Revisiting a Classic

There've been some stories lately here in the Northeast as more and more of us take to the woods on weekends seeking respite from COVID-19 protections about some close and even closer encounters with animals like bears who live all the time in the woods. It seems they're not as fond of tourists as has been advertised.

Reminded me of that joke as a kid where two guys are out hiking in the forest when they spot a bear and the first one bends over and reties the laces on his sneakers and the other one asks him why since neither of them can outrun the bear and the first guy explains I don't have to outrun the bear; just you. Ba rump bump bump.

It would appear the National Park Service may have heard that very same joke.

Speaking of jokes.

I suspect Coldplay get tired of hearing that one, though not as tired as I am of hearing them.

But as Lyle Lovett once sang, "So meet a bear and take him out to lunch with you/And even though your friends may stop and stare/Just remember that's a bear there in the bunch with you/And they just don't come no better than a bear."
-bill kenny