chalk and cheese
what happens when chalk and cheese try to co-exist?
imagine a piece of chalk trying to live in the dairy compartment of the refrigerator. what is it going to do there? with no board to scribble on, no charts to draw, no powdery floors to roll around in. instead, the air is damp all the time, and artificial light flickers on and off at random. it is dark most of the time. and it is cold at all times. chalk begins to feel soggy from the condensation going on constantly. slowly, it might disintegrate into nothing...
now, how about the cheese moving to the chalkboard instead? regardless of what kind of cheese it is, it is probably not going to last very long outside of the refrigerator. however, if it is brie or camembert, it will perish even faster. chalk powder will also stick to the cheese in uncomfortable clumps, and the poor cheese will be too polite to try and get them off (even if it was possible to).
cheese might try to join in the local activities of writing on the chalkboard. it will then smear itself all over and ruin the playground for everyone. chalk and cheese may even fall out over this.
one might argue that leaving cheese intact with its white wax coating will allow it to sit amongst the chalk powder with chalk quite happily. but come on! who's going to let a nice piece of cheese stay like that forever? surely it must be sliced and enjoyed?
can chalk and cheese ever reach a compromise?
or perhaps, some things are just not meant to be?
imagine a piece of chalk trying to live in the dairy compartment of the refrigerator. what is it going to do there? with no board to scribble on, no charts to draw, no powdery floors to roll around in. instead, the air is damp all the time, and artificial light flickers on and off at random. it is dark most of the time. and it is cold at all times. chalk begins to feel soggy from the condensation going on constantly. slowly, it might disintegrate into nothing...
now, how about the cheese moving to the chalkboard instead? regardless of what kind of cheese it is, it is probably not going to last very long outside of the refrigerator. however, if it is brie or camembert, it will perish even faster. chalk powder will also stick to the cheese in uncomfortable clumps, and the poor cheese will be too polite to try and get them off (even if it was possible to).
cheese might try to join in the local activities of writing on the chalkboard. it will then smear itself all over and ruin the playground for everyone. chalk and cheese may even fall out over this.
one might argue that leaving cheese intact with its white wax coating will allow it to sit amongst the chalk powder with chalk quite happily. but come on! who's going to let a nice piece of cheese stay like that forever? surely it must be sliced and enjoyed?
can chalk and cheese ever reach a compromise?
or perhaps, some things are just not meant to be?
posted by valkyrie at 2:03 AM
1 Comments:
Hmm. This is a toughie. If they really are chalk and cheese, then you're probably right: how could they co-exist?
But that's assuming that the labels are accurate. Are you sure it's "chalk and cheese"? Because if you are, then the conclusion is foregone. Isn't it?
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