To start this off, you should probably know that I love romance novels.
Tessa Dare is a must-buy for me, even at list price at the grocery store. (Usually in penance for not keeping up with when her next book comes out.) In her recent novel, Romancing the Duke, the heroine keeps up a written correspondence with a mysterious stranger, in which they pose absurd hypotheticals to each other. Since reading the book, I’ve pondered the following hypothetical numerous times:
Would you rather battle one hundred rat-sized elephants, or one elephant-sized rat?
Tell us, Dear Reader, we’re DYING to know.
(And if you want to read some Tessa Dare, which of course you do, you can find all of her books on her website.)
13 replies on “Lunchtime Poll: Silly Hypotheticals”
I <3 Tessa Dare.
100 rat-sized elephants, obv. But I would prefer a rap battle, or something non-wounding, because (a) little tusks! and (b) I like Rachel’s idea about teaching them to do stuff.
Little tusks! Look how cute this one is and it’s not even rat sized!
Yup. I totally need coffee. I totally read that as trunks. Little trunks. Little tusks…also adorable. But trunks! :-D
Rat-sized elephants! And I’m going to check out Tessa Dare, too!
DO! You absolutely won’t regret it! (I hope.) Start with Spindle Cove or The Wanton Dairymaid Trilogy.
A Week to be Wicked is kinda/sorta set in Scotland Juniper!
Easy. Rat-sized elephants. But do I have to battle them? They would be so adorable.
Plus, elephants are really smart, so we could probably train them to do some really awesome things! Get the pen that rolled under the chair, use their tiny tusks to scratch my feet, the possibilities are endless!
I give you leave to refuse to battle them provided you train them to build a tiny elephant pyramid.
YES!
My new to-do list:
1. Find 100 rat sized elephants…maybe a Kickstarter?
2. Train dogs to NOT eat rat sized elephants (also, train cat, if possible, probably not possible, so train elephants in the art of self-defense?)
3. Train elephants to make a pyramid
4. Convince elephants to scratch my feet (they get itchy when I can’t sleep, so weird)
5. ?????
6. Become a millionaire!
7. Hire someone to do all the other stuff on my to do list that I ignored cause the Tiny Elephant Kickstarter consumed all my time :)
Step 1: Get elephants.
Step 2: PROFIT!
THAT’S how that meme goes! I’m crap at remembering shit like that, but fortunately I usually get close enough that other people can figure it out :). I’m pretty decent with names though-I think that takes up most of my memory brain cells :P
8. Find all of the cute baby elephant gifs that exist on the internet. (Note: I’ve spent the last ten minutes of my morning beginning this very task).