Incessant Chatterings of Yours Truly

Watching Diem pick tomatoes off his omlette, just to put salsa back on it:
Abel: you're so goofy.
Diem: Why? There's a difference. These tomatoes are alive and kicking, these ones are dead.
Abel: *laughs* what? Is that a technical term?
Diem: no, but there's a difference!
Abel: uh huh...
Diem: yeah, like ketchup. That stuff is /dead/. Its /not/ comin' back.
Abel: ...*laughs*