Setting: Our kitchen, 11:20 PM on a weeknight.  Thomai is sitting at the kitchen table balancing the checkbook.  Mike is passing through with their dog, Domino.  He lets Domino out in the back yard and then returns to the kitchen to talk to Thomai.

Mike: Hey, did we ever have a conversation in which we said what we think Domino would sound like if she could talk?

Thomai: I think so.

Mike: And what did you say she would sound like?

Thomai: Um...I don’t remember.  Hey, I have to talk to you about something important...

Mike: Now what the hell could possibly be more important than this?

Curtain.