Can't wait for the sequel to the VeggieTales movie "King George and the Ducky" in which King George's son starts out his reign with much wisdom, only to outdo his father's greed by accumulating 1,000 rubber duckies, before eventually realizing toward the end of his days that it was all vanity.

So a herdsman just ran onstage saying basically, "My young mistress! Surprising news! Two nice young men just arrived onshore! They would certainly make a pleasant offering, a sacrifice to our goddess, Artemis! Come, Iphigeneia, quickly, prepare the rites for the blessing and their purification!"

... I feel like Iphigeneia was expecting that speech to go on differently when he told her there were two nice young men just arrived. As though the opening scene in Pride and Prejudice went like this:

MRS BENNET: My dear! Mr Bennet ! Wonderful news! Netherfield Park is let at last! By a single man of large fortune, my dear! He came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place. His name is Bingley, and he will be in possession by Michaelmas, and he has 5,000 a year! What a fine thing for our girls.

MR BENNET: How so? How can it affect them?

MRS BENNET: Oh, Mr Bennet , how can you be so tiresome? You must know that I’m thinking they might bring him to the altar as a sacrifice. To Artemis, naturally.

MR BENNET: So that is his design in settling here, to ritually spill his blood in a pleasant manner?

MRS BENNET: Design? Oh how can you talk such nonsense?

LMAOOOOOO

Two of the main fish that we breed at work are clownfish and dottybacks, and in most of the tanks in boodstock we have a clown pair and a dotty pair. Recently I have begun to think of them as the opposites of each other. Hear me out okay

Clownfish are all born male and the largest one in a group becomes the dominant female. She protects the territory and defends their nest from predators and rivals, while the smaller male tends to the eggs. Sometimes they fight but a happy, bonded clownfish couple is a force united, both of them prepared to keep their eggs safe at any cost.

Dotties are all born female and the largest one becomes the male. He is also territorial and defends his nest violently if necessary. But, he is also the sole caretaker of the eggs. The female dotty has no parental instincts whatsoever. In fact, part of the reason male dotties are so territorial is because the female is a predator. She won’t hesitate to turn around and eat the eggs she just laid. So, even the most chill dotty couple is in a constant tango of paranoia over the possibility of the female sneaking in and eating her own children. Even if the two have lived together peacefully for years, he has no problem ripping her apart if she gets too close to his nest before the eggs hatch.

It’s like a house with a happy loving couple on one floor and their downstairs neighbors are in a fight to the death because the wife was trying to eat their kids again.

Pick a lock : Lockpick
:: Cut a hair : Haircut
:: Reuse a chart : Chartreuse

~ Modern Manners and Social Forms, Mrs. Julia M. Bradley, 1889

Don't smack people around at balls

My Summary of The Blue Castle so far:

ALT