Gullability

[Keith]

I've been known to be unusually gullible from time to time.

Recent example:

I was watching a review of a children's horror series. The reviewer, for comedic effect, inserted censor bleeps and blurs in his various footage shots. In one scene he shows, a Checker taxi is headed straight for a tree at high speed. He then cuts to a white sixties convertible flipping off a cliff and exploding. I actually asked whether there were really things to censor and if the car actually exploded.

 

[bentHnau]

That seems more like misunderstanding humor to me.

 

[Ste11aeres]

There is a story about the great 13th century philosopher St Thomas Aquinas (who I think might have been an Aspie) that someone said "Look at the flying ox!" and Thomas went over to the window to see it.

 

[bentHnau]

"Look at the flying ox!"

What does that mean?

 

[May Black]

There is a story about the great 13th century philosopher St Thomas Aquinas (who I think might have been an Aspie) that someone said "Look at the flying ox!" and Thomas went over to the window to see it.

That sounds just like something I could do.

 

[Cali Cat]

What does that mean?

I think the person who said that to St. Thomas was just joshing. Maybe that person knew Thomas was gullible enough to look.

 

[AsheSkyler]

With sufficient thrust, oxen fly just fine.

 

[StephF]

Yes but we need to be careful we don't end back up with exploding horses again !

 

[Randomperson]

Catapult + oxen = flying oxen, doth hath been learned.

 

[Pierre09]

What does that mean?

My first inclination was a reference to "the cow jumped over the moon". However, a quick wikipedia browse uncovered that this nursery rhyme wasn't written until the 16th century so this hypothesis wouldn't work. I guess they just said a lot of weird things back then.