A conversation about interracial marriages turns to geology in Bitches:

Shir: Actually, thinking about it for a second: I have Hungarian, Polish, English, Lebanese, Israeli and German blood in me - and that's just up to the grandfathers' generation. One more up and there are countries which don't even exist today.

Mixing rocks.

Jessica: Mixing rocks.

Anyone else just have a Willow moment?

(Mix rocks? Why would anyone want to - oh.)

Jars: No! No mixing rocks! Sedimentary rocks with sedimentary rocks. Volcanic rocks with volcanic rocks. Metamorphic with metamorphic!

Shir: Racist!

Ginger: Rockist!

Polter-Cow: Geologist!

Ginger: But sedimentary rocks are already mixed.

Aims: NO EXCEPTIONS!

amych: I am shocked and saddened by this display of Tectonic Supremacism in our midst.

Jars: See what can happen? It's a slippery slope! And do sedimentary rocks last? Do they? A few million years and they weather away!

Ginger: They don't stand by their principles! Under pressure, they become entirely different rocks.

P-C, I would include this, too, in with the Rockist! Racist! bits, as it is part of what made me snicker.

Polter-Cow: Geologist!

I wanted to include it, but I felt weird COMMing myself. I'll stick it in to break up Ginger's.

I kinda thought you might feel that way, that it might help to validate it for you.

Or to make her look craxy. That's always worthwhile.

Pulling one piece out of a very serious conversation but:

Shir: I think that we've established that people are totally wrong.

billytea: I discovered this morning that he understands "Where are the penguins?" in Chinese. My son!

Ginger: It's probably the sentence he's heard most often, along with "Where are the echidnas" and "Who's a little naked mole rat?"

In Bitches:

Nora Deirdre: You are not responsible for my mental health!

Steph L.: Actually, I control it from afar.

Teppy answers Jesse in Natter about email literacy:

Teppy:

It makes me wonder what other people are sending out, you know?

"U hav orG chrt? i need. Thx."

"--Chester Chesterton MBA, VP Communications"

Conscience do COMM

In Movies, Le nubian discusses dog-whistles for Wire fans.

I just want Obama, one of these times, to come out whistling "The Farmer in the Dell."

Then I will know it is on like Kong and I need to pack up the food and my electronics and hightail it to Canada. ETA: Edited to add the correct Wirefiend Buffista.