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some random Friday thoughts about things that are just not quite right:
- The methodology used to identify our best and brightest for the purpose of bestowing Australia's highest honour.
- The reasons given by jurors in explaining their verdict on the Jackson trial:
* Thanks to Jo from Freeway 9, who pointed out that this seemed like kind of an odd reason to acquit.
** Generally speaking, ethnic seems to be used in a vaguely pejorative way (think: ethnic tensions). But the adjectival form tends to be slightly less offensive.
- The methodology used to identify our best and brightest for the purpose of bestowing Australia's highest honour.
- The reasons given by jurors in explaining their verdict on the Jackson trial:
"I disliked it intensely when she snapped her fingers at us. That's when I thought, don't snap your fingers at me lady!"*- The word ethnic, used as a noun.** This story came from a friend of mine, who worked at quite a nice cafe. One day this lady called up because she'd found a hair in her cake. She said to my friend:
"I'm not quite sure how to say this - but [in a confiding tone] do you have any ethnics working for you?"- The discrepancy between the actual v dictionary meaning of the word moist. It is difficult to put your finger on why, but moist is one of the dirtiest words in the English language. I have verified this observation with a lot of people, who all agree. Unless you wanted to (a) bring a level of innuendo to a conversation which is otherwise absent or (b) sexually harass people in a subtle way, there is no way you'd ever say, for example "Gee - it's shaping up to be a moist weekend".
* Thanks to Jo from Freeway 9, who pointed out that this seemed like kind of an odd reason to acquit.
** Generally speaking, ethnic seems to be used in a vaguely pejorative way (think: ethnic tensions). But the adjectival form tends to be slightly less offensive.
3 Comments:
Gross! Stop say moist!
Clare - I was moist impressed by your debut blog entry! I'm a bit late to the party in saying so but you have a new fan.
Ah shucks, thanks! Yours is excellent too.
Horridly, the weekend after I blogged this, I went away with people who found out about my feelings about moist, and used the term liberally for the rest of the weekend to describe EVERYTHING - the ground, the vegetables, clothing.
It was like a boot camp for moist tolerance.
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