We're like this all the time.

[scarylullabiez]

Ya kinda had to be there, but here's a standard conversation between myself and Alejandro.

Alejandro: Are you a native?

Me: Of what?

Alejandro: MmmmmmmmMatacuvia.

Me: Well, I don’t know where that is, so probably not.

Alejandro: But maybe you were ripped from the arms of your Matacuvian parents as a baby.

Me: It’s possible.

Alejandro: And now you spend your days searching for your long lost family.

Me: I like my parents here just fine.

Alejandro: But your Matacuvian parents give you money. For free.

Me: So do these parents.

Alejandro: Yes, but they give you more! In rubies and diamonds!

Me: Well, number one, I prefer pearls, and number two, I don’t think the religious climate in Matacuvia would welcome me. And then my Matacuvian parents would angst about how I was unruly and didn’t fit in.

Alejandro: Matacuvia is the most tolerant nation on the planet.

Me: Well –

Alejandro: They hate everyone, but they tolerate them.

Me: Well, when the object of your hatred is all of humanity, you don’t have much choice but to tolerate them. What are you going to do, eradicate everyone?

Alejandro: At one time, they tried to eradicate all of the other people they hated. But it didn’t work, so they figured, whatever, we’ve got to tolerate them.

Me: If they tried to kill everyone, then I don’t want to live there.

Alejandro: They didn’t try to kill them, they tried to eradicate them. By building a giant spaceship. Long ago they sent several thousand people into space. And those people are now called Spacies. Kevin Spacey. Sissy Spacek. ...No, wait.

Comments

[modillian.livejournal.com]

:D :D :D

I have the feeling I'd very much enjoy a conversation with your brother.

My dad and I sometimes get into theoreticals like this, but a shot less involved. He probably would have derailed into converting the worth of diamonds versus pearls and shipping problems to Matacuvia and we'd never find the real conversation topic again.

In other news, we have a duck nest with eggs in our backyard. In a few weeks we'll see ducklings everywhere! :D :D :D

[scary-lullabies.livejournal.com]

Yes, my brother is quite awesome. We have very good talks. (We had the best conversation ever about the death penalty the other day.)

Ducklings! I want the ducks living in the fountains at work to have ducklings! They're so damn cute when they follow their mama around! Pictures, take pictures!!

[knivey.livejournal.com]

Can we swap brothers at least for a little while? Mine's a dull historian. But he's got good abs.

[scary-lullabies.livejournal.com]

Brotherswap it is! I am also a dull historian (or a history major anyways) so I have a feeling I would get along with your brother. :p