Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Mean What You Say And Vise Versa
If you are interested in laughing today, you should read this website. Check out the main page, but then thumb through the past issues too. It's some of the funniest stuff I've read in a long while - satire at its best.
I just said you should thumb through the past issues. Do you ever notice how we do that alot - talk about things we're doing on a computer that you really can't do. You can't actually thumb through the past issues on that site, you have to browse through them or peruse them.
And you don't talk to someone via an Instant Messenger service. You write to them. And if the conversation gets a little heated, you didn't yell at them, because you are writing to them so you might have just written in capital letters to them.
You're not actually doing that with your tongue on my penis, you're just telling me you are.
Language. It's interesting how we change the definition of words all the time without even knowing or acknowledging that we're doing it. Words are constantly evolving. Soon we'll need words to replace fantastic, amazing, outstanding, historic, epic, and special because they are so overused that they're real meaning has faded to become a watered down version of it's old self. It's like a rum and coke that you let sit too long because you got into a drunken conversation about politics in a bar and wouldn't shut up so all your ice melted and now the drink sucks.
Two things you don't discuss over alcohol: Religion and Politics. Just leave them be until morning, folks. It's for the better.
Anyway, so with the superfluous usage of some words we are leaving ourselves inept to describe moments that really are fantastic or special.
And "moments" is another word we've altered. When Major League Baseball did its most memorable moments of all time a few years ago, half the things on the list were not moments at all, but instead events or games. Moments are just what they say they are - a very brief period of time. Scott Podsednik hitting the homer in the 9th in Game 2 was a great moment for White Sox fans.
If the NFL did its most memorable moments shit and placed Peyton Mannings record breaking season last year on their list, then they would be very, very wrong. That was an event, it was an entire season. It was not a single, specific moment.
And then this: How is baseball deciding for everyone what was most memorable? Shouldn't their list have been Greatest Accomplishments in MLB History? Wouldn't that name be better suited for the list they actually created? So the name of their list was misrepresentitive of two aspects of the item it was naming. Poorly done by them.
One of my most memorable MLB moments was when I sat in a waiting room and watched Chuck Knoblauch hit a home run in Fenway Park on August 10th, 1995, while my mom was in another room giving birth to my little brother Bryce just three hours after me and Brian's, my other brother, baseball team won a city championship. It didn't make MLB's list because it was pretty oridnary, nothing great, but it was memorable to me.
Moments are brief. Unbelievable things are rare. And you're not yelling at the person on AIM, you're just writing sternly.
Until The Next.
I just said you should thumb through the past issues. Do you ever notice how we do that alot - talk about things we're doing on a computer that you really can't do. You can't actually thumb through the past issues on that site, you have to browse through them or peruse them.
And you don't talk to someone via an Instant Messenger service. You write to them. And if the conversation gets a little heated, you didn't yell at them, because you are writing to them so you might have just written in capital letters to them.
You're not actually doing that with your tongue on my penis, you're just telling me you are.
Language. It's interesting how we change the definition of words all the time without even knowing or acknowledging that we're doing it. Words are constantly evolving. Soon we'll need words to replace fantastic, amazing, outstanding, historic, epic, and special because they are so overused that they're real meaning has faded to become a watered down version of it's old self. It's like a rum and coke that you let sit too long because you got into a drunken conversation about politics in a bar and wouldn't shut up so all your ice melted and now the drink sucks.
Two things you don't discuss over alcohol: Religion and Politics. Just leave them be until morning, folks. It's for the better.
Anyway, so with the superfluous usage of some words we are leaving ourselves inept to describe moments that really are fantastic or special.
And "moments" is another word we've altered. When Major League Baseball did its most memorable moments of all time a few years ago, half the things on the list were not moments at all, but instead events or games. Moments are just what they say they are - a very brief period of time. Scott Podsednik hitting the homer in the 9th in Game 2 was a great moment for White Sox fans.
If the NFL did its most memorable moments shit and placed Peyton Mannings record breaking season last year on their list, then they would be very, very wrong. That was an event, it was an entire season. It was not a single, specific moment.
And then this: How is baseball deciding for everyone what was most memorable? Shouldn't their list have been Greatest Accomplishments in MLB History? Wouldn't that name be better suited for the list they actually created? So the name of their list was misrepresentitive of two aspects of the item it was naming. Poorly done by them.
One of my most memorable MLB moments was when I sat in a waiting room and watched Chuck Knoblauch hit a home run in Fenway Park on August 10th, 1995, while my mom was in another room giving birth to my little brother Bryce just three hours after me and Brian's, my other brother, baseball team won a city championship. It didn't make MLB's list because it was pretty oridnary, nothing great, but it was memorable to me.
Moments are brief. Unbelievable things are rare. And you're not yelling at the person on AIM, you're just writing sternly.
Until The Next.
