...and such is the insular geeky nature of my family.
S. said Saturday night, "I know what a clone is. But what's a cyclone?"
It wasn't because of Myanmar that she was asking - we don't have TV, don't take a paper, and D hadn't yet read about Nargis in the Japan Times online, nor had I yet heard about it on NPR.
We'd been watching an episode of "Jeeves and Wooster" and the word came up.
And of course, R. speculated that a "cyclone" might be a cyber-clone.
World events? Meteorological phenomena? not a clue
BBC comedies? Replicants? oh yeah, we got that covered