Tonight I met some grad students from Spain, and we exchanged American-English and Spanish-Spanish jokes. One joke, translated:
Q: Why do women park cars badly?
A: Because all their lives they've been told this [hand gesture indicating a quite small amount] is twenty centimeters.
FWIW: the interrupting-cow knock-knock joke was a big hit.
exactly,
the first hundred yrs
your cousin is a poet
You sound homesick, read. Where are you from?
"Nah, only the first hundred years of this are difficult." So beautiful.
One Hundred Years of Slowitude?
Lyrical.
Were you speaking English at the time? Maybe he meant "first hundred days."
Orientals like Ogged and his cousin have no sense of time. Also, they place no value on human life. Also, they're fatalists who believe that everything is written. You must have skipped the part of the syllabus where Edward Said explained the Oriental Mind.
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why, Microsoft Corp.
of course
or Apple Inc. if you prefer
no sense of time. Also, they place no value on human life. Also, they're fatalists who believe that everything is written.
I thought that was Lutherans.
No, we have a sense of time and are prompt to a fault.
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if you're a buddhist you'd know that even the lowest worm's life is precious
reincarnations etc
Yeah, just not human life. Lowly worms, sure.
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human life is as precious as any living creature's
not in degrading, rather highly elevating sense
I thought that was Lutherans.
Calvinists, you pagan. I once met a calvinist skydiver. I asked him, "So where's the excitement, if you're so damn elect?" He said it was mainly in the floating, but I didn't and don't believe him.
15: Nah.
16: I went skydiving and I don't remember any excitement after the first 2 or 3 seconds. Mostly it was just peaceful and quiet.
i'm always surprised when i compare how lutherans &c are one of the better denominations, while luther & calvin were both such fuckstains.
also, being sort of incomprehensible and eccentric make me think of hte smartest-hom-in-the-room, not dumbest
There's a particular dopey sense of humor I associate with foreign grad students with weak English -- laughing delightedly at their own kind of pathetic little jokes. When I was in Samoa, I got to the point where I could understand and tell fairly simple jokes, and was terribly pleased with myself, and then realized that I was that guy.
Lowly worms
Did you read Richard Scarry to your son, JE?