Just had an odd conversation with the family.  We determined that while falling is funny, plummeting is funnier.  Plummeting denotes a certain speed and distance.  You cannot, for instance, plummet off a step.  Just doesn’t happen.  “Hey Bill, what happened to your head?” “Oh, I plummeted off a step!” Nope.  Doesn’t work.  You also can’t break your arm or bruise your hip or scratch your cornea in a plummet.  You must plummet “to your death”.  That’s the rule.  “Hey Bob, how’d you break your arm?” “In a plummet!” See?  It just doesn’t work.  “So Sue, how did your great-aunt die?” “She plummeted off a cliff!” Now that works!

Yeah, we have these kinds of conversations a lot.  Scary, huh?