We’ve all heard the story for so long, and now some people actually put the tortoise and hare to the test. Will slow and steady really win the race?
Life imitates art, Arne.
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We’ve all heard the story for so long, and now some people actually put the tortoise and hare to the test. Will slow and steady really win the race?
Life imitates art, Arne.
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In this case, slow and steady did prevail. I tend to think the bunneh was distracted by the noise. Also, bunnehs do things on their own time schedule, not the hoomins.
Yep, bun was definitely distracted by the noise and people!
That was so funny! Poor bun-bun was so distracted. Or maybe he was just posing for his picture.
Funny I never realized before that the “life lesson” is a little different in English from the original French fable.
The story is the same but the original last line in French is : “rien se sert de courir, il faut partir à point”, in English it would be : “it’s useless to run if you start the right way”. The emphasis is on when you start, that’s not exactly the same as “slow and steady wins the race”.
The story of the Tortoise and the Hare predates the French version you learned, so the French fable is not “the original”; but that doesn’t mean the English version I grew up with is “the original” either. How do I know? I just looked it up …
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tortoise-and-hare-versions
Cutetropolis is very educational!
Of course I’m partial to “slow and steady wins the race” having grown up with it, but the moral of the race posted above seems to be “Don’t get distracted, or you won’t be first to reach some human-defined target.”
I stand corrected.
I’m grateful to learn there’s more than one version of (and moral to) this fable. I had no idea; I love learning stuff like this. So thank you!
I was about to say, I’m pretty sure ancient Greece predated France.
I’ve read that scientists figure the old fairy tale The Smith and the Devil dates back about *six thousand* years. It was likely first told in Asia Minor, in the Proto Indo European language. This language is the common ancestor of Latin, German, Gaelic, and Sanskrit. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35358487
I see the problem here, they used a rabbit instead of a hare 🙂
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And they used a LOP! They are not the most active except for certain times of day = tho’ a lot of lops do agility, so what do I know.
Then there’s this dog with no attention span whatsoever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMzXYK4zhz0
that’s so hilarious – I expected a big “BURP” at the end.