Wow.

[conuly]

Walked into my corner store yesterday. The man behind the counter was expounding on the sun, specifically the fact that the sun was dying (!) and had been replaced with a counterfeit sun - five counterfeit suns, to be exact (!!), and this is why the plants were no longer photosynthesizing correctly (!!!!!) and why there was moss on them.

This is where I spoke up. "That's not moss, it's lichens."

(What? Did you think I was going to argue with the rest of it? Yeah, no.)

Comments

[conuly]

Would it surprise you to hear he not only didn't know the difference between lichens and moss, but he has an amazingly idiosyncratic definition of "photosynthesis"?

[sonia]

Didn't expect the particular idiosyncrasies, but not at all surprised to hear that his responses were idiosyncratic. Everything's true, for certain definitions of the words involved, right?