“It is 3,000 feet to the Bottom
And no undertaker to meet you
TAKE NO CHANCES.
There is a difference
Between bravery and just plain
ORDINARY FOOLISHNESS.”
Yosemite National Park, 1915. Photograph from Special Collections UC Santa Cruz (click photo to embiggen)
via HistoryInPictures on Twitter
So why did they take the sign down? Too many fools complaining about it?
Storytime. When I was a wee pre-teen lad, my parents stuffed me in the car and drove from Chicago to the Grand Canyon. We get out at a fenced off look-out and looked-out. I followed the fence line to where it turned to a tree and rock line and kept walking. Suddenly there were no trees or rocks and I was staring at a 1000+ foot drop off, straight down. My parents caught up behind me about 10 feet away (they wouldn’t go any further), mom starts yelling and I was frozen, absolutely petrified to turn back or move at all. Those 2 or 3 steps I had to take to get back to safety was damn near impossible and an event that will stick with me forever. Be safe, my friends, and watch your kids.
That’s a great place to utter those famous last words: Hey, watch this!
Even Steven,
You forgot, “Here, hold ma beer.”
I fell here back when I was a college student and ended up on crutches for a couple weeks.
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It happened in the gravel parking lot you can see toward the top of the photo while I was throwing the Frisbee with some buddies. I even spilled my beer.
Oh my heart! Won’t catch me there.Just the Pic’s make me dizzy.
With a little modification that sign
should be at every polling place this fall.