Why is meat on fire?
Here's a cross-cultural train-wreck in progress:
My mother's cousin is visiting from Sweden with his wife and three kids. The children are 11, 8 and 7. The oldest, a boy, speaks enough English to talk to us. All three are still a little out of sync with the local clocks, and they've taken to flipping thorugh our cable channels late at night, looking for cartoons.
Smart boy already learned which channels are Nick, Disney and Cartoon Network. And now I'm faced with the possibility of explaining ATHF to a young Swede.
"Um, so this Dr. Weird lives in New Jersey--" No.
"He's got this gem in his back, and--" No.
"They solve mysteries, except, um, they suck and mostly they explode and play mean tricks on each other. And Carl."
Translate that into the six U.N. languages, whydontcha.
My mother's cousin is visiting from Sweden with his wife and three kids. The children are 11, 8 and 7. The oldest, a boy, speaks enough English to talk to us. All three are still a little out of sync with the local clocks, and they've taken to flipping thorugh our cable channels late at night, looking for cartoons.
Smart boy already learned which channels are Nick, Disney and Cartoon Network. And now I'm faced with the possibility of explaining ATHF to a young Swede.
"Um, so this Dr. Weird lives in New Jersey--" No.
"He's got this gem in his back, and--" No.
"They solve mysteries, except, um, they suck and mostly they explode and play mean tricks on each other. And Carl."
Translate that into the six U.N. languages, whydontcha.