my good friend emma and i like to share the occasional phone call. not very often, as i prefer talking in person or texting, but we do sometimes indulge ourselves a long couple of hour chitchat on t'old dog and bone. and when we do so, hilarity ensues.
take for instance this little snippet of a recent conversation:
emma: "did you see that james may on the moon programme last night?"
sian: "no but i heard about it. wasn't he like going to the moon or something?"
e: "...yes. anyway, you know those spinny g-force things they test astronauts in?"
s: "yeah, they're awesome."
e: "i get to go in one of them if i get in at nasa."
s:"seriously? WOW. you have to send me a postcard."
e: "i'm not entirely sure nasa has a giftshop."
s: "course they do. but if they're sold out, you could make one, i just want the picture of your face whilst on that thing."
e: "fair enough, that would be pretty funny."
s: "i'll frame it."
e: "but then you won't be able to see the writing on the back."
s: "it's okay, they'll have invented cloning by then."
e: "cloning?"
s: "yeah, so i can have the original picture side up and then the copy in another frame so i can read the back."
e: "...OR you could photocopy it, that technology's already been invented."
s: "...oh, yeah, i could do that. *both dissolve in laughter* i guess it would be pretty hard trying to feed a tablet to a piece of paper."
e: "a tablet? is that how cloning works?"
s: "i dunno, they haven't worked it out yet, have they?"
e: "i think they have actually."
s: "really? well this is an interesting development. how do you know?"
e: "well they cloned that sheep."
s: "what, from a sheep?"
e: "...yes. it was called dolly, remember?"
s: "oh, yes! i think i do. that albino thing, yeah?"
e: "...er, no."
s: "well what was that then?"
e: "i have no idea..."
s: "huh."
good times.
