{"id":3539,"date":"2007-12-17T21:38:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T04:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2007-12-17T21:38:56","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T04:38:56","slug":"apples-and-oranges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/17\/apples-and-oranges\/","title":{"rendered":"Apples and Oranges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being married to a professional botanist has its ups and downs. It’s nice on day hikes, for instance, having someone around who can instantly identify every plant we see. On the other hand, I don’t need to be notified of every ecological incongruence in the films we watch. The Queen spent much of the Lord of the Rings<\/em> trilogy leaning over to me in the theater and whispering, “pfff, I can see why they call this a fantasy–they have polystichum munitum<\/em> growing in a tropical upland climatic zone.”<\/p>\n

Last night we went to a wreath-making party last night. Our host provided us with wire frames, fir boughs, holly, and pine cones; before dinner, while I read stories to Squiggle and put him to bed, everyone else got all elfy in the garage.<\/p>\n

At the end of the evening we collected our wreath. Ours, while beautiful, was the least ornate of the bunch, consisting only of boughs. As we carried a sleeping Squiggle out to the car, I asked The Queen about this.<\/p>\n

Me<\/b>: Why didn’t you put holly in our wreath?<\/p>\n

Queen<\/b>: Because holly berries are poisonous, and when Squiggle saw them he pointed excitedly and yelled “cherries!”<\/p>\n

M<\/b>: Ah, good call. But what about the pine cones? You could have put a few of those on there.<\/p>\n

Q<\/b>: No I couldn’t. They were the wrong kind.<\/p>\n

M<\/b>: What do you mean?<\/p>\n

Q<\/b>: The boughs were from one species of tree and the pine cones were from another. It would look weird to have them on the same wreath.<\/p>\n

M<\/b>: What, seriously? Nobody would know but you.<\/p>\n

Q<\/b>: Yes, it would look weird to me<\/em>. That’s what I’m saying.<\/p>\n

M<\/b>: Oh, come on. What’s the big deal?<\/p>\n

Q<\/b>: Let me put this into terms you can understand: imagine if you went to a Star Trek<\/em> convention and saw a bunch of people dressed as Jedi.<\/p>\n

M<\/b>: Oh, god. Right. Gotcha.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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