Not a Slow Learner but a No Learner: Me

[Markekohut]

I learn: sunshine is crucial to a sloth's digestion. 

Sent from my iPad

On Mar 16, 2013, at 8:49 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apparently sloths can die because they move so slow they sometimes grab onto another one of their arms thinking that it's a Tree-Branch....
> 
> 
> Don't let yr left arm know what yr right arms doing
> 
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ignorance is suffering, discovery is bliss.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 4:24 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ignorance is Bliss
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Saturday, March 16, 2013, Markekohut wrote:
>>>> WUNDERBAR. Bliss = grace on the face?
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 16, 2013, at 6:51 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Some call sloth's look as "bliss."
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Saturday, March 16, 2013, David Morris wrote:
>>>>>> I've seen a TV show of sloth orphans. They are very cuddly, cute, slow, and ALWAYS with an invisible shit-eating grin.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/too-cute/videos/too-cute-baby-sloths.htm
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Saturday, March 16, 2013, Markekohut wrote:
>>>>>>> OK, you can all laugh at me and feel your deserved superiority because
>>>>>>> you have all probably seen a sloth crawl across a 6-8 feet long horizontal tree
>>>>>>> branch but I did not until today.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It is amazing, he says so articulately. if truth is movement captured in film's 24 frames per
>>>>>>> Second, then the upside-down sloth must be moving at 2-4 frames per sec,
>>>>>>> Long arms in the slowest long arc motion you might ever see in real life.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I was transfixed and, of course, not ever really knowing by experience
>>>>>>> How slowly a sloth moved, I did not think through the evolutionary reason.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> To keep themselves " invisible" to predators!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Slothrop. Not just another funny name.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The webbed meanings of so many of TRP's key metaphors, such as this one, keep astonishing.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Sent from my iPad
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