IM'ing with another blog-friend:

ME: It's strange to finally talk to someone you've been reading for years.
HIM: It's kind of like making the blog talk back.
ME: That, and like the subservient chicken. Only not.
HIM: There are so many possibilities for that one. Next there'll be subservient mouse, belligerent turtle...
HIM: Although I don't know how belligerent a turtle could be.
ME: Hey, if you had grown up down South with the snapping turtles, you'd know *exactly* how belligerent a turtle can be.