{"id":30,"date":"2004-08-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2004-08-17T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T11:42:45","slug":"sos-the-original-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"SOS – the original text"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t write what follows, but I agree with it and felt it should be published for all to learn from.<\/em><\/p>\n

Stupid people should have to wear signs that just say, \u201cI\u2019m Stupid\u201d. That way you wouldn\u2019t rely on them, would you? You wouldn\u2019t ask them anything.<\/p>\n

It would be like, \u201cExcuse me…oops, never mind. I didn\u2019t see your sign.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My friend comes over and says \u201cHey, you moving?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes. Here\u2019s your sign.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big \u2018ol stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, \u201cHey, y\u2019all catch all them fish?\u201d \u201cNope Talked \u2018em into giving up. Here\u2019s your sign.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel. There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And there\u2019s only one way to test it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlright Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks good… They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWell, all right, but hold my sign. I don\u2019t wanna lose it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those side-of-the-road gas stations. The attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I SWEAR he said, \u201cTire go flat?\u201d I couldn\u2019t resist. I said, \u201cNope. I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me. Here\u2019s your sign.\u201d<\/p>\n

We were trying to sell our car about a year ago. A guy came over to the house and drove the car around for about 45 minutes. We get back to the house, he gets out of the car, reaches down and grabs the exhaust pipe, then says, \u201cDarn that\u2019s hot!\u201d See? If he\u2019d been wearing his sign, I could have stopped him.<\/p>\n

I learned to drive an 18 wheeler in my days of adventure. Wouldn\u2019t ya know I misjudged the height of a bridge. The truck got stuck and I couldn\u2019t get it out no matter how I tried. I radioed in for help and eventually a local cop shows up to take the report. He went through his basic questioning..ok..no problem. I thought sure he was clear of needing a sign…until he asked \u201cSo..is your truck stuck?\u201d I couldn\u2019t help myself! I looked at him, looked back at the rig and then back to him and said \u201cno I\u2019m delivering\u2019 a bridge…here\u2019s your sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I managed to source the original “the sign of stupidity” text: enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}