erratum and snippets

First off, read CatR's somewhat painful but very worthwhile comments on my previous post. I really should learn to stick to commenting on stuff that I know about and leave things I don't know about (i.e. anything to do with human beings) alone.

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On a lighter note, funny conversation snippets from the past week:

One of my housemates, SN, works in a "worm lab" - one that uses Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for experiments. I did a bit of lab work with them in college, but never got technical.
me: So, how do you tell the difference between males and hermaphrodites?
SN: Well, the males' tails are flattened, and they have a lot of little hairs on them to clasp on to the hermaphrodites, and they move around more...
me: Yeah?
SN: ...because they're always looking for the vulva!
As a comment on males, that's probably applicable to more than worms.

The following story happened to the person who inspired/instigated my rather incoherent "whore of Babylon" post a few weeks ago:
EK: I've got a girlfriend now.
friend: Yeah? Where on the Internet did you find her?
EK: -_-
friend: I'm kidding, man, I'm kidding. So where did you meet her?
EK: On the Internet.

JB is a Singaporean who spent about six years of his childhood in Malaysia. We occasionally have arguments over who is better/worse off, Malaysians or Singaporeans. I sent him an article about a guy called Eddin Khoo who's trying to save Kelantanese culture from PAS.
JB: Hey, I got your email. See, at least that proves that at least the opposition can win in Malaysia.
me: But it's an opposition composed of religious fundamentalists!
JB: At least they're the opposition, right. Here the religious fundamentalists are in power!
me: ROTFLMAOZEDONG

This one I heard from my sis when I told her I met someone whose father worked with Navigators: A bunch of Christian workers are driving around Singapore trying to get to a meeting.
A: Which way do we turn at this junction?
B: How should I know?
A: Well, you're the navigator.
B: I'm not a Navigator, I'm InterVarsity.

When JB heard that one he said, "For many years my grandfather thought my dad worked on a ship."