Young and Confident

The other morning my wife and I were doing a "reverse Gatsby"; we were discussing when the shortest day of the year-- the Winter Solstice-- would occur, and this confused my son Ian, and so he asked, "So today isn't forty-five hours long?" and he spoke with such confidence that I really had a hard time breaking him the news that there were only twenty-four hours in a day.
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6 comments:

  1. DanimalDecember 28, 2011 at 8:38 AM

    at first i thought a "reverse Gatsby" was some sort of sexual position.

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  2. zmanDecember 28, 2011 at 8:53 AM

    AWL.

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  3. T.J.December 28, 2011 at 12:22 PM

    Yep.

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  4. DaveDecember 28, 2011 at 3:59 PM

    if the "reverse gatsby" were a sexual position, it would happen in the red light district with a girl you never wanted to copulate with in the first place.

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  5. T.J.December 28, 2011 at 4:48 PM

    East Red Light District? Or West Red Light District?

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  6. ClarenceDecember 28, 2011 at 6:12 PM

    I don't think the people employed in red light districts are that steeped in American lit. It'd probably be called a "reverse Dick and Jane."

    Overseas I believe it's called "going out for Chinese."

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