things you hear at parties
In this case, kickindancer's 30th birthday! Happy birthday!
Her husband put so many candles on her cake (cake INFERNO!) that she became concerned that blowing them out would set off the smoke detectors.
This is what you get when you have a bunch of nerdy scientists and other associated teachers, lawyers and liberal arts types:
"I can't believe you neuter your own pet rats!"
"How cool would it be if we molted out our first brains, like cicadas, and wandered around headless 'til the next one grew in?" (not that cicadas do this, mind you.)
"... and these rogue elephants were killing people by knocking on the doors and waiting til they came out. Knock, knock, who's there? Landshark."
"... and this guy, during the Manhattan Project who held two halves of a plutonium core apart with a screwdriver -- and then it slipped."
I won't even quote the bizarre tangent discussions on mouse and human cannibalism. Use your imagination. I did, however, bring up the exploding cane toads. However, I don't think anything beats the title I found while googling for an article about them: Cane Toads Explode From Beyond the Grave.
Her husband put so many candles on her cake (cake INFERNO!) that she became concerned that blowing them out would set off the smoke detectors.
This is what you get when you have a bunch of nerdy scientists and other associated teachers, lawyers and liberal arts types:
"I can't believe you neuter your own pet rats!"
"How cool would it be if we molted out our first brains, like cicadas, and wandered around headless 'til the next one grew in?" (not that cicadas do this, mind you.)
"... and these rogue elephants were killing people by knocking on the doors and waiting til they came out. Knock, knock, who's there? Landshark."
"... and this guy, during the Manhattan Project who held two halves of a plutonium core apart with a screwdriver -- and then it slipped."
I won't even quote the bizarre tangent discussions on mouse and human cannibalism. Use your imagination. I did, however, bring up the exploding cane toads. However, I don't think anything beats the title I found while googling for an article about them: Cane Toads Explode From Beyond the Grave.