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What kind of title is "Lawn Boy", anyway?

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This one was fun.

So Fark runs regular Photoshop contests, where a submitter posts an image or a theme and other Farkers then Photoshop (or GIMP or MS Paint or whatever) the original image and repost it. Sometimes they’re more artful, sometimes they’re political, sometimes they’re zany Fark in-jokes, and sometimes they’re just funny as hell.

I occasionally get involved, and the image above is one I did up for this thread, but it stood on its own pretty well as well, so I’m cross-posting.

Time to sink or graduate

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Picked this one up off of Fark, about students who can’t graduate until they prove they can swim 4 lengths of the pool, and I have to say I’m amazed.

Granted, I was raised by a man who spent four years in the Coast Guard, and who quickly taught me that learning to swim was critical to safety.

Despite a plethora of lessons when I was a kid, I also didn’t learn to swim myself until I was about 8 and my parents put a pool in the back yard. (Motivator!) I didn’t learn how to dive until I was about 13 and I’m not sure I could swim properly for four lengths myself.

But there are so many situations where knowing how to swim is critical here in the States. Too many pools, ponds, oceans, boats, etc.

If you don’t know how to swim, I urge you to learn how — especially if you plan to have kids of your own — you don’t want to be the helpless person standing on the shore while someone you love is in trouble.

And I applaud MIT and other universities for maintaining this graduation requirement.