You could have a myth of shrimp in a world without shimp.
People would think -t was like one of those alien abductees.
Can I mop your brow? I am at the ready with the fearsome brow-mop.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Dec 01, 2009 7:08:12 pm PST #22377 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
-t - Dec 01, 2009 7:14:32 pm PST #22378 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I wouldn't have thought that fat-stealing story would get weirder, but it has. How very strange. Top organized crime investigators just, apparently, making things up.
I don't think I'd go around talking about shrimp. I'd just be sad and wistful and unable to explain why. Maybe that would be better, to sing the praises of the delicious imaginary crustacean, but as an alien to their universe I would be afraid of drawing attention, I think.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2009 7:17:31 pm PST #22379 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There is a world without dragons where there are no paintings of dragons or stories of dragons or dreams of dragons. It is not this one. This is a world without real dragons.
Komodo don't count.
-t - Dec 01, 2009 7:18:33 pm PST #22380 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
In that case, if I did go to the universe without shrimp, I would never know.
Burrell - Dec 01, 2009 7:26:10 pm PST #22381 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Maybe, CJD?
Unfortunately that makes me think of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
Er, that's probably just me.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2009 7:31:00 pm PST #22382 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not anymore.
Heather Locklear's lipwork has messed up the way she talks. I wonder if that bothers her.
Burrell - Dec 01, 2009 7:34:41 pm PST #22383 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh sorry. Should I whitefont that one?
bon bon - Dec 01, 2009 7:35:57 pm PST #22384 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Bob lives in such a world. He became allergic as an adult. I keep telling him that shrimp just is not that good anymore -- sometime when shrimp got cheap it got chewy and tasteless.
Ginger - Dec 01, 2009 7:36:27 pm PST #22385 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
If I didn't look so much like my sisters, I'd SWEAR I was adopted.
I don't look much like my family. There's no chance I was adopted, but I'm still holding out for switched at birth.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2009 7:49:54 pm PST #22386 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Adult onset allergies are cruel. At least most of my developing migraine triggers also become unpalatable. Missing the fact of shrimp is worse than missing the idea of beef jerky.
My mother insists I was switched at birth. With an alien family.