Unintentional spousal humor part II
Feb. 4th, 2009 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
51stcenturyfoxHim: "Why is it that people say 'batshit' for crazy and not 'guano'? They're the same thing." (Referring here to Wonkette.com posts.)
Me: "Plosives."
Him: "What? Explosives?"
Me: "No. Words with syllabic bite. You know, like 'slut'. Hammer syllables and hard stops are more effective when used in certain ways. Plus, if you're inwardly eight, like me, swearing gives you a frisson of glee. But a better question might be why people say 'batshit' and not 'catshit'."
Him: *pause* "I guess. Hey, do we have a special knife for cutting up eggplant?"
Me: "Nope."
Him: "Well, can you do it? Because the skin feels like skin and it''s like I'm doing an autopsy over here."
Me: "You're making dinner and you bring up bat crap, but the skin on an eggplant grosses you out?"
Him: "I know, right?"
Me: "Plosives."
Him: "What? Explosives?"
Me: "No. Words with syllabic bite. You know, like 'slut'. Hammer syllables and hard stops are more effective when used in certain ways. Plus, if you're inwardly eight, like me, swearing gives you a frisson of glee. But a better question might be why people say 'batshit' and not 'catshit'."
Him: *pause* "I guess. Hey, do we have a special knife for cutting up eggplant?"
Me: "Nope."
Him: "Well, can you do it? Because the skin feels like skin and it''s like I'm doing an autopsy over here."
Me: "You're making dinner and you bring up bat crap, but the skin on an eggplant grosses you out?"
Him: "I know, right?"
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Date: 2009-02-05 04:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-05 04:06 am (UTC)"What's the speed of sound?"
"What's confectioner's sugar? Don't all confectionery desserts contain sugar?"
"I want to go on a Nile cruise, except... what if pirates hijack the boat?"
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Date: 2009-02-05 04:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-05 04:20 am (UTC)He says he doesn't remember asking you that question. I'm not surprised. And he's claiming I'm the weird one. (When he said batshit he was not referring to anyone in particular, btw, but an online discussion elsewhere.)
It's like being married to Rain Man. Time for Wapner!
YES
Date: 2009-02-05 04:39 am (UTC)Re: YES
Date: 2009-02-05 03:00 pm (UTC)I have never been to one of those convention-style partythings.
NO
Date: 2009-02-06 12:57 am (UTC)Re: NO
Date: 2009-02-06 08:19 am (UTC)And I will not wait in line for two hours to touch Marsters' hand, so you're on your own with that worshipfulness.
(Though I would wait in line for a dirty shag up against the wall, I admit.)
Re: NO
Date: 2009-02-06 05:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-05 04:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-05 04:36 am (UTC)I should make him into an OC. He'd be an awesome character. Hee!
From the peanut gallery: "I can't be an OC. I'm an OG. Gangsta!"
And he actually just got up to throw gang signs at himself in the mantel mirror.
And now it's the Mary Katherine Gallagher impression. "Supastar!" I'm rollin'.
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Date: 2009-02-05 04:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-05 05:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-05 12:30 pm (UTC)batshit - crazy people have "bats in the belfry" are "batty" or "bats"? My guesses where batshit crazy may have come from.
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Date: 2009-02-05 02:10 pm (UTC)Plus, flying things with fur... and creepy teef? And sleeping upside down and the echolocation thing?
That's a cave full of crazy, right there.
(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-05 11:04 pm (UTC)"men are strange creatures"
We find the fairer sex a little mysterious at times, too;)
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Date: 2009-02-05 11:09 pm (UTC)Oh, ICON LOVE!!!!!!
(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-05 11:13 pm (UTC)"Mysterious is just a nice way of saying batshit"
You said it; not me!!
Hey got any suggestions for finding a Suzi icon?
:)
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Date: 2009-02-06 12:25 am (UTC)I'm not very good at lettering, though.