Strange Conversations: Part Twenty
Posted 1 July 2008 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
To provide context, I am addicted to Wii Tennis, as result of which I think I have Wii-Tennis elbow.
NICK (freshly home from work): How are you?
ME: I think I’ve done myself an injury.
NICK: A ninja-ry? Is that like when you’re a ninja . . .
ME: Go away.
NICK: . . . . and you have an accident. Like, you drop a shuriken on your foot.
ME: What type of ninja would drop a shuriken on his foot?
NICK: Well, not a very good one.
Previously: The Dangers of Coffee
Next: Strange Conversations: Part Twenty-One
Share your thoughts [4]
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Tim wrote at Jul 1, 01:24 pm
I’d have thought it was an injury inflicted by a ninja, just as a dog bite is a bite inflicted by a dog.
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Catriona wrote at Jul 1, 09:32 pm
But as Nick’s refining of the point demonstrates, he didn’t really think the definition through in the first place.
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Tim wrote at Jul 2, 01:54 am
If Nick was a ninja and he cut himself shaving, would that be a ninjury or just a nick?
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Catriona wrote at Jul 2, 02:11 am
Congratulations! A comment that very nearly (but very, very nearly) made me break the rule of a lifetime and write “LOL.”
(Still laughing, actually.)