Eric Clapton's greatest nemesis

Wait. Let me see if I've got this straight. When someone falls out of a window, they don't float, but hit the ground instead. Is that what you're trying to tell me?

I came here for a Clapton joke, dammit!

I wish Ric Romero would have said something about this

grokca: offmymeds: Wait. Let me see if I've got this straight. When someone falls out of a window, they don't float, but hit the ground instead. Is that what you're trying to tell me?

That's just a theory.

The trick is to aim for the ground and miss.

The science is questionable.

TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!

I always thought kids landed on their feet.

There is no such thing as gravity.

The Earth sucks.

Skraeling: I always thought kids landed on their feet.

not when they're hogtied

I'll never forget the time when Horace Loab won the Teardrop at the 24th Annual Music Awards.

24th Annual Music Awards

hillary: There is no such thing as gravity.

The Earth sucks.

No, no. Baby Jesus put invisible magnets in our feet to keep us from floating away

i think they picked the wrong time of year to release the article. Shouldn't it appear in the fall?

Gravity = Harsh Mistress

hillary: There is no such thing as gravity.

The Earth sucks.

libs would have you believe otherwise!!!
These libs, they are everywhere!!

I'd snark about helicopter parents and snowflakes... but I apparently damn near killed myself as a kid exactly this way. My mom went to the bathroom for a few minutes, and came out to find me sitting on the window ledge 3 stories up - basically one wiggle away from plunging to my doom.

Googled Eric Clapton song titles. Found a list containing the following. I don't have the time (bus to Hell leaving soon) or talent to do anything with them. Maybe someone else can.



Ain't Going Down
Bad Boy
Catch Me If You Can
Falls Like Rain
Heaven Is One Step Away
Hold On
It's In The Way That You Use It
Let It Rain
Man Overboard
Tears In Heaven -- of course
The Shape You're In
Watch Out For Lucy



Complete list: http://whereseric.com/eric-clapton-faq/song-information/alphabetical-l ist-songs-eric-clapton

I can't do it either. I'm not even a Clapton fan, but when his five-year-old fell out the window, my kid was about the same age. Nope.

Sad, my first thought also was some sort of Clapton reference.

: But you know, I never studied law.

2nd: It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the bottom.

Someone already covered the Earth sucks.

There, the obligs are out of the way! :)

someone needs to stand up to these experts and prove them wrong.

Somebody had to do it.

*golf clapton*

labman: Not just kids... there have been three college students in the news lately that fell off buildings or out of windows recently. (One at the college I work at, one at some other school puking out a window, and a third that just fell out of a window.)

Darwin steps in where parents are too stupid to tread.

"Falling out of windows can hurt."

Adebisi: grokca: offmymeds: Wait. Let me see if I've got this straight. When someone falls out of a window, they don't float, but hit the ground instead. Is that what you're trying to tell me?

That's just a theory.

The trick is to aim for the ground and miss.



/Hotlinked
//Have the definition of flying on a shirt that I wear out in public sometimes. . .
///The best of times. . .

Tommy John the pitcher - Tommy John Surgery - had a son fall out of a 3rd story window. He later recovered.

/Went to school with TJ
//Batted against him once in high school
///Looked like complete fool with a bat in my hand

Shave every day and you'll always look keen.

Pfft, amateurs...

I have no compunction about making a Clapton joke. If I knew a good one, it would be here instead of this crap. You're all a bunch of babies.

No Such Agency: I'd snark about helicopter parents and snowflakes... but I apparently damn near killed myself as a kid exactly this way. My mom went to the bathroom for a few minutes, and came out to find me sitting on the window ledge 3 stories up - basically one wiggle away from plunging to my doom.

Fark is for snarking, but until you are a parent you have no idea the myriad ways that children will use to autodestruct.

Like venitian blind cords.

darwinito

Natural selection. I say let them fall.

Sounds like it defenestrately is a serious problem.

Must be a board meeting.

Next at 11, the CDC recommends banning all windows.

Might as well put kids in plastic bubbles until they are 18 so they are totally unprepared for real life

Gravity always wins.

This movie was an educational film to warn you about the consequences of letting toddlers jump from windows.

/apparently, you get a grindstone impaled through your leg and then bolted there
//also the kid dies

When I was a wee little girl, I remember moving into our third or fourth story apartment. I crawled onto a chair in the kitchen and pressed my face against the screen covering the otherwise open window. I'm lucky I wasn't pressing too hard, because the screen popped right out and fell to the ground as I watched.

A few years later, we were able to use that screenless window to throw raw meat down to a rabid animal that had wandered close to the building. That kept it in one spot for animal control to find.

/CSS

cryinoutloud: I can't do it either. I'm not even a Clapton fan, but when his five-year-old fell out the window, my kid was about the same age. Nope.

^--Best clue in on the joke possible. Eat shiat Bakeroo.

lifeboat beat me to it.