Overheard and overseen

[resonant]

My haircutter: "I'd never have started my own business if I'd had ADHD meds. I'd have thought about it first."



"If you want to get yourself known, you've got to wear a bird."

"I'm cheating on my book with another book."

One of those magnetic ribbons stuck to a car, which said "I [heart] bingo."

At coffee shop: "That's OK. We sell consciousness."

One kid to another: "You are my friend. That's why you're gettin' whupped."

The spouse is tickling the kidlet, who is screaming with laughter, and over their high-pitched squeals I hear him shouting: "Are you fearful? You're in the subjunctive mood! Are you hopeful? You're in the subjunctive mood!" (Later they tell me that the name of this game is Explanation Tickling.)

In front of me is a truck with two bumper stickers. One says simply BACK OFF. The other says THE CLOSER YOU GET, THE SLOWER I'LL DRIVE. I'm lucky to be behind him and not in front of him; he's relentlessly tailgating the next car.

kidlet: "My hen and my pigeon are still in my pencil box, along with a number of other oddities ... a number of innities and outities ..."

best LJ friends group: ashes everywhere

Two religious guys come to my father-in-law's door to offer him a card that tells him how to achieve salvation. He says, "I've already got one of those; an old woman gave it to me." The guys say, "That's the wrong card!"

"No, thanks. I don't think I want to be married in a doughnut shop."

Great search strings used to find my website:
- "harem women." Got them to Term of Service. I wonder what they made of it.
- "thick thighs." This took someone straight to Advantage. I have no idea.

Best search ever for finding my website: "poems for kindergarten about nutrition." Srsly.

edited 2020 to retroactively correct the kidlet's gender pronouns

Comments

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

At coffee shop: "That's OK. We sell consciousness."

*laughs* Oh, that's brilliant, and I don't even *drink* coffee. These, one and all, are awesome. Thank you.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I usually avoid that coffee shop because it's too quotable; I spend so much time eavesdropping that I get nothing done!

[vickita.livejournal.com]

poems for kindergarten about nutrition.

::SNORT::

Hee.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I would love to know what that was all about. Or, for that matter, why someone would think it was possible to teach nutrition via poetry.

[temaris.livejournal.com]

What slays me about the web stats stuff, is not that a search picked it up, but that someone *clicked* *through*. They looked at the search result, and were either intigued enough to dive off into some slash, or genuinely thought it might match, or ... I would love to know what they were thinking -- and what they thought afterwards *g*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I know it! "I was doing my curriculum for summer school, but then I found this intriguing site where the men from the television were doing the most unexpected things ..."

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

kidlet: "My hen and my pigeon are still in my pencil box, along with a number of other oddities ... a number of innities and outities ..."

LOLOL! That's wonderful!

Here, I'm giving kidlet a cupcake.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

She'll be most appreciative! Like most kids, she'd eat her weight in sugar if she could.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Mine would actually prefer a saltlick. Her favorite goody from last year's Halloween haul? The mini bag of Cheetos.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

Two of my favorite fics ever! I started recording Term of servie the other day. *relishes*

Mmm, Rodney's thighs.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool!

[minnow1212.livejournal.com]

Explanation tickling! that made my day.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

One day she'll leave home to live among normal people, and only then will she realize how very strange her parents are.

[rickey-a.livejournal.com]

LOL
thank you for these
people are funny we should definitely take advantage

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Of course the rest of the world was put here for my entertainment!

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

"Explanation Tickling" is almost certainly going to be part of my child-raising regime, when that day comes.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Well, she may not learn anything, but at least she gets what she calls her "daily tickle."

On a board where I used to hang out, there was a woman whose preschooler had something called sensory integration disorder (which apparently sometimes goes along with autism-type disorders) -- and one of the treatments the doctor recommended was ... tickling him! So apparently it's actually good for at least some kids' brains.

[cat-latin.livejournal.com]

LOL! Here's some cake for your excellent listening skills.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Caaaaake!

[skuf.livejournal.com]

One of those magnetic ribbons stuck to a car, which said "I [heart] bingo."
Did you see the Canadian Actor Bingo fanvid (http://barkley.livejournal.com/466974.html?style=mine)? (Or maybe you haven't seen enough of the shows to appreciate it? You've said you don't actually watch much tv, right?) It has CKR, though, *loffs*.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm downloading it now!

[giglet.livejournal.com]

The spouse is tickling the kidlet, who is screaming with laughter, and over her high-pitched squeals I hear him shouting: "Are you fearful? You're in the subjunctive mood! Are you hopeful? You're in the subjunctive mood!" (Later she tells me that the name of this game is Explanation Tickling.)

Oh, that's brilliant!

/me plots when I can use this on t'son (who still doesn't recognize subjunctives).

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I didn't recognize it until I learned about it in Latin class. Most of the English grammar I know, I learned in Latin class, actually.

I had a college friend who used to like to say, "I wish there were a subjunctive in English," and see how long it would take people to laugh.

[somniesperus.livejournal.com]

"No, thanks. I don't think I want to be married in a doughnut shop."

I...I think I just might even know what this is about.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Really? Oh, tell me! Because I was totally baffled.

[runpunkrun]

My first thought was Voodoo donuts in Portland, where you can actually get married amongst the donuts, which are all totally insane flavors, like, well, they had NyQuill donuts until the FDA cracked down on them.

http://www.voodoodoughnut.com/

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Interesting! And, eyew, NyQuil.

[somniesperus.livejournal.com]

Well, a couple of months ago, on the Something Awful messageboards, a guy posted a long thread, complete with pictures, about this awful roommate he had. The story ended with the roommate getting married in a doughnut shop, and everybody else said, wow, how weird. The story itself would be unremarkable, except that the roommate's dad is apparently a fairly famous comic book artist, and somebody told him about the thread. Famous artist!dad posted in his blog about how terrible it was that somebody could be so jealous of his wonderful son, and threatened to sue. It's now all over the internet like acne, I understand.

Anyway, I don't run across too many mentions of people getting married in doughnut shops, so it's either that, or the biggest coincidence ever.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Hee! That's very odd. I have no idea what it was all about.

[ecaterin.livejournal.com]

The spouse & kidlet game is second only to the spouse drawing on Russian literature to brave the cold journey to the garbage can :D

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

We are a family rich in allusions. That totally makes up for never dusting, right?

[ecaterin.livejournal.com]

Oh totally! *eyes dusty desk*

[fierydspsition.livejournal.com]

On my way from Portsmouth, NH to Fredericksburg, VA, I saw a car that made me think of your "Overseen and Overheard" posts. I had just crossed into Maryland when I came up behind a smaller SUV with a Virginia license plate that read "4GUNZ". The license plate also had the ability to digitally scroll a short phrase underneath the license number. It read, "If you're Muslim... Holla!"

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Am I wrong, or do those add up to a threat?

[fierydspsition.livejournal.com]

At the time, I had been driving for about 11 hours straight with two more to go so I chose not to think to hard about it. Honestly, I'm not sure. I guess it depends on the intention of "Holla!" which I've mainly heard to mean where are my boys at kind of thing.

[barely-bean.livejournal.com]

Best search ever for finding my website: "poems for kindergarten about nutrition." Srsly.

Oh boy.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I have no theories about this at all. I mean, there's a fair amount of food in my stories, but ... no.

[nudaydreamer.livejournal.com]

"Innities and outities" is my new favorite phrase ever.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

It's entered our lexicon, too!

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

The spouse is tickling the kidlet, who is screaming with laughter, and over her high-pitched squeals I hear him shouting: "Are you fearful? You're in the subjunctive mood! Are you hopeful? You're in the subjunctive mood!" (Later she tells me that the name of this game is Explanation Tickling.)

I'm a little jealous of your daughter for getting this upbringing. I didn't even hear of the subjunctive until I was about 30.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I learned about it in high school Latin; I have a fairly good ear, so nobody ever taught me any formal grammar in English. (The tickling method wouldn't have worked with me, though; I have a horror of it.)

[celli]

*g*

[lorem_ipsum]

The spouse is tickling the kidlet, who is screaming with laughter, and over her high-pitched squeals I hear him shouting: "Are you fearful? You're in the subjunctive mood! Are you hopeful? You're in the subjunctive mood!" (Later she tells me that the name of this game is Explanation Tickling.)

Delurking to say-- oh my god, that is the best thing I've ever heard EVER.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Me too! Of course, who knows whether she retains anything other than the tickling ...

[adannu.livejournal.com]

Bweee! That coffee sticker needs to be a .sig or a sticker. Or a mug. I'd TOTALLY OWN that mug.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too!

[lost-erizo.livejournal.com]

Catching up on my friendslist and this cought my eye:

The spouse is tickling the kidlet, who is screaming with laughter, and over her high-pitched squeals I hear him shouting: "Are you fearful? You're in the subjunctive mood! Are you hopeful? You're in the subjunctive mood!" (Later she tells me that the name of this game is Explanation Tickling.)

Not only is this the best pedagogical tool ever (as well as being unbearably cute), it reminded me of a story my mom told me. When she was in first grade, the Nun who was teaching the class used to threaten the children by telling them that if they didn't do X she'd "put you in the indicative mood!"

:-)

(apparently they hadn't started formal grammar classes yet...)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

if they didn't do X she'd "put you in the indicative mood!"

I love it! It reminds me of a friend whose mother used to stay, "Stop it or I'll threaten!"