What is the sound of one jaw dropping? Oh, that'd be it right there. Convenient that.
At first he thinks she's just plain crazy, but then he remembers that not everyone is from Earth, no matter how Earth-Looking they might be. Silly Ex-turtle and your planecentrism.
"Well...okay. Um. Right. A turtle is a...here, I can draw it better than I can explain it."
He grabs a napkin and the pencil behind his ear. He draws a circle with four small ovals at the ten - two and four-eight positions. With a larger oval at noon, and a tiny triangle at six.
"They look sort of like that, and can be any color from green to brown to even black depending on species. As for virgin, in this case it means a drink that doesn't have alcohol. Like your smoothie, for example. ... Sex? That ones not nearly as easy to define. It really depends on where you stand on a whole lot of different things."
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Oh, that'd be it right there. Convenient that.
At first he thinks she's just plain crazy, but then he remembers that not everyone is from Earth, no matter how Earth-Looking they might be. Silly Ex-turtle and your planecentrism.
"Well...okay. Um. Right. A turtle is a...here, I can draw it better than I can explain it."
He grabs a napkin and the pencil behind his ear. He draws a circle with four small ovals at the ten - two and four-eight positions. With a larger oval at noon, and a tiny triangle at six.
"They look sort of like that, and can be any color from green to brown to even black depending on species. As for virgin, in this case it means a drink that doesn't have alcohol. Like your smoothie, for example.
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Sex? That ones not nearly as easy to define. It really depends on where you stand on a whole lot of different things."