Whoops!

This should have been a comment to Monkey Courage’s post on how buildings fall, but it just got too image and link heavy to deal with. Anyway, the falling buildings reminded me of this demonstration of how women fall, which is (admittedly) kind of creepy, but less Victorian than it sounds.

Speaking of falling, why is it that the Presidents who were the biggest jocks can’t seem to remain upright? Gerry Ford was probably the best athlete to ever hold the office, and thanks to Chevy Chase, he’ll always be remembered as the guy who took a header down the steps of Air Force One.
And our current President, despite a fairly balls-to-the-wall (or not) history on the Rugby pitch doesn’t seem to be a whole lot better at staying on his feet.
According to this CNN article the current administrations history of presidential falls is as follows:

1)January 2002: The President fainted for a brief time in the residence of the White House while eating a pretzel and watching a professional football game on television. He suffered a bruise to his lower lip and a scrape on his left cheek bone.

2)June 2003: While attempting to operate a Segway personal transportation device President Bush somehow fell over the handle bars but was uninjured. Physically, that is. The picture probably hurt his pride a bit.

3)May 2004: Bush fell off of his bicycle while riding on his ranch in Crawford, TX and received minor abrasions to his chin, upper lip, nose, right hand and both knees. Luckily he had been wearing both a helmet and (no shit) a mouth guard.

As you would expect with all of this inadvertent gravitational interaction, people are bound to have a bit of fun. Of course when you are the President, there’s really only one kind of fall that matters.