Linguistic Diversity and Other Thoughts from the Den of Iniquity
Since my life has lately been completely and totally usurped and controlled by the Den of Iniquity (note my wife’s recent post about this extremely upsetting development), what would be more fitting than a few anecdotes from out of the Den?!
Lately I’ve been yelling a lot. It’s fun and relieves stress. “LINE ROLL!!!!” “Need a FLOOR!!!” “OVER!!!” And so on. It’s most fun though when me and my buddy Mark yell at each other. I’ll scream “WATER PUMP!!!!” And he’ll holler back “IT’S RIGHT HERE TOM!!!!!!” Yesterday we were yelling at each other and suddenly he laughed and said, you should have seen Beth’s face! She thought we were really mad at each other!
But today was John Denver Day for me and Mark. We sang “Leaving on a Jet Plane” (or two lines from it) over and over and over. Bill was almost beside himself.
And we did it in several parts, like they did in the movie “Armageddon.” I’d sing the melody and Mark would float the high descant, “Ah ah AH ah ah ah!” It was really something. You should’ve been there.
At breaktime I was kidding my buddy Juan about eating all his lunch so early in the day. Then he mentioned that he wanted to gain weight.
“Oh,” I said patting my substantial midsection, “like me?”
“No,” he replied without even thinking, “I mean in a good way!”
A few days ago Juan was working near me again. We were combining efforts on something and he mentioned a spacer he had cut for a particular task.
“Smart man,” I said.
“I may speak with an accent,” he replied, “but I don’t think with one!”
5 Responses
November 7th, 2005 at 11:43 am
“leaving on a jet plane, don’t know when I’ll be back again, hold me like you’ll never let me go.”
I would have paid money to see you guys sing that.
-Kaitlyn
November 7th, 2005 at 6:31 pm
You still can. I’ll round up Mark and we’ll drop by after work.
However, we never got around to the last phrase you quoted there. Somehow I think the money was in that phrase, was it not?!
November 7th, 2005 at 8:39 pm
I love that phrase (even though I don’t know the song), it just meets me. Well, most of it. Cause, I am leaving on a jet plan, I know when I’ll return again, and skip the last part for lack of interest on my part.
Yea for the world! Yea for travel! Yea for culture!
Oh Tom, the money you pull from the hat for your singing endeavors, please send my way. Think of it as charity. I need LOTS of charity right now……I just paid my ticket!
Ag
November 10th, 2005 at 7:05 am
Ag, where are you going?? I just got back LATE last night from 2 weeks in Europe. It was nice to be there but far better to be home. I REALLY missed my phone… I’d say my boyfriend missed it even more…. If it wasn’t for no phone, it would have been a better 2 weeks!
~Lauren
February 24th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
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