Posted

Jul 28th 2008

(12:13:02 PM) glmathgrant: I went to Dallas on Friday.
(12:13:15 PM) glmathgrant: We even got a haircut at some Wal-Mart on our way over there.
(12:13:38 PM) glmathgrant: While my mother was paying, I made small talk with the woman who cut our hair.
(12:14:07 PM) glmathgrant: Me: Why are you wearing a lowercase t on your neck? Is that your first initial, a lowercase t?
(12:14:19 PM) glmathgrant: Mom: . . . . That's a cross.
(12:14:57 PM) glmathgrant: I still insist that it was a lowercase t.
(12:15:39 PM) glmathgrant: After all, Naughts and Crosses uses O's and X's, not O's and t's.
(12:19:12 PM) ProjectylNPL: *tilts head 45 degrees*
(12:19:58 PM) glmathgrant: Hmm. X does bear a passing resemblance to t when rotated 45 degrees.
(12:20:46 PM) glmathgrant: But it bears a stronger resemblance to a plus sign.
(12:21:09 PM) glmathgrant: And this lady was not wearing a plus sign. The bottom part of the t was longer than the other parts.
(12:21:40 PM) glmathgrant: Maybe it was originally a plus sign, and three of the arms got broken.
(12:21:50 PM) glmathgrant: So her first initial could be X, or a plus sign.
(12:22:30 PM) glmathgrant: Or maybe it's her middle inital. Francine Xavier O'Brian.
(12:22:47 PM) glmathgrant: Or Francine +avier O'Brian.
(12:23:03 PM) glmathgrant: Of course, Francine tavier O'Brian remains a possibility.
(12:23:57 PM) ProjectylNPL: Or Francine pogostickavier O'Brian.
(12:24:24 PM) glmathgrant: . . . duh. How could I have been so blind?
(12:24:33 PM) glmathgrant: That's got to be it.
(12:32:40 PM) glmathgrant: While we were in Dallas, we ate pizza at Crystal's, which has the best pizza I've ever had at a pizza place that also has an arcade. We didn't partake of the arcade, but we had the pizza, of course.
(12:33:15 PM) ProjectylNPL: Crystal's as in "Crystal's 'family'"?
(12:33:23 PM) glmathgrant: Yes, that one.
(12:33:26 PM) glmathgrant: We saw a bunch of children and a few adults; my mother inferred that the children were in a day care center, and the adults were their caretakers.
(12:34:57 PM) glmathgrant: And they all had red pogo sticks on the backs of their shirts! I thought they were t's at first, but now that I know what they really were, it all makes sense. Apparently, they use pogo sticks there. Sounds like fun exercise for the kids -- I'd want my kids there!
(12:35:34 PM) glmathgrant: The pogo sticks even had magnificent wings on them. I guess they highly revere their physical activity.
(12:37:16 PM) glmathgrant: There was some kinda text underneath them; all I caught was the word "Galatians" and two numbers separated by a colon. According to Wikipedia, Galatia is an ancient city; maybe the kids learn about that city's residents at said day care. And the numbers might represent what time the learning takes place.
(12:37:59 PM) glmathgrant: *shrug* It's all a mystery to me.
(12:38:13 PM) ProjectylNPL: Or they reside there at certain times. "Hey, we're Galatians at [times x and y]!"
(12:38:26 PM) glmathgrant: Yeah. I suppose so.
(12:38:47 PM) glmathgrant: Except it's an ancient city. So they'd need to travel there on a time machine jet plane.
(12:39:01 PM) ProjectylNPL: Which I want.
(12:39:10 PM) glmathgrant: I concur.
(12:40:19 PM) ProjectylNPL: Commute time would always be zero; you could deduct the time it takes to fly to a place when you were picking the destination time.
(12:40:52 PM) glmathgrant: It'd be like the warp pipes in Mario!
(12:40:56 PM) ProjectylNPL: Like taking an hour flight that crosses a time zone line, only BETTER.
(12:41:04 PM) glmathgrant: YEAH!
(12:41:13 PM) ProjectylNPL: And it works in either direction!
(12:41:18 PM) glmathgrant:
(12:41:35 PM) glmathgrant: I'm moving to Dallas. When I have kids, I know which day care I'm using!
(12:42:45 PM) glmathgrant: In my childhood, I was relatively deprived of pogo sticks and time machine jet planes; I won't let my offspring undergo the same torturous existence!









(P.S. Anyone who responds "It is a cross, you dumbass! You're a Christian; you should know about your own religion's symbols!" will be sent a T-shirt that says "I completely missed sarcasm and all I got was this stupid T-shirt".)





Addendum:
(3:59:08 PM) groza528: So all I have to say to get one of those shirts is "It is a cross you dumbass! You're a Christian; you should know about your own religion's symbols!" correct?
(3:59:26 PM) glmathgrant: Yep.
(3:59:35 PM) groza528: sweet
(3:59:48 PM) groza528: It is a cross you dumbass! You're a Christian; you should know about your own religion's symbols!
(3:59:56 PM) glmathgrant: We're sold out.
(4:00:05 PM) groza528: Now do I get *two* shirts for also not noticing you were being sarcastic about the shirt?
(4:00:09 PM) groza528: I mean
(4:00:11 PM) groza528: crap
(4:00:55 PM) glmathgrant: You'll have to wait for the next shipment. We get shipments on February 30, September 31, and on days when the post office is closed.
(4:02:39 PM) groza528: Days when the post office is closed? Sweet; that's less than a week!