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Each of us is but a grain of sand on a beach. How lame. Can you think of a more humorous analogy?

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Posted - July 15, 2017
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  • 13071
    Each one of us is a grain of sand in the sky? Thats pretty lame. ;D
      July 15, 2017 3:39 PM MDT
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  • 44525
    Yeah...and very funny.
      July 17, 2017 7:06 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    Thanks Element 99. ;D
      July 17, 2017 7:48 AM MDT
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  • 17560
    We are but a drop of water on a big hot rock.  We take up little room and are here but for a second. This post was edited by Thriftymaid at July 17, 2017 7:33 AM MDT
      July 15, 2017 4:03 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    Now THATS lame. hahhahah ;D
      July 15, 2017 4:04 PM MDT
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  • 17560
    Oh, it was supposed to be funny.  OK, I'll think of another one.  Sizzling on a hot rock is not funny.......
      July 15, 2017 4:09 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    Just leave off the second sentence. That will make it pretty lame. lol
      July 15, 2017 4:11 PM MDT
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  • 44525
    It is both lame and funny.
      July 17, 2017 7:07 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    Hey wait, your answer isnt lame anymore. hahahahhahahahha Thriftymaid you stinker you. hahhahahha
      July 15, 2017 4:06 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    It's lame because you screwed it up with your disdain of poetic language and its effect.  So, there is no need to be humorous.

    How many grains of sand are there?  Think of that. That is more your kind of thought.


    If you want humor, I guess the idea that each of us, considering the size of the Universe, is but a pimple on the face of the Lord.  The Lord's face is the Universe.  We are a pimple.  

    Are the tears rolling down your face? 

    Oh well.  You are right, this idea sucks.

      July 15, 2017 4:11 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    According to CERN scientists, a single grain of sand, (or any material) possesses enough nuclear energy within to power a city for, perhaps a year?  We use small amounts of Uranium (refined into Plutonium) currently for powering our nuke power plants. Just think, you just flushed a world's supply of energy down the toilet! 
      July 15, 2017 4:16 PM MDT
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  • 44525
    Using a mass of a grain of sand at approximately .0001g, it would yield approximately 2.8 million Kw-hr.
      July 17, 2017 7:19 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    Thank you.  I never was good with math, but I could blow up model cars with firecrackers when I was young. BAM!
      July 17, 2017 1:01 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    I like this.  Good. 
      July 17, 2017 7:34 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    no, i cant think of anything
      July 15, 2017 5:36 PM MDT
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  • 5354
    Shakespeare make a pretty good shot at it:

    (from As You Like It, spoken by Jaques)
     
                                            All the world’s a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
    Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
    And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
    And shining morning face, creeping like snail
    Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
    Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
    Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
    Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
    Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
    Seeking the bubble reputation
    Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
    In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,
    With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
    Full of wise saws and modern instances;
    And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
    Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
    With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
    His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide
    For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
    Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
    And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
    That ends this strange eventful history,
    Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
    Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

      July 15, 2017 6:54 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    I love that soliloquy. 

    Life is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing.  That is the best line ever.
      July 15, 2017 7:08 PM MDT
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  • Google "1601" by Mark Twain. A humor classic set in Shakespeare's time and language.
      July 17, 2017 3:41 PM MDT
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  • 44525
    Shakespeare sucked.
      July 17, 2017 7:10 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    First you ignore my answer.

    THEN you attack my COMMENT?

    I'm reporting you.
      July 17, 2017 7:35 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    He's right, Shakespeare sucks!
      July 17, 2017 1:03 PM MDT
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  • Forsooth! He hath not the value of a can of ashes.
      July 17, 2017 3:39 PM MDT
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  • 7126
    Each of us is but a fart passing through the o-ring of an ant after overindulging at an all you can eat buffet. 
      July 15, 2017 7:51 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    I like sphincter better.  But good enough. 
      July 17, 2017 7:36 AM MDT
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