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I'll stop eating beef lamb and pork the same day they start letting me eat vegetarians.
Dude, there's lots of stars in that pic. Lots of them. And two meteors and trees and what appears to be a body of water off in the distance.
No matter what happens, no matter what my last words may end up being, I want everyone to claim that they were: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
Aww, you guys rock. I feel the love... and the pitchforks and torches. Tingly!
We're talking about two different things, wishing upon a star and wishing upon a shooting star. Both are things, just two separate unrelated things.
Quote from: rookie on January 26, 2015, 02:08:43 amWe're talking about two different things, wishing upon a star and wishing upon a shooting star. Both are things, just two separate unrelated things. Every time I have heard the "wishing upon a star" tradition it has referred to a shooting star. I have never heard anyone saying that you could make a wish to a real star before I saw that demotivational.So when the creator of the demotivational said that the star you made a wish to "has been dead for millions of years" I assumed (s)he thought that shooting stars are millions of light years from Earth because otherwise the sentence makes no goddamned sense. You can see the meteor burning in the atmosphere and it certainly is not happening millions of years in the past.
Quote from: askold on January 26, 2015, 08:01:21 amQuote from: rookie on January 26, 2015, 02:08:43 amWe're talking about two different things, wishing upon a star and wishing upon a shooting star. Both are things, just two separate unrelated things. Every time I have heard the "wishing upon a star" tradition it has referred to a shooting star. I have never heard anyone saying that you could make a wish to a real star before I saw that demotivational.So when the creator of the demotivational said that the star you made a wish to "has been dead for millions of years" I assumed (s)he thought that shooting stars are millions of light years from Earth because otherwise the sentence makes no goddamned sense. You can see the meteor burning in the atmosphere and it certainly is not happening millions of years in the past.You've never seen "Pinocchio"? Or heard the nursery rhyme, "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight/I wish I may, I wish I might/Have this wish I wish tonight"?