Camp

So I've been away at camp for the past week, and therefore haven't been paying much attention to Only At IA. However, as you may have noticed, I have enough scheduled posts to keep it updating automatically all month, after which I'll be home to stay. I'll be home on the weekends as well, so I can answer your comments and all that fun stuff then:) Meanwhile, I have to make a quick exception to OAIA's most important rule: I'm going to talk about something that happened somewhere else. Indeed, that place is camp. The reasoning I'm using to justify this blatent deviation from the site's primary driving force is this: it's something that could have happened at IA...and if you get it, it's really, really funny.

At the end of each week of camp, we have a big picnic/slash/cookout to which all the campers and staff come. I was standing outside talking to another counselor named Brian, who is very linguistically talented. We had talked about some fun stuff the day before, like how to speak Denglisch (he also studies German), the rules of Russian Reversal, and the incredibly weird grammatical structure of the language he is in the process of writing. Anyway, at the picnic, he gave a metal chain to one of the campers standing around us, explaining that it was a reward: if a kid does something nice, they get to wear it for a day. He told us that it was completely unbreakable. Then:

Me: I bet the Flying Spaghetti Monster could break it.
Brian: Only if the teapot is aligned between the Sun and the Earth.
Me: No, the teapot is way out past Mars.
Brian: Prove it.

We both immediately, and quite literally, doubled over laughing. The kids, confused, could not decide whether or not they should be laughing too. We've told the story to several people that we thought would get it, and it's just as awesome every time.