head because it's harder to hit than the torso. People get stabbed in the torso more than the head too.
