James: “Did you get that link about platypus…es…platy…platypus I sent you from work?”

Me: “No.”

James: “Really? It was about how they have like thirty chromosomes that determine their sex.”

Me: “Neat! Where was it?”

James (dithering): “Uh…lemmee think…uh…maybe…no…uh…maybe…uh…try…”

Me (oblivious as usual): “Look, I’ll just google “platypus sex”…there we go…”

*pause*

Me: “Man, we really just dodged a bullet on that one, didn’t we?”

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996568