Oh, thank heavens– I tried to read Bug very early this AM and it wasn’t here! Just a blank website! My life was meaningless!
Anyway…. It’s so ubiquitous that I can’t find who said it first, but someone has to say it first here: “They laughed at the Wright Brothers. They also laughed at the Marx Brothers.”
Dont forget Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer well known for his (often drunken) antics, he lost his nose in a mock duel over whether or not 2+2 could equal 5, he got his friend’s pet moose drunk and it had to be euthanised after it broke its legs going down stairs, and he died in a drinking contest. Yet the measurements he made of astronomical features are incredibly accurate, all the more amazing since he made them without a telescope.
I hate to knit-pick, but it was actually Nicholaus Coppernicus (spelling?) who came up with the heliocentric view which states that the earth revolves around the sun.
Actually, Galileo was a well known jerk whose abrasive, selfish and arrogant behavior would set off a chain of events that would almost entirely cripple science in regions dominated by the Catholic church.
Galileo was such a jerk he alienated the two Catholic-Bishop/astronomers who had the actual data he needed to make his case scientifically in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Deprived of the data, he fell back on philosophical augments and then had the brainless balls to put the argument of the Medici Pope, his personal friend and lifelong patron, in the mouth of his “Simplico” idiot character. Feeling personally insulted and betrayed, the Pope sicked the Inquisition on him.
Galileo’s trial actually hinged on his philosophical arguments and not the science, the Catholic church at the time did not have a position on heliocentrism vs geocentrism. It was only after nearly a decade later when Protestant propagandist made Galileo into a scientific martyr that the Catholic Church dug in its heals over the matter. This then extended to the suppression of science in general as science became seen as Protestant or even atheistic.
A lot of trouble could have been avoided for everyone if Galileo could have just lightened up a bit and not let his ego run wild.
What was that cowboy doing with the rubber ducky tube?
Being drunk, loud and obnoxious.
AH I would like to make an ass out of myself more now
“History Will Vindicate Me.”
– Martin Van Buren (it didn’t.)
Who’s that?
Exactly.
Depends on how Assy you were, you may either face assimilation or live as a hermit.
Ha! Ass-imilation!
Oh, thank heavens– I tried to read Bug very early this AM and it wasn’t here! Just a blank website! My life was meaningless!
Anyway…. It’s so ubiquitous that I can’t find who said it first, but someone has to say it first here: “They laughed at the Wright Brothers. They also laughed at the Marx Brothers.”
Dont forget Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer well known for his (often drunken) antics, he lost his nose in a mock duel over whether or not 2+2 could equal 5, he got his friend’s pet moose drunk and it had to be euthanised after it broke its legs going down stairs, and he died in a drinking contest. Yet the measurements he made of astronomical features are incredibly accurate, all the more amazing since he made them without a telescope.
I KNOW! I had to go to work Bugless….
the smoldering crater was starting to Bug me, thank God! Or Adam, rather.
Is that a tucker Max reference at the beginning?
“They all laughed at Christopher Columbus, when he said the world was round.”
Who’s got the last laugh now? Adam!
First panel on a t-shirt = win
Or just the drunken cowboy’s phrasing on a shirt would be a win too.
I hate to knit-pick, but it was actually Nicholaus Coppernicus (spelling?) who came up with the heliocentric view which states that the earth revolves around the sun.
*nitpick
Refers to the picking of nits (Lice eggs) from individual hairs, a process that requires much attention to detail.
Man, you’re such a knit picker!
I would have chosen the crocheter club, but I only have my embroidering circle to back me up…
So when is the ass kissing?
Actually, Galileo was a well known jerk whose abrasive, selfish and arrogant behavior would set off a chain of events that would almost entirely cripple science in regions dominated by the Catholic church.
Galileo was such a jerk he alienated the two Catholic-Bishop/astronomers who had the actual data he needed to make his case scientifically in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Deprived of the data, he fell back on philosophical augments and then had the brainless balls to put the argument of the Medici Pope, his personal friend and lifelong patron, in the mouth of his “Simplico” idiot character. Feeling personally insulted and betrayed, the Pope sicked the Inquisition on him.
Galileo’s trial actually hinged on his philosophical arguments and not the science, the Catholic church at the time did not have a position on heliocentrism vs geocentrism. It was only after nearly a decade later when Protestant propagandist made Galileo into a scientific martyr that the Catholic Church dug in its heals over the matter. This then extended to the suppression of science in general as science became seen as Protestant or even atheistic.
A lot of trouble could have been avoided for everyone if Galileo could have just lightened up a bit and not let his ego run wild.