Eric Burden – Oh Lord
please don’t let me be misunderstood
Jim Croce - The words just
came out wrong
Homer Simpson – Doh!
We tend to hold people’s
feet to the fire when they speak, especially if we don’t agree with them. The message becomes unimportant and the focus
goes on the perceived blunder. Another
way of putting it,
I’m not sure why we
nitpick, especially since we really hate it being done to us. We hold everyone
to a higher standard and yet we hate Alex Trebek for being such a pompous
ass. Really Alex, really? Put screw yourself in the form of a question.
What is, What should the host of this
game show do to himself? But I
digress.
Sometimes we misspeak,
other times we use examples that sort of illustrate the point but are not
perfect fits, and then there are times it’s complete verbal carnage. God help us then.
The verbal land mine, you
might as well just set fire to puppies and barbeque up a few lost children on
the way to Sunday school, Hebrew school . . . Mosque? So hard
to be politically correct these days, when being very un-politically correct.
But if you are going to BBQ up children you don’t want to leave anyone out;
that would be playing favorites. I
started with just Sunday school, but then I realized maybe I would offend others. Think about it, I was trying to come up with
something horrible and I used Sunday school; but wouldn’t it also be horrible
to do the same thing to children of other faiths? Of course it would be, so I cooked up others
as well. Now I know you cat lovers out
there are going to take offense that I didn’t say setting cats ablaze was
horrible, well to you I say, take a hint!
LOL
Kidding, I Kid. Ha Ha.
But then this happens….
What did you just say?
You know what I mean
Umm, no you said, You want
to barbeque children, you sick bastard.
That’s not what I said, I
sai…
I know what you said, how
could you even think that, let alone say that?
You are one demented, bla bla bla, so and so, curse, curse , curse , bla
bla bla, unholy son of a bitch. And further more …..
This is when you smack
yourself in the head and realize that not only has society and the education
system failed, but (un)common sense is not only dead, but long forgotten. Rest in Peace common sense, you will be missed.
And yet, we continue on.
It’s election time. Hey
look at me, bringing politics to the table after using household pets, religion
and children to demonstrate how things can get misinterpreted. This could get fun. What am I missing? Hmmm,
sport’s teams, abortion and the existence of ghosts. That should do it.
WHAT?????
Did you just put the
existence of ghosts in the same category as abortion?
You know what I mean ….
How on Earth could you
even …. Bla bla bla, curse curse curse, you miserable son of a bitch. And Further more . . . .
You get the point.
I’m just listing Hot
Topics that get people all riled up, there’s more, the list goes on, but I
think I got the point across, maybe. Where was I?
Oh right politics. Tiss the season and as any good diplomat will
say, never talk politics and religion and yet, and yet …
Look around, everyone is
talking politics. Who knew Facebook would be ground zero for political flag
waving and more apparently mudslinging.
Good stuff! A virtual place where
people can catch up after 20 something years and then piss each other off.
Outstanding! Why do people get so impassioned, it’s ok to have a different
opinion, really it is, you can still be friends, viva la difference’. That’s what makes life so interesting on this
big wet planet we call home. I really
don’t care much for politics, they all piss me off, but I don’t want to get off
topic. Remember the topic? To be honest
I’m having a hard time remembering the topic, what was it?
I’m pretty sure when you
start talking about a topic that someone already has a very strong opinion
about that, the listener stops really
listening and waits for the first moment to call bullshit on you. But in tuning out they hear only a few major
things you say and miss the point.
Something like bla bla bla, bla bla, bla, bla Trebek bla
bla puppies bla barbeque children bla bla ghosts bla bla bla.
WHAT!!!! WHAT THE
FUDGE!!!!!
But they’re not thinking,’
What the Fudge’, what they are thinking is, ‘What the Fuck!’
No one thinks Fudge, they
may say Fudge, but they are thinking Fuck.
No misunderstanding there, is there?
No feet to the fire on
that one, no Alex Trebek, no YouTube clip, not even a blurb on Twitter. People know a fuck when they see one.
So again I’m not sure if I
really have a point here to make today, because if I try to sum it up in a sound
bite, it might be misunderstood or just come out like this:
Try not to be a
hypocritical game show ghost while barbequing dogs at a Giants game, because
although people may not always say the right thing, they may have a message
worth hearing.
