Saturday, May 31, 2008
What awkward sounds like.
One of my coworkers is deaf, but he’s also the biggest fanboy geek you’ll ever meet. From time to time, he IM’s me news and clips for upcoming comic movies. Last week, when the new international trailer for the Hulk movie came out, he was the first to send me the link. I gave it a view and told him what I thought.
Me: that’s pretty neat
Me: they even have a clip of the music from the 70’s show at the end!
Him: yeah...i didn’t exactly notice that
I hate when my forgetfulness makes me look an even bigger asshole than usual.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Opposites detract.
I was walking back from lunch with Adrian, one of my coworkers, when we passed an ad for Virgin Atlantic along the sidewalk. Across the top in bold white letters over a background of red and purple, it read, “Leave disgruntled. Arrive gruntled.”
“That doesn’t sound right,” Adrian remarked. “I don’t think ‘gruntled’ really sounds that much better than ‘disgruntled’.”
“Yeah, sometimes trying to opposite-ify a word just doesn’t work,” I replied. “It might as well have read, ‘Leave pissed-off. Arrive pissed-on.’”
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