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bitemetechie ([info]bitemetechie) wrote,
@ 2008-10-05 15:13:00

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Eddums gets paralyzed...
Adage: Noun. A traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation; proverb or maxim.

Everyone’s heard old adages throughout their lives. They’re simply inescapable. Those memorable metaphors that your grandmother repeated again and again to instill morals, teach lessons and give warning. Almost like miniature cautionary tales or after dinner mint sized pieces of priceless advice.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

No use crying over spilt milk.

Look before you leap…

All of them good, solid principles.

But while most old adages can be glossed over or all out ignored, a certain riddle themed super villain should’ve taken that last one in particular to heart.

Especially when the situation in which he should have recalled that bit of sage advice involved taking a flying jump down an elevator shaft.

In his defense, it was accidental. He certainly didn’t mean to leap through a set of open elevator doors and fall six floors…he was smarter than that. He had IQ tests to prove it.

However: when fleeing a burning building in a full blown panic, one tends to forget such silly, unimportant things as watching where you’re going.

Apparently, Firefly had it in for the same group of people that Edward had decided to use as his latest human clue, but like all


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