Middle Gel: Why the heck do we have to learn the Pythagorean theorem? When am I ever going to need the Pythagorean theorem? Why can’t they teach us practical things like how to keep a bank balance or how to buy a house?
Self: Just learn it. You never know when some mugger might jump out of an alley, put a gun to your head and demand an explanation of it.
M.G.: DAAA-aaad!
Self: Hey, if it happens, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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January 20, 2013 at 6:11 pm
captainned
Robbo:
Scarily enough I’ve had the exact same conversation with my gel.
Methinks your Old Gentleman and my father would have gotten on just swimmingly. Did the OG ever do random World Capital tests at dinner?
January 21, 2013 at 6:14 pm
Robbo
No, his dinner shtick was to pick a subject at random – the arts, theology, the headlines of the day – and Lay Down Da Law about it, thus sparking a debate that usually devolved into metaphorical crockery-heaving. What drove me the craziest was never knowing whether the stances he took were his real beliefs or whether he was just trying to get people riled up.