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Tonight's odd quotes explained
Mar. 18th, 2007 09:30 pmI just got to explain to a friend online why Karl said "Meanwhile Miles is trying to centrifuge a rubber duck."
The duck is actually a combo floaty-rubber-duck and thermometer. Karl got it to replace the old thermometer that died at Jamie's birth. It looks like this ----->
The tub used to have a duck that looked just like that, but without the thermometer. Dark sunglasses, head bobbing back and forth - we named him Stevie Wonduck. So this thermometer was named Stevie too.
Last time I'd pointed out that it seemed to be insisting the tub was over 130 F. I found this improbable. Karl took it out. There was a big air bubble under the mercury. I found out a couple of days ago that Karl dealt with this by shoving it into the ice cube container in our freezer. Then yesterday on the way to the party, at a stoplight, I mentioned getting ice out, and said "by the way, Stevie would like to know, very politely, what did the chicken do?" Karl laughed hysterically.
(http://www.johnsjokes.com/animal.html 4th down, in case the punchline didn't mean anything to you)
Anyway, they got it out tonight, and Miles looked at it, and said "apparently it's 135 degrees in your freezer. Who knew?" and as I've been laughing hysterically at the whole situation, has been variously attempting to try to get the mercury shaken back down.
The duck is actually a combo floaty-rubber-duck and thermometer. Karl got it to replace the old thermometer that died at Jamie's birth. It looks like this ----->
The tub used to have a duck that looked just like that, but without the thermometer. Dark sunglasses, head bobbing back and forth - we named him Stevie Wonduck. So this thermometer was named Stevie too.
Last time I'd pointed out that it seemed to be insisting the tub was over 130 F. I found this improbable. Karl took it out. There was a big air bubble under the mercury. I found out a couple of days ago that Karl dealt with this by shoving it into the ice cube container in our freezer. Then yesterday on the way to the party, at a stoplight, I mentioned getting ice out, and said "by the way, Stevie would like to know, very politely, what did the chicken do?" Karl laughed hysterically.
(http://www.johnsjokes.com/animal.html 4th down, in case the punchline didn't mean anything to you)
Anyway, they got it out tonight, and Miles looked at it, and said "apparently it's 135 degrees in your freezer. Who knew?" and as I've been laughing hysterically at the whole situation, has been variously attempting to try to get the mercury shaken back down.
