9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for March 26, 2009
Transcript:
Thorax says, "On my world, nuptuals are performed by the joining of hands and looking deeply into each other's eyes with the light of love and eternal fidelity. Then you both would be immersed naked in baga fruit preserve and tied to a gung tree heavy with aromatic wasp nests." Thorax says, "The stingers, they say, make your wedding night one of calisthenic desire, somewhat tempered by agonizing screams and the smell of rotting baga fruit." Edda says, "On our would we exchange vows and rings." Thorax says, "Well if you're going to get obscene."