Let's get right to it. Ladies and gentlemen (can I just say that I can't think of the word "gentlemen" without internally saying it like Major Charles Emerson Winchester?) I give you:
Things That Confuse Me
1. People who ask me for "bibliographies" at the reference desk when they mean to say "biographies."
2. Why it's funny when dudes in the movies get hit in the nuts.
3. How the Search for the Next Pussycat Doll show could eliminate a contestant because she "dances like a stripper."
4. The lead singer from Sugar Ray now being a Ryan Seacrest type tv host.
5. When people who aren't friends with celebrities call them, not in jest, by their familiar names, ie "Bobby Deniro" or "Marty Scorcese."
6. People who can't pronounce my name after being told multiple times.
7. People who don't laugh, but just say "that's funny" instead.
8. Why the entry for "Libra" (my sign) in wikipedia says "Libra is said to rule the excretory functions via the kidneys, skin, lumbar region, buttocks, adrenals and vasomotor system."
9. Jodhpurs.
10. The episode of Star Trek where Data's head explodes off in 19th century earth and he then finds it in the future. I have gone so far as to ask someone who is quite well-versed in quantum physics to explain this to me, and I still can't get it.
11. Larry the Cable Guy. Totally confusing.
12. When people put the word "actually" at the end of a sentence unnecessarily, as if you have argued with what they've said, when you haven't said a word. "This food is quite good, actually."
Can anyone explain any of these to me? Virtual kisses to anyone who will try.
Kiss the rings, I'm out.
Librarian Girl
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Dazed and Confused
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9 comments:
I can explain none of the others but give you one reason for jodhpurs. If you ride with trousers with seams down the inside leg you get v uncomfortable and end up with lovely bruising. However if it's people wearing jodhpurs when they don't ride I'm as flummoxed as you.
I'm just a lurker, but I HAD to comment. I can't clear up a single confusing thing for you, but I CAN add my two cents about the whole saying-"that's funny"-without-actually-laughing thing. I had a boyfriend who did that, and it Drove. Me. Crazy. I wanted to yell at him, "Dude! If it's funny, laugh. If not, just don't say anything and I'll take the hint." Sheesh.
I can't read or type the word actually without hearing it with a Brit accent.
That's all I got. NO WAIT! Larry the Cable Guy? Fart humor.
I'm guilty of overusing "actually." Horribly guilty. And "even," as though I am constantly arguing with some invisible naysayer or doubting Thomas.
I think the naysayer or doubting Thomas is me. I think I'm basically constantly surprising myself. It really messes up my writing, though, as does overuse of the word "really."
Also, I can give you one person's take on the celebrity nickname thing. I can only speak for myself, mind you.
Eighteen thousand years ago, I worked for awhile for some of Charlton "Chuck" Heston's attorneys in L.A. I still call him "Chuck Heston," even though I just picked it up from the lawyers and never met the man myself. I am being sarcastic when I do this. In truth, Chuck and I can never be friends because he is a gun-toting-and-promoting wingnut who would probably vomit on his own shoes if he had to listen to me talk for five minutes -- which, to be fair, is kind of how I feel whenever I hear him talk, off-script that is. His acting just makes me laugh.
I hope that clarifies something for you.
What moron can't pronounce "Librarian Girl"? Seems pretty easy to me. ;-)
I've found that there is an equal overuse of the word "actually" at the beginning of a phrase or statement. During my day I deal with many phone calls and run into this regularly. Usual greetings are followed with "Actually I was calling about.." even though nothing at all had been discussed yet.
These twelve points made me laugh a lot and some´re absolutely right. I loved and more at the point that some people don´t know the celebrities, lol!
hi nice blog and everything´s so true!
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