Shark wins, by the way.

Seriously? I sign up for Plinky hoping to get epic inspiration to spawn epic blog posts, and I get bear versus shark?

*facepalm*

I guess I'll go with shark, only because the question reminded me of a discussion we had at a family lunch a few weeks back. It's tradition in our family to get Chinese takeout on Saturdays and eat over at Mom and Dad's house with whatever siblings are available to attend. My younger brother is usually there, and is always full of stories and opinions to share. And I don't say that in the bad, eye-rolling sense. He's a fucking riot.

I don't remember how we got on the subject. Hell, it's the way of our people to flit randomly from topic to topic at gatherings, sometimes tackling two or three at once. It's how we roll. But somehow we got to talking about horror films, and my brother went off on a rant about how horrible Italian horror flicks really are.

Anyway, he starts talking about zoom lenses and one particular director who, in one film, shows what it would be like for a zombie to fight a zombie. And then, to top that, what it would be like for a zombie to fight a shark.

According to him, once you've seen it, you'll realize you don't care. Now, I haven't seen these fights, but considering we're talking about the slow, lumbering variety of zombies, I can only imagine how lacking in action those fights must be.

Oh, and in shark vs. zombie? Shark wins, by the way.

It was way funnier the way he told it, but I unfortunately didn't get that on video to show everyone. Wish I had.

But back to the question: If you want to get all technical, the only way there could actually be a fight between a bear and a shark is for the fight to be in water. If it were out of water, there wouldn't be a fight as much as a bear mauling a shark as it flopped around helplessly on the shore. And in water, shark definitely has the upper hand over bear.

But really, shark vs. bear? Who the hell thinks up these questions, anyway?