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Sep. 12th, 2008 09:35 amOn the way to work this morning, I heard a mother explaining Plate Tectonics to your small child:
"...and it causes all the mountains, and hills, and ripples in the land. All that from two countries banging together"
Being the creature of filth and darkness that I am, I dropped the word "together" from the end of that, and got a whole new theory of political geography...
"What happens is that two countries who love each other very much get certain urges, and the mummy country gets a big mountain in her middle, then after it gets big enough, out pops Luxembourg"
"...and it causes all the mountains, and hills, and ripples in the land. All that from two countries banging together"
Being the creature of filth and darkness that I am, I dropped the word "together" from the end of that, and got a whole new theory of political geography...
"What happens is that two countries who love each other very much get certain urges, and the mummy country gets a big mountain in her middle, then after it gets big enough, out pops Luxembourg"