14th April 2010, 11:47 PM
Remodelled not as a hero but as a tragic greek protagonist, yeah he works that way I suppose. Unfortunatly that's not the way most people see him. He's always stuck in there with the likes of Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill.
You know, when I think about it, I figure a century from now kids will be reading about all the tall tales of our modern folk hero, Chuck Norris, laughing at how silly they were. I mean when you read about Paul Bunyon creating the Nevada Desert because he chopped down all the trees there, well I wonder if they didn't just tell these things to each other as that era's version of Chuck Norris jokes.
You know, when I think about it, I figure a century from now kids will be reading about all the tall tales of our modern folk hero, Chuck Norris, laughing at how silly they were. I mean when you read about Paul Bunyon creating the Nevada Desert because he chopped down all the trees there, well I wonder if they didn't just tell these things to each other as that era's version of Chuck Norris jokes.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)