Coconuts kill?
This T-shirt popped up this morning:
Duck!
The headine that linked to this was, of course, that "coconuts kill more Americans each year than terrorism." We must stop the killing.
Of course, the Joel Best publishing through the University of California Press says that they don’t. Or more precisely: "Do 150 people actually die in this way? It might seem possible—coconuts are hard and heavy, and they fall a great distance, so being bonked on the head presumably might be fatal. But who keeps track of coconut fatalities? The answer: no one."
The important question for this blog is "Why do these lingering ideas of paradise, and especially the dangers we face in paradise, linger?" We can’t get it out of our minds.
You can still buy your T-shirt for $22.99 at Zazzle in six colors.
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Posted on January 29, 2008
Filed Under Fasion, Palm Trees, Politics |
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