Poets huh? But what do they REALLY do for a living.

Couldn't they just get drunk and/or high? That is the usual method for jump energizing poetry. Or, it is for me.

They should try writing some remarkable poetry, rather than jumping into a lake. People either like poetry, or they're likely to tell a poet to go jump in a lake.

These folks, therefore, are doing it backwards.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: ~ HAIKU ~

A frigid lake plunge?

The technical term for that:

Hypothermia.

Mifune would be proud but Mishima would have some choice words for that.

great headline. I LOLD

Stuff like this always cracks me up.
Mainly because it's been done so many times that no one gives a krap anymore.

Back in the 50s, it was big news when some Norwegian folks chopped a hole in a frozen lake and jumped in for a swim, but now, it seems nearly everyone can do it.

Kind of like how it was really exciting news when someone climbed Mt. Everest and made it back down alive. Now, anyone with roughly $64,000 can climb the peak and so many do that it's turned into a business with a waiting list and the pristine slopes are getting littered with bodies and discarded oxygen canisters.

Boooring!

Build your own rocket and get into a sustained orbit -- meaning more than 15 minutes -- or make your own deep sea submersible and dive down to see the Titanic or even build something to get you to the moon and land and I'll be impressed.

Right now we have so many runners, bikers, swimmers, joggers and walkers who are doing long distance stuff for a cause that it's become common place.

Build a solar powered car, that will not break down, can fit at least two people comfortably and drive from coast to cost in the USA at an average speed of 45 mph and that will impress me. (In the same time you could drive it in a conventional car.) I might even contribute to your cause.

Traveling to the North or South pole on motorized sleds by guys who are average folks and dreamed up the idea doesn't impress me either. Solo trips across the oceans, either by sail or rowing, have happened so often that I couldn't care less. Especially with the new, basically unsinkable boats.

What did impress me years ago was an article I read about a bunch of homeless folks in New York City, building a boat out of salvaged junk, not one of them a sailor or boat builder, who got some radio and computer gear donated to them and sailed off to wander the world. They did have a website someone built for them, but I don't know what happened to it or them.

I wonder from time to time if they ever made it. I think they called their vessel the 'Junk Ship'.

Even before that, I was Impressed by the Voyage of the 'Kon Tiki' -- a reed raft made by scientists and explorers to determine if ancient folks could have navigated far distances over the ocean to colonize islands. Now THAT was impressive. Thor Hyerdahl was the expedition leader and designer. (Read the book. It's fascinating!)

I was also impressed when the French designed, first deep diving bell went a couple of miles down to the bottom of the sea. Now, if you happen to have about $10,000 to blow, you can book a ride on a submersible and go visit the Titanic.

So, impress me with something new for your causes and I'll probably donate and back you or at least spread your praise all over the Internet.

Oh, yeah. pounding down about 100 chicken wings or 50 hotdogs doesn't impress me at all. It just shows me you're a glutton.