#196012 - 02/17/10 02:26 AM
Degrees of Lucky
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Journeyman
Registered: 01/28/10
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Loc: NW Arkansas
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OK, Susan posted degrees of stupidity. Here's degrees of lucky. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X8DCRv8x5kI've participated in my share of things that this video classifies as Level 3, sort of like saying "Y'all watch this!' -- free climbing 80-foot bluffs, getting lost in a cave, making gunpowder at age 13 (who needed the Internet in the 1970s, the recipe was in the dictionary), building a firecracker gun that shot 50-caliber marbles -- but I don't want to elevate things to Levels 4 and 5. Blast, he seems to be the kind of guy who goes to Level 5 as he laughs in the locomotive's face! 
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#196018 - 02/17/10 04:07 AM
Re: Degrees of Lucky
[Re: Newsman]
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Geezer
Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
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My computer doesn't like videos... what's it showing?
Sue
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#196022 - 02/17/10 07:10 AM
Re: Degrees of Lucky
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1) Lucky: two genii (geniuses) stand on the inside of a turn (imagine the grassy area besides a highway on-ramp) at a European rally race (they're spectators standing on part of the course). As the car slides off road, one gets missed by feet, while grandpa hugs/pets the car as it slows down, and are considered "Lucky".
2) Really Lucky: similarly situated photographer (on this course there is actual red tape, and this guy is behind it) gets saved by a tree (car loses control and swerves into and is stopped by a tree).
3) Dumb Lucky: 4wd(?) pickup in the desert goes fast (30mph?) over a dune, genius standing free in the back. When the pickup jumps over the peak, and piledrives (sticks nose first, rear in the air) into the sand (on the other side of the dune), the genius keeps flying. Miraculously he lands softly some 50+yards down hill.
4) Damn Lucky: makeshift desert rally race finish line, the flagman , standing free near a bank, dodges death by a hair as the car flips over him, miraculously missing him. He gets a nice sand shower, but isn't turned into hamburger.
5) Holy Crap Lucky: India, train tracks under an overpass (read BRIDGE), a genius couple decide to play chicken with express train, dodge death by 1 second just to get to the other side.
Edited by EMPnotImplyNuclear (02/17/10 07:12 AM)
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#196062 - 02/18/10 12:54 AM
Re: Degrees of Lucky
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Veteran
Registered: 08/19/03
Posts: 1371
Loc: Queens, New York City
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Looking at #2, to me, that photographer was lucky, but also thought it out - he appeared to be deliberately standing behind that tree, knowing it would stop most things
BTW, there is a similar one of a rally, where the photographer is standing in a drive/lane that is perpendicular to the course, and he's beind a nice stone wall/embankment - the "up road" propert is 6 or so FEET above the road surface - sure enough, someome wipes out and slide alone the side of the road, and he just stans there, as the wreck goes bouncing by about 3 ft away
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#196065 - 02/18/10 01:25 AM
Re: Degrees of Lucky
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INTERCEPTOR
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 07/15/02
Posts: 3760
Loc: TX
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1) Lucky: two genii (geniuses) stand on the inside of a turn (imagine the grassy area besides a highway on-ramp) at a European rally race (they're spectators standing on part of the course). As the car slides off road, one gets missed by feet, while grandpa hugs/pets the car as it slows down, and are considered "Lucky".
2) Really Lucky: similarly situated photographer (on this course there is actual red tape, and this guy is behind it) gets saved by a tree (car loses control and swerves into and is stopped by a tree).
3) Dumb Lucky: 4wd(?) pickup in the desert goes fast (30mph?) over a dune, genius standing free in the back. When the pickup jumps over the peak, and piledrives (sticks nose first, rear in the air) into the sand (on the other side of the dune), the genius keeps flying. Miraculously he lands softly some 50+yards down hill.
4) Damn Lucky: makeshift desert rally race finish line, the flagman , standing free near a bank, dodges death by a hair as the car flips over him, miraculously missing him. He gets a nice sand shower, but isn't turned into hamburger.
5) Holy Crap Lucky: India, train tracks under an overpass (read BRIDGE), a genius couple decide to play chicken with express train, dodge death by 1 second just to get to the other side.
Hey, what happened to the funny Blast comment? I had a "No, I go up to 11!" reply I was going to use!  -Blast
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#196091 - 02/18/10 02:50 PM
Re: Degrees of Lucky
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Rapscallion
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Registered: 02/06/04
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Loc: Anchorage AK
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Somewhere at the top of the lucky list has to be the "I ran for president and actually got elected" lucky.
Or maybe that is unlucky, depending on your point of view.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
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#196101 - 02/18/10 05:26 PM
Re: Degrees of Lucky
[Re: Blast]
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Journeyman
Registered: 07/10/09
Posts: 82
Loc: UK
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Blast, Newsman wrote at the bottom of his post " Blast, he seems to be the kind of guy who goes to Level 5 as he laughs in the locomotive's face! " I think you neeed to have your glasses prescription checked 
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#196111 - 02/19/10 12:33 AM
Re: Degrees of Lucky
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Wanderer
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#196118 - 02/19/10 02:08 AM
Re: Degrees of Lucky
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Journeyman
Registered: 01/28/10
Posts: 67
Loc: NW Arkansas
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Rescueguru, that was in no way a complete list!
The dad of one of my two best friends was a steamfitter/pipefitter who had a machine shop in the garage. It was well stocked with all manner of tools, pipes and bar/slab stock.
I would love to list a few of the projects we built. Would make a great reality TV show today. As, it seems, would a great number of people who visit this Website.
When something went bang, pow, or ka-boom, a mom in the neighborhood would call you -- as we laughed hysterically -- "You boys OK?" Today, they'd call out the SWAT team.
Ah, being a teenager in the 1970s and earlier! We had it so good and didn't know it.
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#196129 - 02/19/10 05:12 AM
Re: Degrees of Lucky
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Geezer
Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
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You realize, of course, that Luck plays an important part in determining how things that people do turn out.
It's the mostly-unlucky ones that make the newspapers.
I'm sure you've heard of the man who asked his friend to take his picture at the edge of Mt. St. Helens a few days ago. He took one step backwards and fell about 1500 feet into the caldera. They knew he was alive for some time, as he blew his whistle to let them know, but the helicopter couldn't get to him until the next day. The autopsy will will tell if he died from his injuries or hypothermia.
Luck. Sometimes her attention is elsewhere.
Sue
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