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[featherynscale]

Someone in the lunch room at my office today said, in what appeared to be perfect seriousness, "Evolution can't be true. If evolution were true, then why are there still monkeys?". And then, to my horror, everyone else sitting at the table agreed that that was a good point.

They noticed me staring. It would have been hard not to. They looked over. I said, "It's true, then, what they say about science education in Kansas being sorely lacking."

And then I went on with my lunch and my book, which, scoring a point for irony, is about dinosaurs pretending to be human in modern-day New York.

Comments

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose the anti-evolution people must work somewhere. Sorry that it's got to be with you.

[lightonthesill.livejournal.com]

Am on the phone with lulumai and just read her your post. She suggests you get a stand up gig - saying you could be the Dennis Miller of our time (pre republican of course)

Wow. Thanks, lulumai!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I'd say I can only be funny when something horrible's going on, but these days, something horrible's mostly always going on, so the material is appallingly easy to come by.

[duriyah.livejournal.com]

That is deeply disturbing. Your quip, though, is superb. Well done.

[starwyse.livejournal.com]

Double kudos for the comeback!

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

Is the book something rex, about private detectives? I swear I read something like that but my brain has died and curled up and refuses to respond to prodding.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Anonymous Rex, by Eric Garcia.
It's not bad at all, but it is damned absurd.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

The problem with reading so many books, so fast, is I can remember plots sort of, but authors and actual titles are gone in the misty recesses unless is really stands out. That one stood out enough to remember something about it, but not enough to really go...oh yeah!

Wow...

[zanzaboonda.livejournal.com]

I really wish I had something funny to say to this, but I can only say congrats on the snappy comeback. I can never think of them until hours later, lol.

And that book sure does sound interesting! I'll have to look it up now...

[malvito.livejournal.com]

People like that are living proof of evolution.

After all, they demonstrate that, given enough time, shit can walk and talk.

Sorry, feeling a tad intemperate ... back to regularly scheduled mild-manneredness.

[hekatatia.livejournal.com]

Excellent response. Sounds like that's the creepy co-worker table. =/

[chronarchy.livejournal.com]

You get a point for that. No question.