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okay I just have to talk about this because it's one of those things that people do that makes no sence to me.
I was at my grandpa's house a yesterday helping him with his car (new exhaust pipes = loads of work crawling under the car) we had to drive down to Autosource and buy the pipes. I was driving. Now, i've heard that Canada has a bit of a reputation of being a very cold place and i just want to say that that is so not true....okay so we're not like florida or Egypt but still, there are some nice places here. Calgary just isn't one of them. Last week it was rather cold, like almost zero and on monday of last week it snowed. But when i drove grandpa for the pipes the weather was really really nice (25C that's awesome for around here this time of year) and i said, "wow what georgeous weather today." inocent little comment.
he said, "Don't use that word." sternly.
I "which word? why not?"
"Georgeous, real men don't use that word."
"Why not?"
"It sounds fruity."
"so?"
"So, if you use that word in public people will laught at you."
"I have used that word many times in public and recieved not even a glance."
"Yeah well they were probably too polite to correct you."
"So what your saying is, real men don't use the word georgeous?"
"Right."
"And real men are mocho and basicly your all round Paul Bunion type of guy."
"I suppose."
"So why do i want to be a 'real' man?"
"Because then people won't laugh at you."
so here i am driving and trying to explain to grandpa the logical falisy that exists where a 'real' man who is all mocho etc yet is afraid of something as tiny as a word. and at the same trying to explain that if that's what constitues being a 'real' man i want no part of it.
"But people don't laugh at me."
"Not yet."
"Grandpa, if someone laughes at me for using the word georgous then he'll probably be laughing alone and even if he's not i'd treat him no different than any other jerk in my life."
"Well that would be okay if most people weren't like that. Just trust me on this one, i've been around a long time and i've seen it all."
I don't beleive my grandpa for a moment. But i just wish i could find some way to help him drop some of his very old fashioned ways of seeing the world.
well anyway, i just don't understand this concept that real men are actualy afraid to use certain words in public because they think they'll be laughed at. I mean, if your a real man then being laughed at shouldn't be an issue right?
ah well, i guess i'm rambling about this but i find it just strange. I love my grandpa a lot but this is one of those times when we just don't agree.
oh and by the by, Webster's dictionary defines georgious as being, "Splendidly or showily brilliant or magnificent." which i think is exactly what yesterday afternoon was. Oh and i also found out that Elegant is aparently also one of these words, (my favorite science show, "the elegant universe" yeah i'm a physics geek, whatever.) so i think i shall find a way to work elegant and georgeous into at least a half dozen conversations i have with completely random people at school tomorow, just because.
until next time, Godspeed,
Pyro.
Do what you love, changing the world is incidental.
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afraid of words
By: Pyro on Mon, 27 September 2004 04:09 |
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Re: afraid of words
By: joesdog on Mon, 27 September 2004 07:59 |
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Re: afraid of words
By: blue on Mon, 27 September 2004 08:16 |
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Re: afraid of words
By: joesdog on Mon, 27 September 2004 16:36 |
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Re: afraid of words
By: blue on Mon, 27 September 2004 20:01 |
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Re: afraid of words
By: joesdog on Tue, 28 September 2004 08:12 |
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I can't beleive i spelled that wrong
By: Pyro on Mon, 27 September 2004 21:49 |
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no worries
By: blue on Mon, 27 September 2004 23:14 |
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Re: no worries
By: Pyro on Tue, 28 September 2004 05:22 |
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I love irony
By: timmy on Tue, 28 September 2004 11:06 |
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Re: I love irony
By: Pyro on Tue, 28 September 2004 21:09 |
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by the way
By: Pyro on Tue, 28 September 2004 22:08 |
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Re: by the way
By: joesdog on Wed, 29 September 2004 08:31 |
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Re: by the way
By: dartagnon on Wed, 29 September 2004 23:16 |
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Re: I love irony
By: blue on Wed, 29 September 2004 00:34 |
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this is a lichi nut...be your own judge.
By: Pyro on Wed, 29 September 2004 21:42 |
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Re: this is a lichi nut...be your own judge.
By: blue on Thu, 30 September 2004 02:00 |
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