OddThinking

I hate trying to be funny to a deadline.

I was going to write this:

Dear Kelly,

So you remember in high school, when I asked if you would go on a date with me?

You paraphrased the Old Testament when you answered: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day that I would go out with you!”

Just to let you know, I’ve booked a table for two on Tuesday night.

Julian

There’s a germ of an idea there, but it isn’t funny enough.

Unfortunately, the eclipse is tomorrow, and I don’t have time to mull it over more.

Do I need to drop the religious angle? Drop the loser-in-love angle? Add a pop culture reference? Link it to the man-in-the-moon? Is the rest of the internet making the same joke? I dare not look; it’ll be depressing.

What would you have done?