Unplanned humor is usually the best. I was out with some friends last night watching the Perseid meteor shower, after reading a lot of #Meteorwatch Tweets during the day. One particularly keen astronomer (whom I follow) goes by the Twitter name "Zarquil".
Not everyone knows their way around the sky, and I had been pointing out some key spots to my friends: Perseus, the Great Dark Rift, star clusters in Sagittarius, and the center of the the galaxy. Just around midnight, we saw a couple of really bright fireballs, and I made the comment "I must tell my friend Zarquil about this". There was a moment of silence, while we all realized how odd that sounded. And then a bit of laughter when I explained it,
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