| Alice: | There are elephants that fly. |
| Betty: | Hahaha. Good one. |
| Alice: | I'm serious. There are elephants that fly. |
| Betty: | Whaaat? Elephants can't fly. |
| Alice: | Ah, but they do. |
| Betty: | This is stupid. Just look at the laws of physics. Elephants are too heavy. They would need wings of utterly enormous size and to achieve quite a high takeoff speed to get airborne. And elephants don't have wings. |
| Alice: | They don't need wings. They flap their ears. And only certain elephants can fly. I've seen them. |
| Betty: | Waaaiit. You're talking about Dumbo. The Walt Disney cartoon. |
| Alice: | Yes. [blissful look] It is our holy story. |
| Betty: | Oh for crying out loud! It is just a story, a fiction, a parable. |
| Alice: | Please keep a civil tongue in your head! If you insult our holy book again I shall be forced to take action against you. |
| Betty: | This is insane! You can't "take action" for any nutty belief. |
| Alice: | I'm entitled to my beliefs, and in fact our organisation is working to ensure that the truth about flying elephants is taught in school alongside so-called standard biology. |
| Betty: | I never heard anything more ridiculous in my life. It isn't science! |
| Alice: | Oh yes it is. |
| Betty: | OK. Show me your "scientific proof". |
| Alice: | Here. [Hands Betty a solemn, black, leather-bound book with gold lettering on its cover: "The science of Flying Elephantism"] |
| Betty: | [takes it with a skeptical look] Wait a minute. This is Just the original Dumbo story in a fancy cover. |
| Alice: | Exactly! [pleased look] It has been handed down without a word changed. |
| Betty: | Ummm... And how does that affect the "truthfulness" of the story. |
| Alice: | I'm entitled to my beliefs. |
| Betty: | You can believe the sun goes around the Earth for all I care, but you are not entitled to push your inane ideas on others. |
| Alice: | People deserve to know the truth, to be enlightened. |
| Betty: | What if we don't want this stupid stuff. |
| Alice: | [stiffly] We have ways of ensuring we get even time. |
| Betty: | Oh boy! Fun. |