Elvis Edison
Katya took her English progress test today. As an ENL (English as a New Language) student, she gets some assistance from the school, and every year they give an assessment test. We were talking about the reading comprehension portion.
| Katya: | the last part was hard. It was about Nicola Tesla and electricity…and some other guy… |
| Pen: | Edison? |
| Katya: | Yes! Elvis Edison. Elvis something Edison. |
| Pen: | (laughing) Thomas Alva Edison? |
| Katya: | No. Elvis something. |
| Liza: | (laughing) Pen, there’s no way you’re going to win this. |
| Pen: | Kat, if you look it up on google, you’ll see it’s Thomas Alva Edison. He was the other guy experimenting with electricity around the same time Tesla was. They were rivals, actually. |
| Katya: | No! it wasn’t him. This other guy invented a better toilet for the trains. And…other stuff too. He was Louis something. Louis and…Louis Cook. |
| Liza: | (now howling) Lewis and Clark? |
| Katya: | NO! I know who Lewis and Clark were! This was about Louis Cook! |
| Pen: | Not one minute ago, you were saying it was Elvis Edison. Which, to be honest, is an absolute kick-ass band name. |
| Katya: | I can’t wait til I’m eighteen and I can move out and get a dog. |
