» Messing with people's heads

The littlest wookie
We had a lovely Japanese lady doing a post-doc in our lab, who was very small and very quiet. At a conference, I told everyone who'd listen the surprising fact that despite her tiny stature and retiring nature, she did an amazing Chewbacca impression. She was so shy though that she'd only do it if she was really drunk. For three nights, I watched people she'd just met (including, at one point, a couple of bikers) buy her drink after drink (that she was too polite to refuse) and beg her to "do Chewie", while she pleaded with them in broken, slurred english that she didn't know what they were talking about. Which was true, because she'd never even heard of Star Wars.
(Sat 14th Jan 2012, 14:07, More)

» What nonsense did you believe in as a kid?

Poultry is hard
Well into adulthood, my father believed that turkeys were grown-up chickens.
(Sat 21st Jan 2012, 19:59, More)