In Other Words

Response to a response

Wow, I got two comments.  Actually three, if I read the comment in the chatterbox as well (which I will as it wouldn’t do to ignore my second most faithful reader to date).  So I’ve decided to be a real dweeb and use today’s blog entry to respond to those posts.  Why?  Because if I comment on another person’s blog I want them to respond to me, so I imagine that these people want me to respond to them (oh yeah, and I’m too lazy to actually think of something original to say).

First off to (now legally) Patricea Chow. 

Yes, I completely agree that I missed out humour in my short of the cuff list.  Interesting that I did, seeing as I would like to think that one of my more potent weapons in my limited arsenal of language.  Of course the operative word is ‘think’, which I don’t do very much anyway. 

The problem with humour is that you generally need to be an exceptionally good writer before you can use humour well.  Its necessary to cut away superfluous words, make the meaning clear and really condense down what you are saying until you get what you are trying to say.  Its all about delivery and the punch line.  Since I do not edit and I do not actually read back what I have written that makes humour hard to use. 

The only humour I can actually use to any extent is absurdity.  That’s because absurdity is easy to use.  (its really easy to compare two things that can’t really be compared.  Like, for instance, quall eggs and pink floppy dildos) Unfortunately absurdity is a very mainland European thing (as I discovered recently when looking at the laugh lab) which might put my sense of humour slightly outside of the mainstream in Singapore.

As for Jeff Lim’s comment, thanks.  I don’t know what else to say than that, really.  I don’t think there really is a need to say more.  Sometimes we should just learn to take a complement for what it is and learn to shut up, rather then talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking.  You know what I mean, right?  Sometimes you just start wishing you hadn’t given them a compliment in the first place.  I hate it when people talk too much.  Actors, actors talk too much.  Get up there on the stage and talk away at you, as if you came to see them, right?  I mean, seriously.  I just came to see the cute blond chick with the big breasts.  (Only time you can ogle a woman for hours without getting slapped) Who goes to plays for the dialog?  If I wanted good dialog I would talk at a mirror.  Alright, never mind.

That reminds me one of those things that women do that I will never quite understand.  One woman says to another ‘nice scarf!’ and then the other says ‘thanks, its Armani’ and then the first woman has to again say something like ‘oh, its beautiful!’ which she already had, the first time, but then in other words.  Two points about that A) why does a piece of clothing become more beautiful when its from an expensive brand and B) what would happen if somebody said the ‘thanks, its Armani’ bit and then you just said ‘oh’ and walked away?

As for Loobz and bush.  I don’t really know what more to say.  Actually I know a lot more to say, but I don’t want to sit here all afternoon and type away on this blog.  All I will say is that it is frightening that a man who believes that bringing back Christ requires the Israelis rebuilding the temple of Solomon in Palestinian territory rules the states.  Its even more frightening that is current policies clearly point that he’s trying bring this about.  That is why state and religion should not mix.  Believe what ever you want, but don’t screw with international affairs by trying to push your beliefs on the rest of the world. 

Crazy fact for today:

They found traces of cocaine in thousand years old Egyptian mummies.  The strange thing about that is that cocaine used to only grow in the Americas during this time and Egypt is in Africa.    

posted by Symbol @ 28.7.04