My husband and I are both huge nerds, obsessed with anything to do with science and video games. He's currently playing Skyrim, a fantasy game with beautifully rendered dragons. I happily note that the dragons actually look plausible. A pet peeve of mine is "unrealistic-looking" fantasy creatures.

This leads to a long discussion/argument about how to build a truly plausible dragon via evolution. I, a marine biologist, have referenced everything from iguana tails to egret necks to various species of bats' wings and even proto-birds like archaeopteryx, over the last hour to cobble this thing together, but my husband, the physicist, is still unsatisfied.

Husband: "That's all well and good, but you've only given me possibilities, and things that could maybe fly, given the right size-scale and circumstances."

Me: "Sweetheart, I would be happy to genetically engineer a functioning dragon in our kitchen for you, but I think l'd end up doing something illegal in the process."

Husband: "We'd probably get evicted."

- Sheldon Cooper Dating Amy Farrah-Fowler, Part 4 on Not Always Right