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2011-10-24 11:05:42 AM
My grandfather detected a fire at his nursing home once. Despite not being able to walk well, he managed to pull the fire-emergency handle to prompt an evacuation and a response from the fire-department.

Unfortunately, the reason Grandma had to send him to the nursing home was because he was going senile and would always wake her in the middle of the night saying he smelled a fire.

/by "detected a fire once" I mean "about a half-dozen times." God bless that nursing home staff.
 
2011-10-24 12:21:54 PM
Love the story, and impaler's too, but whenever I see these stories, I always think of the Onion and crack up.

Hero Firefighter: 'I'm A Hero' (pops)

"I saved this child," he said. "I am Yahweh, Giver Of Life."
 
2011-10-24 12:24:18 PM
rikdanger: I always think of the Onion and crack up.

I thought I was about to see a link to Existentialist Firefighter Delays 3 Deaths.
 
2011-10-24 12:54:45 PM
Wouldn't that be heroine?
 
2011-10-24 02:25:22 PM
I'm surprised the flower didn't cause a fireball.
 
2011-10-24 02:25:35 PM
Grables'Daughter: Wouldn't that be heroine?

Stop perpetuating the gender divide!
 
2011-10-24 02:30:37 PM
Grables'Daughter: Wouldn't that be heroine?

No, that's illegal.
 
2011-10-24 02:31:28 PM
"First I got a pitcher of water and threw that on it, and when that didn't work I threw flour on the fire," explains Swiszowski.

...toss in a few eggs and they could have had cake in her honor.
 
BOZ
2011-10-24 02:33:37 PM
Don't throw flour on a fire! When properly mixed with air, flour becomes explosive. She was lucky it didn't kill her.
 
2011-10-24 02:34:38 PM
What do we do with our lives
We leave only a mark
Will our story shine like a life
Or end in the dark
Give it all or nothing

We don't need another hero...
 
2011-10-24 02:35:07 PM
RedfordRenegade: I don't think the old bag is THAT much of a hero, but that Kristyn Caddell....man I would love to put out a fire in her recepticle.....

We could smoke afterwords baby!


If you smoke after sex, it means you are probably going to fast.
 
2011-10-24 02:37:43 PM
Badmonkey82009: RedfordRenegade: I don't think the old bag is THAT much of a hero, but that Kristyn Caddell....man I would love to put out a fire in her recepticle.....

We could smoke afterwords baby!

If you smoke after sex, it means you are probably going to fast.


Why would anyone want to fast after sex? Eating to regain energy would be a better idea.
 
2011-10-24 02:42:42 PM
Sarah Palin's Conscience: Grables'Daughter: Wouldn't that be heroine?

No, that's illegal.


Zing!
 
2011-10-24 03:00:04 PM
Sarah Palin's Conscience: Badmonkey82009: RedfordRenegade: I don't think the old bag is THAT much of a hero, but that Kristyn Caddell....man I would love to put out a fire in her recepticle.....

We could smoke afterwords baby!

If you smoke after sex, it means you are probably going to fast.

Why would anyone want to fast after sex? Eating to regain energy would be a better idea.


Perfect witty comment ruined by stupid fingers that can't type. Stupid phalanges.
 
2011-10-24 03:06:54 PM
Honey, what did you use to fight the fire? Fire extinguisher? Wet towels?

/depends
 
2011-10-24 03:13:29 PM
I feel that the term "hero" gets thrown around too much nowadays. Who's supposed to foot the bill when Aunt Meg here suffers from smoke inhalation or severe burns? Taxpayers?
 
2011-10-24 03:13:36 PM
Smells of boiled urine.
 
2011-10-24 03:19:16 PM
numbone: Smells of boiled urine.

I know that smell.
 
2011-10-24 03:49:44 PM
(I smell toast reference here.)

When people who do something courageous and self-abnegating say "I'm not a hero(ine)." they should be disregarded unless they are shifty-eyed and nervous. That's what they all say.

If they do claim to be a hero, check to see how the fire started, etc., just in case. Maybe they really aren't a hero after all. There are plenty of people who become addicted to adulation or who never get enough and thus try to force the facts into a conveniently self-promoting story.

Otherwise, I wish that people wouldn't be sloppy with the word "hero". It should be reserved for acts of courage with some moral or physical risk to the person in question. Pulling a fire alarm is not an act of heroism, although it may save property and lives. No risk, no heroism. If you had a phobia about cats but nonetheless carried a cat out of building you thought (wrongly) was on fire, you are a sort of hero, on the other hand. It took real courage to be useless in that way. You had to overcome (irrational) terror and fight against your instincts of self-preservation and, at the very least, a possible cat allergy or irrational bogey-men.

A lot of true heroism triumphs quietly and in obscurity, while a lot of blind luck, stupidity and even terror are rewarded with the label hero. The fool who runs into battle is no more heroic than the fool who runs from it, but he might win the day and form a suitable post to pin a medal on if nobody else turns up in time to claim a decisive contribution to victory.

I'm rather of the same (deviously myth-busting) mind as Sir Terry Pratchett and his Discworld and other fictional characters: heroism is often a misnomer, and the real thing, like any other virtue, seldom goes entirely unpunished.

Heroism is all about stories. In the real world there is no "try" and no story, there is only do or do not, as the wise man said. Pterry is as wise as an Zen Master from the peaks of any major mountain range in this respect. Distrust stories, but do what you do do well, with all your heart and all your soul, as you should love the Lord and your fellow man.
 
2011-10-24 10:15:21 PM
All_Farked_Up: I'm surprised the flower didn't cause a fireball.

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