I'm not generally lacking intelligence, and I regularly do Cryptic Crosswords and Lateral Thinking quizzes etc. But my husband still cringes at the time I joined a conversation re: Libya, and talked about my brother's term of duty there. A petrified forest was mentioned. "But I think it pretty dead around there" says I. Someone asks 'is she for real'. Husband, chokes, turns away, and pretends to be married to someone else!

Angelwings.

If the grass is greener on the other side, its sure the water bill is higher !