Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for August 10, 2013
Transcript:
Satchel: You can't jump all the way to fungi's window. It must be 15 feet. Bucky: I knew a cat who would jump 18 feet. Satchel: I bet he wasn't wearing an oatmeal box. Bucky: Dunno. He died in the 1920s. Satchel: How did you know him if he died in the 1920s? Bucky: Not the 1920s, the feet feet 20s. 22 feet, to be specific. He tried it. He didn't make it. Like I said, 18 feet was his Max. Satchel: On second thought, go for it. The oatmeal box would contain any splatter.
The great Tim Conway did a bit about the loss of a girl friend while she was swimming toward a dock. A Great White got her just as she almost reached the dock. WHAM!! She’d a made it if she hadn’t been wearing that heavy ham necklace.
This story and the old maxim come to mind here, “You can’t leap a canyon in two jumps.”