misc. preterites.

[Markekohut]

Browsing a Smithsonian mag, I see a profile of an animal scientist billed as
Champion of the Underdog.

Features her love of sloths.

Sent from my iPad

On Mar 16, 2013, at 4:48 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> 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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