Just Another Working Saturday….
Jeff VanderMeer • April 19th, 2008 @ 11:09 am • Uncategorized
Ann: “How many liters of blood are there in the human body?”
Jeff: “I dunno. Eight?”
Ann: “Specifically in a child’s body. I need to know.”
Jeff: “Want me to look it up on the internet?”
Ann: “Please.”
April 19, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Lol. I ask the same kind of questions. My sister is a doctor–one time I asked her “What would happen if your brain exploded?” “Your brain wouldn’t explode.” “But what if it did?” “I don’t know. You would bleed out of the ears.”
April 19, 2008 at 4:38 pm
You two lead such interesting lives.
April 20, 2008 at 1:25 pm
It’s those sweet nothings couples whisper to each other, the sharing, that makes a successful relationship.
April 20, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Oh gods I feel for that conversation. My fiance is a geologist and I was working on a story a few years ago and needed her opinion. So from two rooms away (down a long hall, through space occupied by our then 2 roommates) we yelled the following back and forth:
Me: “Belle? How far down do you have to bury a body before the pressure of the dirt on top of it makes it pretty much impossible for someone to identify?”
Her: “How big is the body?”
Me: “About two hundred pounds, give or take twenty.”
Her: “What kind of soil?”
Me: “Uh.. its sort of local, so a lot of clay I guess?”
Her: “Eight or ten feet, especially if it gets run over by a lot of heavy construction machinery.”
Me: “So like.. under that new road their building about a mile over?”
Her: “Yeah, just like there. *evil laughter*”
I stepped lightly for the rest of that week.
April 20, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Funny, this exact question came up on a listserve I belong to.
April 21, 2008 at 10:09 pm
And here the most I ever wanted to know was how long a car hood would stay hot after an engine that’s been running several hours has been shut off in a pouring rainstorm. (I’m thinking one of those old time 1940s cars like you see in detective movies.)
April 21, 2008 at 10:13 pm
That seems more complex than the bluuuud question!
April 22, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Well, Jeff, I suck at writing, but I do come up with ideas now and again – and for me that question would actually prove the innocence of a murder suspect. (The engine was still hot, the rain was steaming as it hit the hood, therefore they were telling the truth when they said they were “driving around for hours” during the time the murder was commited.)
Never did get an answer. Probably a good thing anyway as I can’t write worth a darn. I’m a singer, not a novelist! LOL