Friday, October 8, 2010

A morbid conversation

P1: (Me and a group of friends sitting around a table)
Me: Say, out of all of us, who do you think will die first?
P2: Darcy: Julio, can't you think of something a little less morbid to talk about?
P3: Me: Oh, fine. Something more lively...
P4: Me: Who do you think will live the shortest among us?

P1: Me: So, who do you think?
P2: Ned: Calum.
Me: Why?
P3: Ned: He'll probably say something like "I can make this jump."
P4: Nick: "I can block this bullet with my skull."

P1: Me: I'll probably die early. My genes have provided me with poor health.
P2: Ryan: Julio! You shouldn't think like that! Think positive!
P3: Ryan: "I am living my life to the full! I am NOT dying!"
P4: Me: Well, technically I am.
Ryan: This is the type of talk we're trying to avoid.

P1: Darcy: Well, in my family all the women lived over 90.
P2: Darcy: Yet all the men died around 60.
P3: Julio: Well, women do live longer than men.
P4: Ryan: When I'm 80, I'm going to have a sex change.

P1 Me: What?
Ryan: If I change sex when I'm 80, I might get an extra ten years.
P2: Ned: So, when you're 80, you're going to have doctors surgically operate on your abdomen.
P3: Ned: This is going to make you live longer, how?
P4: Ryan: Wait 70 years, and then you'll see my genius.
Me: Well, I would probably be dead by then.

Imagine


On the ninth of October, 1940, one of the greatest musicians of humanity, certainly the 2oth century was born. He would grow up on the advent of rock, and would gather a group that would change music forever.

Happy Birthday, John Lennon.