Always something simple...
Always something simple and small like an unplugged plug; a dollar short; a minute late; a move behind; a missed call; a loose tile on the returning ship; an infinitesimal sperm afloat on the high tide of a moonlit night; a speck in the eye; a loose brick; a missing rung; a rounding error to the right of a decimal; a misplaced comma in the amount of a check; a frayed shoelace; a toothache or dry socket; a flu bug; a paper cut or fingertip burn; a directional light out; a white lie to others or to yourself; a single breath triggering physical life; a single wrong decision to eat the hanging fruit; one inhale short as the cause of temporal death... any and all can make a crucial difference at any point in our workaday lives. A cluster of simple and small things can make enough difference to change history, alter civilizations and turn the world upside down. Wonder why the pivotal crux of the matter isn't something complex and large.
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Originally posted by ChessPraxisBig events to be sure. Usually caused by an accumulation or cluster of small and simple things as suggested in the next to the last sentence. Often something as simple as replacement deferred. Systems seldom go bump in the night all at once.
Sometimes it is something complex and large Bob.
A faulty EGR sensor, a burned out resistor, a broken sewer main.
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01 Oct 11
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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Big events to be sure. Usually caused by an accumulation or cluster of small and simple things as suggested in the next to the last sentence. Often something as simple as replacement deferred. Systems seldom go bump in the night all at once.
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For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
01 Oct 11
Originally posted by ChessPraxisGood one, CP. Right on point. Thank you.For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
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01 Oct 11
Originally posted by coquetteDigitalis is used to treat congestive heart failure and heart rhythm problems.
that would have been nitroglycerin, and today, more likely aspirin!
Nitroglycerin spray and tablets are used to treat episodes of angina (chest pain) in people who have coronary artery disease (narrowing of the blood vessels that supply blood to the heart).
01 Oct 11
Originally posted by ChessPraxisA missing torpedo, a lost H bomb, Yellow cake showing up in the wrong hands, a dime hitting the destruct terminals of an airliner, a 45 found by a 6 year old in the projects, a family walk in the woods coming between a bear cub and its mom, a subway track coming loose, smoke or fog blinding you to an oncoming train. Stuff like that?
Sometimes it is something complex and large Bob.
A faulty EGR sensor, a burned out resistor, a broken sewer main.
01 Oct 11
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyThere is no such thing as simple things.
[b]Always something simple...
Always something simple and small like an unplugged plug; a dollar short; a minute late; a move behind; a missed call; a loose tile on the returning ship; an infinitesimal sperm afloat on the high tide of a moonlit night; a speck in the eye; a loose brick; a missing rung; a rounding error to the right of a decimal; ...[text shortened]... side down. Wonder why the pivotal crux of the matter isn't something complex and large.
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To be a minute late there are so many things that have had to happen along the way, you had a sudden dose of diahorrea, you met a friend, your shoelace came undone, the traffic lights were against you, a robbery occured, someone bumpeded into you, you stopped to watch a performing artist, someone fired a gun in the air and you ducked down to avoid being shot, etc etc.
Any or all of these acts could have caused you to lose a minute, so the act of losing a minute is really a complex issue and should not be treated so lightly.
01 Oct 11
Originally posted by sonhouseIn the twinkling of an eye; one split second; a glance away from the road or across some room; an incidental touch in an elevator or subway train; a wrong digit dialed on a telephone call; a blade of grass finding its way up to the light of day through concrete pavement... all present possibilities to discover and to achieve. Everything is possible because it's not codified.
A missing torpedo, a lost H bomb, Yellow cake showing up in the wrong hands, a dime hitting the destruct terminals of an airliner, a 45 found by a 6 year old in the projects, a family walk in the woods coming between a bear cub and its mom, a subway track coming loose, smoke or fog blinding you to an oncoming train. Stuff like that?
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Originally posted by sonhouseLike your wide ranging persrective. Thumbs Up.
A missing torpedo, a lost H bomb, Yellow cake showing up in the wrong hands, a dime hitting the destruct terminals of an airliner, a 45 found by a 6 year old in the projects, a family walk in the woods coming between a bear cub and its mom, a subway track coming loose, smoke or fog blinding you to an oncoming train. Stuff like that?
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02 Oct 11
Originally posted by ChessPraxisHad not the other 3 nails been lost before, the shoe would have been fine.For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
Had not the rider ignored his horse walking on a single shoe, the horse would've lived.
Had the rider learned to fight on foot as well as on horse (knights usually did, you know), he'd have come out alive.
Had not several other knights, not to mention many masses of (non-U, and therefore ignored by people who write in commonplaces) foot soldiers been slaughtered before, the battle would have been won, or drawn.
Had the lords of the kingdom had the wisdom not to go to war, or at least the intelligence not to lose battle after battle, that one battle wouldn't have been the last one.
Nothing ever hangs on a single detail, except in the 20/20 vision of history books.
Richard