Another random one here. I have been saving for a while and can’t wait anymore. I had a memory the other day of a guy who came to saint rose early in the semester to perform one night. I forget what he was booked as. Something like “he sings, he dances, he does comedy!” And he really did too. He did some spoofs on songs that were popular at the time. He told us that every song has a country song in it if you play it right. Then he gave some hilarious examples on his guitar. He also made fun of the extended version of the Friends show theme. He claimed that the whole problem with the song was when they added the second verse. In the first verse it says “So no one told you life was gonna be this way” but then the second verse says “your mother told you there’d be days like these”. Then also in the second verse they sing “you burned your breakfast, so far things are going great”. This guy tells us “Hey how many of us make breakfast that can actually be burnt?” He was pretty funny. I thought he was better than any other comedian we had in four years. He also juggled and asked us to give him three things to juggle and he would juggle them at least three rotations. I can’t remember the other two items but Nick, my boyfriend of the time, gave him one of those expanding balls you can buy at discovery store. They get bigger and smalled depending on how you hold them. When they’re small they look like a star and when they’re big they look like a skeleton of a sphere. So he took it and looked at it and looked at it. We all laughed at the faces he made. He was a good sport and was up there trying for 6 or 7 minutes. He would try and not get it then we would laugh. At one point he said, “Oh shut up Nick!” because he was the one who handed him this impossible object. It was mostly exaggerated I imagine. Anyway he finally did get it juggled for at least 5 rotations and we all cheered. That was a fun time.
Another thing I want to tell you about is setarepo. It needs to be pronounced -sitar eepo- This is kind of like morphtal worftal. I guess my sister (same one) was reading a sign on the window from the wrong side. It said “operates” but it read like “setarepo”. So then she told my other sister, “Setarepo!” who responded, “what?” So they told me about this and I thought it sounded like a word you yell jumping out of an airplane. You can shout, “Geronimo!” or “Yahoo!” or “Setarepo!” We also decided to call it setarepo when a person speaks backwards. So then ‘gninrom doog’ for good morning is the use of setarepo.
Next subject!
On the way to Webster today we got behind an older person driver. AND they were going slow. So Dan was annoyed so he was pretending to be an old geezer talking about young whipper snappers. Instead he said “young-snappin silly-slickers” That’s it for the story really. It was just funny as all get out.
It’s been ridiculous rainy lately. I guess it’s because of all the tropical storms. I think it had been affecting my sinuses and equilibrium. They are all the way past the alphabet on naming tropical storms. They started over at alpha (Greek alphabet) and now they are at beta. How many more are coming? We shall see.
Quick note:
The nicknaming of pop stars who are chicks that wear too little clothing and dance all slinky- pop tarts! HA! That is a really good one. Someone at my Tuesday night Irish dance class told me that one. She didn’t coin the phrase and neither did I, but if you did and you’re reading this- WAY FUNNY Thank you.