Tink: Look! I found my rock!!!
Mum: Is that your pet rock honey?
Tink: Uhunh. You wanna pet it?
Me: Why don't you give it something to eat honey, you always need to feed your pets.
Tink: Yeah. Leaf for lunch. (Runs off with a fallen leaf.)
Me: Don't rocks need minerals, not vegetables?
Mum: It's a vegetarian.
Didn't you know? That's the real reason for the deforestation of the Amazon: it's the rocks they have down there--a particularely savage type. One can never be too careful around a clump of rocks...
ReplyDeleteA particularly savage type of--um--vegetarian rocks? Wouldn't the carnivorous ones be a bit more worrisome?
ReplyDeleteWell, we might as well blame them for that 'global warming' thing as well, eh? Darned rocks eating all our nice trees.
Andy: ROFLOL. And I always thought it was such fun to climb about on them and play King of the Stone? I never knew... I could have been dead... but now I know and will be extremely careful!
ReplyDeleteMyeia: Carnivorous rocks don't have teeth... only dangerous if they can open their mouths wide enough to smush you.
Yep. There's pretty much nothing we can do about global warming because it's not actually our fault at all. We should kill those bad Amazonian rocks.
I ought to warn you though: Hawaii is home, as Alaska is as well, to carnivorous rocks. (Mountains, actually.) They kill their victims with heated saliva rather than smushing them. Also known as volcanos. Very dangerous.
-Laura
Carnivorous basaltic rocks will some day strike in this little town in Colorado due to the eager picks of miners.
ReplyDeleteEeew, drooled to death by a carnivorous rock . . .
ReplyDeleteTheophilus: I think I'm going to have to march down to CO and tell you and your friends to behave!
ReplyDeleteJhaniel: Sorry for the image... Maybe I shouldn't have said that.
-Laura