Whatever happened to...
...toddlers falling down wells?
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You're right about that. After the last several months of so-called "news," we need a little pathos, eh?
Cheers.
Well, there's that too, Randall, of course. But my basic question is where did all the wells and toddlers go? Time was they ran on average about once a week. Are modern kids just too fat to fit, or what?
People must be filling their wells with garbage instead of toddlers. If you're a well, you get treated like a dustbin once your water runs out.
Oh, they're still falling down there. They're just not cute anymore. Fuck 'em
Think of it as Natural Selection at work. The wells have done their job culling the herd, as it were.
So being fat is genetically advantageous, then, Randall? That explains a lot.
On the other hand, maybe wells are just not intelligently designed...
How dare you! So, wells are just holes in the ground that ?happen to fill up with water eh? Noone put them there hmmmm? That's just a THEORY! How do they know to fill up?!
Answer me that, smart aleck!
Plus, if your children are thin, that means they don't eat enough. This is both unamerican and proof you are poor and probably a satanist to boot.
I live not too far from the Stringfellow Acid Pits. If any kids around here fell down wells, they would be dissolved instantly.
If the media are really desperate and you can't find a sufficiently thin kid, why not go for some charismatic megafauna? Cute marmoset, big shiny eyes glimmering in news camera lights, and so on. Has the plus of journalists being able to sound all clever by mentioning CITES.
Whereas a politician down a well...
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