Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for August 14, 2010
Transcript:
Alix: Holly, you can't deny what you saw in the pool! Holly: Oh, yes I CAN. I was probably delusional from a lack of oxygen. Holly: I'll never admit to seeing, a WHALE in your baby pool, because that would make ME a crazy person. Alix: They called Marco Polo a crazy person. Holly: That's because he invented a really dumb game.
I think “Marco Polo” is akin to “Snipe Hunting”. Just another way to have fun at the expense of someone else. Just look how much money this family is saving, thanks to the imagination of (some) of their children.