Wednesday, September 21, 2005

12 On, 12 Off

dan (on the seat to the left of the aisle on BART): It’s getting dark earlier.
dave (on the seat to the right of the aisle on BART): Yeah.
dan: Yeah.  The ehquinox is coming up soon.
dave: What?
dan: The ehquinox.  It’s coming up on September 21. 
dave: Yeah, the twenty-first.  But you called it, what, the ehquinox?
dan: Yeah, isn’t that right?
dave: I would have said “eequinox.”
dan: Yeah?
dave: Yeah, like “eequivalent,” or “eequate,” or “eequation.”
dan: “Eequilibrium.”
dave: Yeah.  But, “ehquus.”
dan: No, that’s a different root.  But, “eequator.”
dave: Yeah, “eequator.” “Eequivocate.”
random guy with a goatee sitting to dave’s right, in the window seat: “Ehquitable.”
dave: What?
RGWAGSTDRITWS: “Ehquitable.” What are you talking about?
dave: How to pronounce the name of that day that’s coming up when daylight and nighttime each take the same amount of time.
RGWAGSTDRITWS: Oh.  The eequinox.
dave: Well that’s what I said.  But he (pointing to me) pronounces it “ehquinox.”
RGWAGSTDRITWS: Interesting. 

(brief pause)

dan: Hey, you know what we should do for the ehquinox?
dave: “Eequinox.” No, what?
dan: We should all drink ehqui nog.

(extended silence)

Have a good one, people.  Keep your lamps trimmed and burning.  The night time is the right time, dontcha know....