If Worms Had Machine Guns, Birds Would Be Scared Of Them
BY Herschel Smith
9 years ago
Perspective from the sports world:
Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh has a way with words, and he proved that again Monday.
Speaking to reporters, Harbaugh said he doesn’t deal with “ifs” and “thats” before coming up with a crazy “if” scenario.
“If worms had machine guns, birds would be scared of them.”
Well, sure. Worms probably can’t do a whole lot with a machine gun, but I get your point.
On the surface it appears to be a completely random phrase. Even Harbaugh seemed unsure of its origins saying, “Somewhere along the way I got it in my brain.” So where did this phrase come from? It appears it came from a children’s book title, “If Worms Had Machine Guns.”
So if you read the summary of the book, it has to do with making do with what you have. There’s a lesson in that for us all, but one has to wonder whether what the feds are thinking is a little darker. We can’t let them have machine guns because then we would be scared of them, whereas now we can eat them up as we wish. Hence, GCA and NFA.
But the analogy breaks down in who is the bird and who is the worm. In our case, the worms do have the machine guns, no?
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