Monday, September 6, 2010

Conversation with my father over dinner

*Roughly paraphrased

Me: I know what the difference between cobwebs and spiderwebs are.

Dad: What is it?

Me: Spiderwebs are made by spiders and cobwebs are made by male swans...
Dad: Swans make webs?

Me: Yeah, they're really big and sticky - no of course they don't!? (exchanges incredulous look with mother)
Dad: Well I don't know. It could have been a special term or something...



For a man who's actually very clever, he can be really thick...

Edit:

However, if swans did make webs, they'd probably look like this:


(
Note spider with web-jealousy, added in for comaparative purposes.)

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