<html> <body> At 05:03 PM 10/20/2004, Carl Remick wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Pass me the milk and graham crackers then, because I find the Roadrunner cartoons very funny.  Wile E. Coyote does not get blown up by the Roadrunner "again and again and agonizingly again in exactly the same manner."  He gets blown up in a rich, never-ending variety of ways due to his own misfiring machinations (always with the help, of course, of glitch-prone, state-of-the-art gadgetry from Acme Corporation).  Sunlion of Riga, Latvia, fails to appreciate the deep Sisyphean tragedy of the Roadrunner cartoons -- no matter how fiendishly clever Wile E. Coyote is, he will never get the Roadrunner and will always himself be the victim of his own snares. Quite an allegory for certain large nations I can think of. Carl "Beep - beep!"</blockquote> <x-sigsep></x-sigsep> Ahhhhhhh. Dayum! You, Chuck Grimes, and Dwayne are always such a pleasure to read. I hope, Carl, you're working on the Great American Novel. I'm reminded that, when I was little, my parents took me to an Acme store. Unlike other grocery stores (at the time), the was big and warehouse like. It was the first time I'd seen such an open design. They also had green stamps, IINM. At any rate, all of that was on the back burner as I scoured every nook and cranny of that store looking for the crazy contraptions Wile E. Coyote ordered from Acme. I was _very_ disappointed when, after several visits, I realized that this wasn't THE Acme. There is nothing like that moment you realize there is something to the name "Wile E. Coyote" or you realize that there is some risque adult humor going on that you hadn't noticed before or when you realized that the characters in RL MR> Roger's Neighborhood were playing the characters in the kingdom (whatever the hell it was called). Does anyone know what I mean? Or perhaps you have read an article/book that talks about how this contributes to the capacity for increasingly abstract thought? Or maybe it doesn't , I just think it does and am looking for anyone who has done work on the topic. Kelley</body> </html>