First off, Lestrade is a low down dirty deceiver who let me think he'd got that chemistry joke on his own while I banged my brain on it for two hours.
Second, Jessica has provided us with a non-baking math joke, which is also perhaps the most groan-worthy joke I've ever heard in all my life. Answer in the comments of the previous post (assuming I got it right):
RO
OT
Third, here is an actual conversation we had at breakfast this morning.
Me: Why is Mycroft wearing a colander on his head?
Sherlock: I was going to eat his brains.
Me: ...Why?
Mycroft: He was being a zombie.
Sherlock: They eat brains to get smarter.
Me: You don't see a lot of smart zombies.
Sherlock: Because they haven't eaten enough brains. Brains are full of protein.
Me: Well, the myelin is more fatty, really... But yes, fair point about the protein.
Mycroft: Protein doesn't make you smarter.
Sherlock: It's better than chocolate. People eat brains. Can we eat brains? Not people brains.
Me: ...If you can talk Lestrade or Mrs Hudson into cooking them, yes, but I am not going to cook brains.
Right. I'm off to email Lestrade about this. After the discussion about human organs in our fridge, I wouldn't want him to be surprised by brains, even if they're clearly not people brains. (I find I'm actually looking forward to this; I've never had brains. Also if I type the word brains one more time it will cease to have any meaning. Brains. Brains. Brains. Grr, argh.)
Second, Jessica has provided us with a non-baking math joke, which is also perhaps the most groan-worthy joke I've ever heard in all my life. Answer in the comments of the previous post (assuming I got it right):
RO
OT
Third, here is an actual conversation we had at breakfast this morning.
Me: Why is Mycroft wearing a colander on his head?
Sherlock: I was going to eat his brains.
Me: ...Why?
Mycroft: He was being a zombie.
Sherlock: They eat brains to get smarter.
Me: You don't see a lot of smart zombies.
Sherlock: Because they haven't eaten enough brains. Brains are full of protein.
Me: Well, the myelin is more fatty, really... But yes, fair point about the protein.
Mycroft: Protein doesn't make you smarter.
Sherlock: It's better than chocolate. People eat brains. Can we eat brains? Not people brains.
Me: ...If you can talk Lestrade or Mrs Hudson into cooking them, yes, but I am not going to cook brains.
Right. I'm off to email Lestrade about this. After the discussion about human organs in our fridge, I wouldn't want him to be surprised by brains, even if they're clearly not people brains. (I find I'm actually looking forward to this; I've never had brains. Also if I type the word brains one more time it will cease to have any meaning. Brains. Brains. Brains. Grr, argh.)
13 comments:
I know in my family home country they have a dish called Monkey Brain Soup which is made out of monkey brains. It's a delicacy. Then again, I'm not surprised since this is the same place that eat cats and guinea pigs.
Actually, not all zombies eat brains. Not to mention, it depend on the type of "zombie". There the normal zombie which is slow moving. The infected zombies which move a little fast. Last, but not least, the most scariest, the mutant zombies. These are fast moving, bloodthirsty and far mare intelligent than the either two.
Besides, the reason eat flesh/brain is to try and stop the decomposition of their bodies. Plus, they're working off their baser instincts that constantly demand food.
Yes, I clearly know too much about this subject. -_(\
I once ate pig brain soup and surprised myself by really enjoying it. I had managed to dodge the whole pig slaughter weekend event, but when I got back on Monday they said they saved the best part for me. By the time it got to the soup though the brains had the consistency of any other ground meat so if you didn't know you wouldn't know. But I am fairly confident they weren't pulling my leg.
You did get it right, good job. It is groan-worthy, yet funny in spite of itself.
The conversation with the boys made me laugh. I was down at my parent's house this weekend, and was babysitting my brothers (ages 7 and 10). I walked out on the front porch and saw both of them fairly high up in one of the trees in the front yard.
Me: What are you two doing up there?
Robert (who is 7), in tones of deepest disgust: The ground is made of lava.
Me: Right. Get out of the tree when it solidifies and cools off.
Then I step off the porch to check on the horses out in the pasture, and the horses in the barn, and they promptly decide I'm a lava monster.
Anyway, good luck with the brain enterprise. :)
just when i thought my crush couldn't get any bigger, you go and throw in a firefly reference. *hearteyes*
So, Zombies. A very, very, serious topic. The colander isn't such a bad idea, but what you want around is a good machete; nothing hacks through a zombie's flesh quite like one. I have one in my kitchen for just such an occasion (great for opening up packaging too).
The Zombie Survival Guide isn't such a bad thing to have around either, or just basic reading-up on the various mythos of the zombie.
Also, here is a song about zombies and the troubles of dealing with co-workers.
Jonathan Coulton's Re: Your Brains
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/music/thingaweek/ReYourBrains.mp3
P.S. Ever heard of Humans Vs Zombies? NERF? :]
P.P.S John, I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry...sort of.
Jessica - Ha. Well if you could walk on the lava and not burn up OBVIOUSLY you were a lava monster! That's just logic. ;)
justblue - All this time all I needed to get the ladies was Firefly references? If only I'd known sooner!
Dear Trista,
John says no machete. :( He ordered me the Zombie Survival Guide off Amazon though, I'm very excited. I like the song but I think a mall is maybe a good place to be locked in depending on the kinds of shops, there might be lots of weapons and food. Better than being locked in a office building at least.
--Sherlock
Trista - I do not believe you are sorry AT ALL. (I'm sort of looking forward to the Survival Guide too.)
Sherlock - They eat guinea pigs in Peru. Oddly enough, they are quite tasty and prepared in different ways. It also chock full of nutrients. (I will still never eat in again, since I was horrified to find out what it was.)
Well. the only monkeys that are cute, at least to me, are capuchin monkeys. Every other monkey, not so much.
John- I was a little sorry...
Guinea pigs are tasty and super easy to keep as a food source. My grandpa has a couple hundred of them running around on his property and I get him to butcher one up every so often. It's just really hard for most people to get past the idea of them being pets, and you don't eat pets you eat farm animals, but they make a lot more sense than say rabbits (easier to keep).
Dear Book Geek,
We are doing reports on countries at school and cooking dishes from them to bring in and I'm going to do Peru now even though John says he doesn't think my teacher will let me bring in guinea pig (even though it doesn't have nuts so it's not against the rules) but it sounds like a interesting country anyway. Thank you.
--Sherlock
Trista - Lestrade is balking at the cute factor, I think. He feels the same about rabbits. You wouldn't think it to look at him (but it's rather sweet). As for me, I had vicious childhood bites from both species and wouldn't mind eating the little sods one bit.
Post a Comment