Today we are all so, so tired from the lack of sleep on the overnight train ride back from Moscow to St. Petersburg. So, so tired. And then we have classes. Some conversations from this morning follow. Also a poll.

Number one.

Maria (pronounced "Mariah"): I took a taxi home.
brainwane: You taxiied home?
M: No, I took a taxi home.
b: I see. Because you're not an airplane.
Siri: As we can tell, since she does not have any plane features.

One should note that, upon my laughter, Siri disclosed that she had not realized that she had made a pun.

Number two. A number of us were having a conversation about vitamin pills and the tendency to megadose on vitamins and minerals as different as molybdenum and C.

Susanne: I don't know what good it does to take more than your body needs. I mean, it just ends up... (gestures down)
brainwane: My urine is worth nine dollars an ounce at the recycling center.
S: What?
b: It's a line from a song.
S: You just sounded so serious.
John: Deadpan humor!
b: Yes. Putting the "dead" in deadpan. Putting the bedpan in deadpan.
J: Keep this up and you'll have a Tonight's Episode.
b: I think I already did.

I really am working on the huge, huge entry/entries to document my excursion to Moscow.

Poll:
Would you go on a Soviet roller coaster?

• Yes, for all the rubles in brainwane's pockets, or even without
• No, not even for all the rubles in brainwane's pockets

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Originally published by Sumana Harihareswara at http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/7/10/52631/1548