[Sca-cooks] Re: bundt cake?

[Jeff Gedney]

>    >> Why does everyone get so worked up about cheerleaders? (Vacuous
>    *and* loud
>    >> doesn't seem to be a combination to laud, to me)

Listen, A young man in High School/College has his hormones pumping
at 1000% of the normal adult level, and he tends to be VERY
visually stimulated.

And Cheerleaders are usually very healthy, with all the indicators
of desirability and attraction that are programmed into our male
instincts, such as clear skin, white teeth, with tight muscular
legs and buttocks, wearing tight outfits and hopping about in front
of you making them a display that is prone to uh, jiggling.
Just the sort of display that sort of turns off the higher cognitive
functions, and turns boys into drooling randy primates. Add to that the
inevitable prurient rumors of sexual prowess and pliability that
orbits the locker rooms, and that is a fairly potent combination.

My son has just entered his freshman year of High school, and you
should see the way his eyes go dim, and he paws the earth and snorts
when he sees the cheerleaders practicing.


Brandu

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"All of this is by way of coming around to the somewhat paradoxical
observation that we speak with remarkable laxness and imprecision
and yet manage to express ourselves with wondrous subtlety -- and
simply breathtaking speed. In normal conversation we speak at a rate
of about 300 syllables a minute. To do this we force air up through
the larynx -- or supralaryngeal vocal tract, to be technical about
it-- and, by variously pursing our lips and flapping our tongue
around in our mouth rather in the manner of a freshly landed fish,
we shape each passing puff into a series of loosely differentiated
plosives, fricatives, gutterals, and other minor atmospheric
disturbances. These emerge as a more or less continuous blur of
sound. People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables,
words, sentences run together like a watercolor left in the rain. To
understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises
into words and the words into sentences so that we might in our turn
issue a stream of mixed sounds in response. If what we say is
suitably apt and amusing, the listener will show his delight by
emitting a series of uncontrolled high pitched noises, accompanied
by sharp intakes of breath of the sort normally associated with a
seizure or heart failure. And by these means we converse. Talking,
when you think about it, is a very strange business indeed."
- Bill Bryson, "the Mother Tongue, English and How It Got That Way"

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