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The Three Bears

May 9, 2008
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So, I can get past the supposition that there is a family of bears. I can get past the supposition that these bears talk. And that they have built a home. And eat cooked porridge. And sleep in beds.

I can accept all that as a fabrication of an anthropomorphic story.

But I simply can't accept that Mama Bear's (no, not Mamma Bear) porridge was too cold. See, Mama Bear's bowl was the middle size: smaller than Papa's and larger than Baby's. It makes thermodynamic sense that Papa Bear's porridge was too hot, since it was the largest bowl. But Baby Bear's porridge would be the coolest if each bowl was left to sit out and cool uninhibited. Mama Bear's bowl would have to be under a fan or on ice or something to have cooled down the temperature of her porridge below Baby Bear's.

*sigh*