It's like in those cartoons, when there is water on the other side of the otherwise water-tight fence, and a little plug bursts out and hits charactar "A" in the head, and he looks quizzically at it and just happens to have a plug like mechanism with which to stick in it. At this point the parallel begins to break down, as other holes pop open, and the charachter doesn't have any more plugs (toes and fingers are often used it seems) and so the fence falls down and water comes tidal wave style to fill the land.
It's like...
Date: 2002-03-03 08:10 am (UTC)Yup.