Quicksand facts

h.g.Whiz · 27th May 2012, 07:36 PM

So, you can float free?

marplots · 27th May 2012, 07:45 PM

Not me, I'm too dense.

Skeptic Ginger · 27th May 2012, 07:49 PM

It appears so.

h.g.Whiz · 27th May 2012, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by marplots

Not me, I'm too dense.

What a pithyful shame.

h.g.Whiz · 27th May 2012, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger

It appears so.

Are you finding out just now as well?

Skeptic Ginger · 27th May 2012, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by h.g.Whiz

Are you finding out just now as well?

Not sure what you mean. I was confirming my previous belief. You never know when some old myth suckered you in. Always best to check.

marplots · 27th May 2012, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger

Not sure what you mean. I was confirming my previous belief. You never know when some old myth suckered you in. Always best to check.

I do not believe you are dense enough to be sucked in by old myths.

Brian-M · 27th May 2012, 10:48 PM

Mythbusters already checked this myth...

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But even by thinking about it logically you'd have to conclude that you'd float in quicksand. Sand is denser than water, and quicksand is a mixture of sand and water, therefore quicksand is denser than water. Humans have about the same density as water, and so have a lower density than quicksand, and so would float.

catsmate1 · 28th May 2012, 02:53 AM

IIRC this was a point in one of Piers Anthony's books, you can float on quicksand.

Soapy Sam · 28th May 2012, 03:38 AM

If sand is denser than water, then it can't be suspended in water, unless something is keeping it suspended.
Most "quicksand" is actually mud. Clay.
Clay chemistry is complex. Clays like montmorillonite expand enormously in water and can produce a viscous slurry that is simultaneously mobile and sticky. Get into it and you may have great difficulty getting out.
Mix that with a running sand and you have something that forms a rather effective trap.
Now add a bit of darkness, rain, possible local flooding and maybe garnish with tree branches and vegetation washing in ... and just relaxing and floating out may be a lot harder than it sounds.

But the idea of being sucked under is false, except in the rare case of a mud / sand slurry overlying a deeper current. Thats more likely in mud slides or tsunamis.
All in all, it's not at the top of my worry list.

LibraryLady · 28th May 2012, 03:39 AM

Don't worry, Tarzan will always rescue you.

Soapy Sam · 28th May 2012, 03:50 AM

Ever wonder what sort of view you get as he swings overhead on a liana, wearing a loincloth?

commandlinegamer · 28th May 2012, 04:04 AM

Piles of grain are more like the stereotypical movie idea of quicksand in that workers in silos can easily be covered in a matter of moments if its flowing, e.g. the bin is being emptied.

quarky · 28th May 2012, 07:24 AM

I've stumbled into the stuff. The problem is, even though it is denser than we are, its still easy to sink down to your waste. I've had to be pulled out a few times.

Dave Rogers · 28th May 2012, 07:27 AM

Originally Posted by quarky

The problem is, even though it is denser than we are, its still easy to sink down to your waste.

I was about to correct your spelling, but given that falling into quicksand is pretty scary, you could be right.

Dave

Skeptic Ginger · 28th May 2012, 08:45 AM

Originally Posted by marplots

I do not believe you are dense enough to be sucked in by old myths.

When did you learn lemmings don't really commit mass suicide? Vitamin C doesn't cure or prevent a cold? You don't catch a cold from being cold? Betsy Ross didn't really sew the first flag?

There are thousands of such myths that become 'common knowledge'. It's my principle to trust but verify if it isn't a fact I've recently checked. I fail to see what the problem is with that.

Skeptic Ginger · 28th May 2012, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by LibraryLady

Don't worry, Tarzan will always rescue you.

That's only if you're female.

marplots · 28th May 2012, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger

When did you learn lemmings don't really commit mass suicide? Vitamin C doesn't cure or prevent a cold? You don't catch a cold from being cold? Betsy Ross didn't really sew the first flag?

There are thousands of such myths that become 'common knowledge'. It's my principle to trust but verify if it isn't a fact I've recently checked. I fail to see what the problem is with that.

No problem, I botched a compliment, that's all.

I remember the lemmings one. Busted two myths at the time as I recall. The first was about the rodents and the second was about film makers -- that they were honestly depicting what happened in nature.

LibraryLady · 28th May 2012, 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger

That's only if you're female.

Okay, Tarzan will always rescue me.

Modified · 28th May 2012, 10:13 AM

I spend a lot of time at a "lake", parts of which have at least ten feet of mud (the longest pole we've tested with) beneath one foot of water. If you fell in flat you could float or swim, but feet first and too far from the boat to hold on to it, and I think you'd be dead. Just walking out from shore as the sand gives way to mud, it gets pretty scary when you get into two feet of mud beneath two feet of water.

Hoppy · 28th May 2012, 10:36 AM

You can, and will, be sucked down to your death in quicksand but only if you are a
villan. "Good guys" always have a rope/vine, sidekick, hot woman to save them.
More often than not a good guy is able to save himself by strengh alone. Women seem to be totally immune to the evils of quicksand.

quarky · 28th May 2012, 11:42 AM

You know what's scarier than quicksand?

A floating pool cover.
If you get on one of those, you start to sink and the plastic envelops you, like a hideous jelly-fish. Pretty dangerous deal.

Soapy Sam · 28th May 2012, 12:19 PM

Originally Posted by commandlinegamer

Piles of grain are more like the stereotypical movie idea of quicksand in that workers in silos can easily be covered in a matter of moments if its flowing, e.g. the bin is being emptied.

Indeed so. Especially if there is air being blown in at the bottom to "fluidise" the grain (or other powder) for pneumatic transport. Dust and air is a damn nasty mix.

Skeptic Ginger · 28th May 2012, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by LibraryLady

Okay, Tarzan will always rescue me.

I will never forget one of those films from the 50s or 60s where the supposed jungle queen (a white girl, no less, but who was supposed to be surviving in the jungle just fine before the Tarzan-like hero found her, it may not have been Tarzan) was rescued on average about every 15 minutes throughout the movie.

autumn1971 · 28th May 2012, 12:35 PM

What about the R.O.U.S.'s?

quarky · 28th May 2012, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by Soapy Sam

Indeed so. Especially if there is air being blown in at the bottom to "fluidise" the grain (or other powder) for pneumatic transport. Dust and air is a damn nasty mix.

My son-in-law is an engineer that gets sent out to trouble shoot power plants.
He told me of one job wherein there was a vat of tiny glass spheres. i forget what type of power plant, or the purpose of this pool-sized container of nearly-liquid glass balls...but he had to enter it to repair something. He ended up buying a cheap blow-up raft to get in there. i would have loved to know what its like to try to swim under that sort of artificial liquid...and if you could breathe under it, due to all the air in the spaces.

i want a fake water swimming pool, and i want to breathe under the surface of it, and even sleep in it. Too bad the tiny glass spheres are so expensive.

Skeptic Ginger · 28th May 2012, 12:50 PM

I guess the Jungle Queen was a serial movie from the 30s. I must have seen the reruns.

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No quicksand scene in that 10 minutes but the stereotypes are priceless. I'm sure if one looked for a while one could find a quicksand rescue scene.

Here's the 'not quite so PC but they tried' modern remake with Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. It's another priceless rescue scene, this time with quicksand:

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Tiktaalik · 28th May 2012, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by autumn1971

What about the R.O.U.S.'s?

I don't think you can float out of an ROUS.

Skeptic Ginger · 28th May 2012, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by Tiktaalik

I don't think you can float out of an ROUS.

My Google-fu finds either "Rodents Of Unusual Size" or the Rous sarcoma virus. Care to offer a third option?

autumn1971 · 28th May 2012, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by Tiktaalik

I don't think you can float out of an ROUS.

It's okay. I don't believe they exist. . .

autumn1971 · 28th May 2012, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger

My Google-fu finds either "Rodents Of Unusual Size" or the Rous sarcoma virus. Care to offer a third option?

First one. Bad Princess Bride reference.

I Ratant · 28th May 2012, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by Hoppy

You can, and will, be sucked down to your death in quicksand but only if you are a
villan. "Good guys" always have a rope/vine, sidekick, hot woman to save them.
More often than not a good guy is able to save himself by strengh alone. Women seem to be totally immune to the evils of quicksand.

.
The tragedies occur when Tommy falls into the quicksand and the time Lassie takes to run home for help is too long, and Tommy goes under...

I Ratant · 28th May 2012, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger

I will never forget one of those films from the 50s or 60s where the supposed jungle queen (a white girl, no less, but who was supposed to be surviving in the jungle just fine before the Tarzan-like hero found her, it may not have been Tarzan) was rescued on average about every 15 minutes throughout the movie.

.
I saw a condemned film where the white girl in the jungle was the only female wearing a bra.
All the natives were free-jiggling.
It was a German film.. 'long 'bout 1958...
Us Catholic boys went to see it knowing it was condemned!
It was written in the school paper.
Some nuns had gone to it, not understanding the theme.. and were appalled!

LibraryLady · 28th May 2012, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by autumn1971

First one. Bad Princess Bride reference.

There are no bad Princess Bride references.

Prepare to die.

I Ratant · 28th May 2012, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by autumn1971

It's okay. I don't believe they exist. . .

.
Don't ever go into the Fire Swamp!
Belief won't save you!

quarky · 28th May 2012, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by I Ratant

.
I saw a condemned film where the white girl in the jungle was the only female wearing a bra.
All the natives were free-jiggling.
It was a German film.. 'long 'bout 1958...
Us Catholic boys went to see it knowing it was condemned!
It was written in the school paper.
Some nuns had gone to it, not understanding the theme.. and were appalled!

You're a Catholic?
Christ, I should have known.

I saw Tarzan and his mate on TV in the late 50's or early 60's, and Jane did a nude underwater seen that almost popped my eyeballs out. How did the censors miss that? It was the first breasts I'd ever seen, not counting National Geographic.

sadhatter · 28th May 2012, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by quarky

You know what's scarier than quicksand?

A floating pool cover.
If you get on one of those, you start to sink and the plastic envelops you, like a hideous jelly-fish. Pretty dangerous deal.

Yeah, as a kid i had a very, very , exceedingly brief encounter with one, and to this day i honestly still have the odd dream about it.

Just that feeling like the second you throw an unlucky kick to try and get it away from you, your going to be enveloped, scary ****.

Halfcentaur · 28th May 2012, 04:09 PM

My brother and sister and I all got stuck in a pool of muck when I was around 9 years old. About 3 feet deep. It took me about 2 hours to get out of it, only 6-7 feet or so from the edge. I lost my pants and my shoes, my sister lost everything but her shirt. Luckily our shirts were pretty long and we were covered in mud. Had to walk home 2 miles. Our clothes and shoes are still under there, alongside the run off ditch from a turnpike.

I Ratant · 28th May 2012, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by quarky

You're a Catholic?
Christ, I should have known.

I saw Tarzan and his mate on TV in the late 50's or early 60's, and Jane did a nude underwater seen that almost popped my eyeballs out. How did the censors miss that? It was the first breasts I'd ever seen, not counting National Geographic.

.
I'd seen a couple of condemned movies before that one... and wondered WTF is the problem with the National Legion of Decency?
Didn't seen anything worth a mortal sin in any of them, and today, they'd be considered ho-hum, even on prime time tv.
The language was certainly a lot milder.

quarky · 28th May 2012, 08:05 PM

Domini Domini.

I will say 5 Hail Mary's for your sins.

27th May 2012, 07:36 PM	#1
h.g.Whiz Illuminator Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Egoville Posts: 3,075	Quicksand facts So, you can float free?
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27th May 2012, 07:45 PM	#2
marplots Philosopher Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 5,356	Not me, I'm too dense.
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27th May 2012, 07:49 PM	#3
Skeptic Ginger formerly skeptigirl Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Shifting through paradigms Posts: 40,497	It appears so.
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27th May 2012, 08:00 PM	#4
h.g.Whiz Illuminator Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Egoville Posts: 3,075	Originally Posted by marplots Not me, I'm too dense. What a pithyful shame.
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27th May 2012, 08:02 PM	#5
h.g.Whiz Illuminator Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Egoville Posts: 3,075	Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger It appears so. Are you finding out just now as well?
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27th May 2012, 09:39 PM	#6
Skeptic Ginger formerly skeptigirl Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Shifting through paradigms Posts: 40,497	Originally Posted by h.g.Whiz Are you finding out just now as well? Not sure what you mean. I was confirming my previous belief. You never know when some old myth suckered you in. Always best to check.
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27th May 2012, 09:43 PM	#7
marplots Philosopher Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 5,356	Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger Not sure what you mean. I was confirming my previous belief. You never know when some old myth suckered you in. Always best to check. I do not believe you are dense enough to be sucked in by old myths.
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28th May 2012, 02:53 AM	#9
catsmate1 Philosopher Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Dublin (the one in Ireland) Posts: 7,094	IIRC this was a point in one of Piers Anthony's books, you can float on quicksand.

28th May 2012, 03:38 AM	#10
Soapy Sam NLH Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 25,885	If sand is denser than water, then it can't be suspended in water, unless something is keeping it suspended. Most "quicksand" is actually mud. Clay. Clay chemistry is complex. Clays like montmorillonite expand enormously in water and can produce a viscous slurry that is simultaneously mobile and sticky. Get into it and you may have great difficulty getting out. Mix that with a running sand and you have something that forms a rather effective trap. Now add a bit of darkness, rain, possible local flooding and maybe garnish with tree branches and vegetation washing in ... and just relaxing and floating out may be a lot harder than it sounds. But the idea of being sucked under is false, except in the rare case of a mud / sand slurry overlying a deeper current. Thats more likely in mud slides or tsunamis. All in all, it's not at the top of my worry list.
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LibraryLady ...but not JUST a LibraryLady Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Building a house in the common ground Posts: 13,059	Don't worry, Tarzan will always rescue you.
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28th May 2012, 04:04 AM	#13
commandlinegamer Philosopher Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Mazes of Menace Posts: 5,886	Piles of grain are more like the stereotypical movie idea of quicksand in that workers in silos can easily be covered in a matter of moments if its flowing, e.g. the bin is being emptied.
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28th May 2012, 07:24 AM	#14
quarky Banned Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 20,454	I've stumbled into the stuff. The problem is, even though it is denser than we are, its still easy to sink down to your waste. I've had to be pulled out a few times.
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28th May 2012, 07:27 AM	#15
Dave Rogers Bandaged ice that stampedes inexpensively through a scribbled morning waving necessary ankles Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In a world lit only by fire. Posts: 17,894	Originally Posted by quarky The problem is, even though it is denser than we are, its still easy to sink down to your waste. I was about to correct your spelling, but given that falling into quicksand is pretty scary, you could be right. Dave
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28th May 2012, 08:45 AM	#16
Skeptic Ginger formerly skeptigirl Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Shifting through paradigms Posts: 40,497	Originally Posted by marplots I do not believe you are dense enough to be sucked in by old myths. When did you learn lemmings don't really commit mass suicide? Vitamin C doesn't cure or prevent a cold? You don't catch a cold from being cold? Betsy Ross didn't really sew the first flag? There are thousands of such myths that become 'common knowledge'. It's my principle to trust but verify if it isn't a fact I've recently checked. I fail to see what the problem is with that.
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28th May 2012, 08:46 AM	#17
Skeptic Ginger formerly skeptigirl Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Shifting through paradigms Posts: 40,497	Originally Posted by LibraryLady Don't worry, Tarzan will always rescue you. That's only if you're female.
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28th May 2012, 08:54 AM	#18
marplots Philosopher Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 5,356	Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger When did you learn lemmings don't really commit mass suicide? Vitamin C doesn't cure or prevent a cold? You don't catch a cold from being cold? Betsy Ross didn't really sew the first flag? There are thousands of such myths that become 'common knowledge'. It's my principle to trust but verify if it isn't a fact I've recently checked. I fail to see what the problem is with that. No problem, I botched a compliment, that's all. I remember the lemmings one. Busted two myths at the time as I recall. The first was about the rodents and the second was about film makers -- that they were honestly depicting what happened in nature.
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28th May 2012, 10:05 AM	#19
LibraryLady ...but not JUST a LibraryLady Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Building a house in the common ground Posts: 13,059	Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger That's only if you're female. Okay, Tarzan will always rescue me.
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28th May 2012, 10:13 AM	#20
Modified Illuminator Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: SW Florida Posts: 4,062	I spend a lot of time at a "lake", parts of which have at least ten feet of mud (the longest pole we've tested with) beneath one foot of water. If you fell in flat you could float or swim, but feet first and too far from the boat to hold on to it, and I think you'd be dead. Just walking out from shore as the sand gives way to mud, it gets pretty scary when you get into two feet of mud beneath two feet of water.

28th May 2012, 10:36 AM	#21
Hoppy Scholar Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 107	You can, and will, be sucked down to your death in quicksand but only if you are a villan. "Good guys" always have a rope/vine, sidekick, hot woman to save them. More often than not a good guy is able to save himself by strengh alone. Women seem to be totally immune to the evils of quicksand.
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28th May 2012, 11:42 AM	#22
quarky Banned Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 20,454	You know what's scarier than quicksand? A floating pool cover. If you get on one of those, you start to sink and the plastic envelops you, like a hideous jelly-fish. Pretty dangerous deal.
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28th May 2012, 12:19 PM	#23
Soapy Sam NLH Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 25,885	Originally Posted by commandlinegamer Piles of grain are more like the stereotypical movie idea of quicksand in that workers in silos can easily be covered in a matter of moments if its flowing, e.g. the bin is being emptied. Indeed so. Especially if there is air being blown in at the bottom to "fluidise" the grain (or other powder) for pneumatic transport. Dust and air is a damn nasty mix.
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28th May 2012, 12:28 PM	#24
Skeptic Ginger formerly skeptigirl Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Shifting through paradigms Posts: 40,497	Originally Posted by LibraryLady Okay, Tarzan will always rescue me. I will never forget one of those films from the 50s or 60s where the supposed jungle queen (a white girl, no less, but who was supposed to be surviving in the jungle just fine before the Tarzan-like hero found her, it may not have been Tarzan) was rescued on average about every 15 minutes throughout the movie.
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28th May 2012, 12:35 PM	#25
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28th May 2012, 12:45 PM	#26
quarky Banned Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 20,454	Originally Posted by Soapy Sam Indeed so. Especially if there is air being blown in at the bottom to "fluidise" the grain (or other powder) for pneumatic transport. Dust and air is a damn nasty mix. My son-in-law is an engineer that gets sent out to trouble shoot power plants. He told me of one job wherein there was a vat of tiny glass spheres. i forget what type of power plant, or the purpose of this pool-sized container of nearly-liquid glass balls...but he had to enter it to repair something. He ended up buying a cheap blow-up raft to get in there. i would have loved to know what its like to try to swim under that sort of artificial liquid...and if you could breathe under it, due to all the air in the spaces. i want a fake water swimming pool, and i want to breathe under the surface of it, and even sleep in it. Too bad the tiny glass spheres are so expensive.
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28th May 2012, 01:28 PM	#28
Tiktaalik Half True Scotsperson Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Colorado Posts: 1,979	Originally Posted by autumn1971 What about the R.O.U.S.'s? I don't think you can float out of an ROUS.

28th May 2012, 02:07 PM	#29
Skeptic Ginger formerly skeptigirl Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Shifting through paradigms Posts: 40,497	Originally Posted by Tiktaalik I don't think you can float out of an ROUS. My Google-fu finds either "Rodents Of Unusual Size" or the Rous sarcoma virus. Care to offer a third option?
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28th May 2012, 02:29 PM	#30
autumn1971 Graduate Poster Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,451	Originally Posted by Tiktaalik I don't think you can float out of an ROUS. It's okay. I don't believe they exist. . .
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28th May 2012, 02:33 PM	#31
autumn1971 Graduate Poster Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,451	Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger My Google-fu finds either "Rodents Of Unusual Size" or the Rous sarcoma virus. Care to offer a third option? First one. Bad Princess Bride reference.
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28th May 2012, 02:34 PM	#32
I Ratant Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 15,305	Originally Posted by Hoppy You can, and will, be sucked down to your death in quicksand but only if you are a villan. "Good guys" always have a rope/vine, sidekick, hot woman to save them. More often than not a good guy is able to save himself by strengh alone. Women seem to be totally immune to the evils of quicksand. . The tragedies occur when Tommy falls into the quicksand and the time Lassie takes to run home for help is too long, and Tommy goes under...

28th May 2012, 02:38 PM	#33
I Ratant Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 15,305	Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger I will never forget one of those films from the 50s or 60s where the supposed jungle queen (a white girl, no less, but who was supposed to be surviving in the jungle just fine before the Tarzan-like hero found her, it may not have been Tarzan) was rescued on average about every 15 minutes throughout the movie. . I saw a condemned film where the white girl in the jungle was the only female wearing a bra. All the natives were free-jiggling. It was a German film.. 'long 'bout 1958... Us Catholic boys went to see it knowing it was condemned! It was written in the school paper. Some nuns had gone to it, not understanding the theme.. and were appalled!

28th May 2012, 02:38 PM	#34
LibraryLady ...but not JUST a LibraryLady Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Building a house in the common ground Posts: 13,059	Originally Posted by autumn1971 First one. Bad Princess Bride reference. There are no bad Princess Bride references. Prepare to die.
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28th May 2012, 02:39 PM	#35
I Ratant Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 15,305	Originally Posted by autumn1971 It's okay. I don't believe they exist. . . . Don't ever go into the Fire Swamp! Belief won't save you!

28th May 2012, 02:50 PM	#36
quarky Banned Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 20,454	Originally Posted by I Ratant . I saw a condemned film where the white girl in the jungle was the only female wearing a bra. All the natives were free-jiggling. It was a German film.. 'long 'bout 1958... Us Catholic boys went to see it knowing it was condemned! It was written in the school paper. Some nuns had gone to it, not understanding the theme.. and were appalled! You're a Catholic? Christ, I should have known. I saw Tarzan and his mate on TV in the late 50's or early 60's, and Jane did a nude underwater seen that almost popped my eyeballs out. How did the censors miss that? It was the first breasts I'd ever seen, not counting National Geographic.
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28th May 2012, 03:42 PM	#37
sadhatter Philosopher Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 5,743	Originally Posted by quarky You know what's scarier than quicksand? A floating pool cover. If you get on one of those, you start to sink and the plastic envelops you, like a hideous jelly-fish. Pretty dangerous deal. Yeah, as a kid i had a very, very , exceedingly brief encounter with one, and to this day i honestly still have the odd dream about it. Just that feeling like the second you throw an unlucky kick to try and get it away from you, your going to be enveloped, scary ****.
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