Day 2: What a Silly Pinkie Pie · 9:40pm Sep 19th, 2020
Not much progress for today: this Saturday was all about family. And work. Quite a bit of work too.
Should have more to report tomorrow. For now, all I got is a silly little scene reminding Applejack to be careful about using figures of speech near Pinkie Pie.
“This,” said Applejack firmly, “is a whole different thing.”
“How come?”
“Cos it’s apples and oranges,” said Applejack. “You just can’t compare ‘em, OK?”
Pinkie looked thoughtful for a moment, then beamed proudly. “They’re both fruit!”
Too late, Applejack saw the warning signs and jumped in: “Yeah, uh, Pinkie –”
“And they’re round, and they grow on trees, and they both have seeds in them – ooh, and vitamins and minerals and stuff – and they’re extra juicy! Berry Punch can do things with apple-orange cocktails you just wouldn’t believe!”
“No, Pinkie, Ah’m tryin’ to make a point here –”
“I know! And you can make tarts out of them, and sometimes you get those apples that are kinda red and kinda yellow so it’s like an orange in the middle. And, and, aaannnd you can bounce them!”
“Pinkie.”
“Whee, this is fun! OK, and you can peel the skin off, and you don’t eat all of them, and they both taste good dipped in a chocolate fountain –”
“Pinkie!” Applejack straightened her hat, but part of her made a note to try the chocolate fountain thing when she got back home. “My point is that you just can’t compare the two. They’re too different.”
“Of course you can. You can compare anything with anything. If you couldn’t, how would you ever know they were different at all?”
At which point, Applejack wisely refrained from engaging in sudden Pinkie Philosophy. Regular philosophy was mind-bending enough.
“Can we just get back on topic, please?” she pleaded.
Pinkie frowned under the shifting gears of confusion. “I thought I was?” she said.
That's all for now, folks! Impossible Numbers, out.
Pitch-perfect Pinkie. Hitting wisdom by walking backwards through silliness until you hit the other end.