tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post4431135266726456384..comments2024-01-08T14:21:37.465-08:00Comments on Infinite Art Tournament: I Am Ridiculous: a vignetteMichael5000http://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-44576892319278258122008-04-25T14:57:00.000-07:002008-04-25T14:57:00.000-07:00I see you too have had some fun with caulk.I see you too have had some <A HREF="http://storyofjonah.blogspot.com/2008/04/not-again.html" REL="nofollow">fun with caulk</A>.Terezahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01537776511607080977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-4464390318274069472008-03-17T20:43:00.000-07:002008-03-17T20:43:00.000-07:00@dan: Wow, that is a great parallel story. I'm gl...<B>@dan: Wow, that is a great parallel story. I'm glad this kind of thing doesn't just happen to me.</B>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02012469455705079647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-65699299122661196892008-03-17T12:08:00.000-07:002008-03-17T12:08:00.000-07:00ooh, that's tough. Reminds me of the time I was t...ooh, that's tough. Reminds me of the time I was talking to some (white) guy in a bar and he asked me if it was wrong to be attracted to a girl with a black guy. After several minutes of convoluted conversation in which I tried to rationalize his feelings by coming up with a crackpot theory in which he was experiencing some sort of cultural stereotype big penis envy, to his total confusion, I turned around to see a girl with a black eye.<BR/><BR/>ah race. such fun.Dan Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13981886295607717368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-81008037463593740842008-03-12T22:53:00.000-07:002008-03-12T22:53:00.000-07:00Dude -- that was you? Small world. Just as well...Dude -- that was you? Small world. Just as well, we were out of the black, anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-88139977141546047632008-03-12T22:10:00.000-07:002008-03-12T22:10:00.000-07:00oh, this is -totally- something i would do! thank ...oh, this is -totally- something i would do! thank god i didn't.<BR/><BR/>mrs.5000: yes, i suspect it is funnier & more excruciating in print. :) so much the better for us!gl.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03216590789836132321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-52489535643116474412008-03-12T10:51:00.000-07:002008-03-12T10:51:00.000-07:00OK, that is funny. Pathetic, but funny.At least yo...OK, that is funny. Pathetic, but funny.<BR/><BR/>At least you didn't offend anyone. I have a slip of the tongue incident (similar to Rebel's above) in which by pure accident, a group of work colleagues now believe me to be a total racist.<BR/><BR/>(Which I am not, for the record.)The [Cherry] Ridehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15796913131707426142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-67571332975123375342008-03-12T10:42:00.000-07:002008-03-12T10:42:00.000-07:00I've heard this anecdote before, but found it even...I've heard this anecdote before, but found it even funnier and more excruciating in print. <BR/><BR/>"Caulk" is one of the few words where I've consciously tried to preserve my New Jersey accent, which makes that fussy east-coast distinction between what are dead-on homophones in the rest of the country. ("Maureen" and "marine," and "Dawn" and "Don" were two pairs I caught quite a lot of shit for when I moved there from the Midwest in the eighth grade.)<BR/><BR/>"Sealant," of course, is even better when speaking to men in the trades.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-41523093655068190412008-03-12T09:29:00.000-07:002008-03-12T09:29:00.000-07:00Ouch. Yes, "tragelarious"Ouch. Yes, "tragelarious"Bridgethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17274259856710507938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-3598678122821587192008-03-12T09:19:00.000-07:002008-03-12T09:19:00.000-07:00Oh that's not that bad at all.In a presentation in...Oh that's not that bad at all.<BR/><BR/>In a presentation in college I meant to say something like "Most people think that domestic violence only happens in families that are poor or among minorities; but the fact is that domestic violence occurs across racial or income lines" What I *actually* said was more like "We all hope that domestic violence only happens to poor minorities, but really it could happen to anyone."<BR/><BR/>D'oh!<BR/><BR/>I very hastily and very clumsily attempted to correct myself.Rebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835352917180439099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-81004846500653545222008-03-12T00:21:00.000-07:002008-03-12T00:21:00.000-07:00I can completely sympathize with that. I don't thi...I can completely sympathize with that. I don't think I was born a shy person, but I became very shy after moving here, by myself, at 15, which I think everyone would pretty much understand. I'd also rehearse things in my head; and I'd cross the road to avoid talking to someone that I thought I recognized; when someone was 'kind' enough to ask me out for a date, I'd let him walk all over me. Then one morning I woke up and thought, well, this is no way to live a life. And I changed.fingerstothebonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09410312376236327398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-13093472156519116472008-03-11T23:27:00.000-07:002008-03-11T23:27:00.000-07:00That is tragelarious!That is tragelarious!Chancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226145896576592193noreply@blogger.com