Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Teams are teh dum

Siamese twins are a team. A bunch of dogs can get a dog-sled and become a team. Humans, pretty much can't be a team. Teams are composed of individuals. The twins and their canine counterparts are not individuals, but rather an amalgam of two humans and a loose collection of four-legged furry killing machines devoted to the singular purpose of pulling a sled. Ergo it follows that humans being neither twins nor dogs are not members of a team. If further proof is required, ask bacteria. Currently there are trillions within your body, eating, dividing and dying as you read this. Are bacteria part of a team, NO. Each has self-serving, narcissistic views of the world. They care not for the well-being of other bacteria, and indeed are likely unable to even conciously know another bacteria exists. Therefore, like humans bacteria are not team players, as they are part of an individual human, whom we have previously shown to not be part of a team. The point to all this talk about team and individually is rather obtruse, but to be clear, it is neither obfuscated nor othagonal to the discussion of whether a herd of siamese twins would indeed blindly follow the leader in a plunge to their deaths over towering cliffs while pursued by a team of dogs trailing a unguided sledge. The answer to that question is of course, sixteen. Sixteen happens to be both the number of siamese twins capable of hurling themselves over a precipise before the ensuing media frenzy results in the aforementioned canines spontaneously shedding their fur in a fit of empathetic self-flagilation. At any rate, I do wish you well, and bid you greetings from the wonderful insular pennisula of Montenegro.

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