Whos idea was this?
Posted July 12, 2007
I can understand why Phoenix was named after a creature that keeps burning up. Someone told me that it was 116 Fahrenheit, or shitloads celcius today. What I can't understand is this: the pioneers of the old west, with their wagons and their horses, bravely battle the elements, valiantly defend themselves against hostile natives (or callously wipe out a peaceful indigenous species, depending on your history books) and travel in a strange land for months, even years, before coming to a place with temperatures that would make a snake sweat, no natural shelter, no obvious supply of fresh water and precious little vegetation. At this point, one of the leaders stops, ties his horse to one of the sturdier looking shrubs, takes a good look around and says "This looks good, let's stop here." I, for one, would have slit the bastard's throat.
I guess it's either my version of events or all the horses dying and the poor buggers having to make the best of a bad job. Either way, here we are.
I think I hear Chupacabras howling in the distance..
Rob x
