“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.”
George Carlin
HEROIC
“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.”
George Carlin
Love the pic – reminds me of our part of the world. Great quote too.
One of my favourite deer hunting ‘holes’ in a similar ‘wet & lush’ environment. High up above the tree line we have to slog it in then slog it out but its worth it – just thought I’d share. Places like this and the photo above always reminds me that God (the universe in general if you prefer) gets the last word.
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True story.
We had our driveway redone this year … old asphalt ripped up, new asphalt put down. Where the asphalt meets the paving stone border ……. there’s a PURPLE PETUNIA growing right through the fuckin’ pavement!! Really. I love that petunia.
@stucki
But you’ve killed it, didn’t you?
Heroic?
The ONLY thing I have ever seen growing up through the cracks in the concrete are weeds. I’ve never thought of them as being Heroic. I would describe them as being persistently annoying little bastards, not Heroic.
Sometimes “persistently annoying little bastards” turn out to be heroes. Nobody ever got to be a hero by getting along and going along.
Speaking of heroism, we just fought our way from Wisconsin to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It was brutal. Weather in the low 70s and sunny skies. A touch breezy.
I was constantly on guard for attacks from wolverines until I found out that there are no wolverines in here. Bummer. Then again, there are badgers. How does that work? Michigan is known as the Wolverine State and has no wolverines, but has badgers. On the other hand, it’s the University of Wisconsin Badgers, but Wisconsin is known as America’s Dairyland. Wolverines are still found in northern Minnesota. WTF?
SSS – make that drive in mid-January and tell me how it goes. You will freeze your little tootsie roll right off.
I kid you not, the Yoopers (upper peninsula folks) are the hardiest mothers I ever encountered. Strange bunch, but they are real survivors.
Also, in spring time the nasty biting flies come out. They are pure evil, and proof positive that God had a wicked sense of humpr.
ASIG – you do understand satire, correct? and further understand that George Carlin was a great practitioner of it?
“I kid you not, the Yoopers (Michigan upper peninsula folks) are the hardiest mothers I ever encountered. Strange bunch, but they are real survivors.”
—-Llpoh
True. Yoopers may be the hardiest stock of Americans in the country. The rural folks in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota who we talked to and knew we were travelling there told us so. When you get that information from those sources, it’s true.
We consider the UP balmy. Iowa is the tropics. Anywhere south of iowa is an inferno – until you get down by Tierra del Fuego.