LOB STER STICKS TO MAG NET (ya ya ya ya!)
Feb. 22nd, 2015 05:29 pmI just closed 17 tabs about lobsters!
Why did I have 17 tabs open about lobsters? Well you see, I was at a party which had about 12 people all in the same room. This was enough that we were mostly having multiple small conversations at a time, but sometimes they would converge into one big conversation.
JB and I were having an excellent discussion on whether you can make lobsters flip upside down using iron filings and magnets1, and other people were discussing the history of hamster dance vs whistlestop. Out of the corner of my ear, I hear![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ratatosk say the phrase "English Country Lobster Dance".
Okay, that's a fucking beautiful phrase. I want you all just to take a moment and say it aloud to yourself, because it really is a lovely thing. Almost immediately, the conversation turns to what a great thing that would be, and a heartbreaking disappointment when it is revealed that a google search for such nets no results.
Conversation continues for three or four minutes. WAIT! I say suddenly, loudly. My fingers fly into action: [lobster dance capering and kickery]. AH-HA! I declare! Of course! The Lobster Quadrille!
We very nearly rolled up the rug and danced it then and there, but alas, it requires being by the seaside, and also, lobsters. But between citing my sources about lobster-magnetism, and searching up some Charles Dodgson texts, I wound up with 17 open tabs about lobsters.
It was a very good party.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: I was mentioning a Fun Fact that my dad told me ages ago, that I wasn't positive was actually true, because while my dad is mostly a legitimate person, he is also a dad. Anyways, SOURCE MO'FOS! If you raise lobsters in a space with iron filings instead of sand, and then hold a magnet above them, they will flip upside down! I leave the "how" as an exercise for the reader.
Why did I have 17 tabs open about lobsters? Well you see, I was at a party which had about 12 people all in the same room. This was enough that we were mostly having multiple small conversations at a time, but sometimes they would converge into one big conversation.
JB and I were having an excellent discussion on whether you can make lobsters flip upside down using iron filings and magnets1, and other people were discussing the history of hamster dance vs whistlestop. Out of the corner of my ear, I hear
ratatosk say the phrase "English Country Lobster Dance". Okay, that's a fucking beautiful phrase. I want you all just to take a moment and say it aloud to yourself, because it really is a lovely thing. Almost immediately, the conversation turns to what a great thing that would be, and a heartbreaking disappointment when it is revealed that a google search for such nets no results.
Conversation continues for three or four minutes. WAIT! I say suddenly, loudly. My fingers fly into action: [lobster dance capering and kickery]. AH-HA! I declare! Of course! The Lobster Quadrille!
We very nearly rolled up the rug and danced it then and there, but alas, it requires being by the seaside, and also, lobsters. But between citing my sources about lobster-magnetism, and searching up some Charles Dodgson texts, I wound up with 17 open tabs about lobsters.
It was a very good party.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: I was mentioning a Fun Fact that my dad told me ages ago, that I wasn't positive was actually true, because while my dad is mostly a legitimate person, he is also a dad. Anyways, SOURCE MO'FOS! If you raise lobsters in a space with iron filings instead of sand, and then hold a magnet above them, they will flip upside down! I leave the "how" as an exercise for the reader.
