December 14, 2009
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The Daily News1 Loved the weekend! Howz bout YOU?2 Don't know why, really, except that what triggered the fun was this sorta conversation I heard from a coupla students.
3 Went something like this:
Student 1: It's pronounced, "FOOK", dude! (I look up and break into a mini-smile.)
Student 2: No way.
4 And from there, the conversation drifted into the numerous other conversations going on in groups.
5 I had heard this conversation before.
6 It took me back to my very early days as a teacher.
7 I always goofed a bit on that when I was younger, to be true.
8 A GREAT friend back-in-the-day, Doug Roselli, burst into the faculty lounge one day and announced this, early in the season: "I have a student named FU%#K NO!!!!"
9 We were mostly startled, but amused! He laughed so hard that his uvula disappeared into a deep abyss.
10 I politely told him this: "Dude. They pronounce it, 'Foooooook".
11 Two white guys dude.
12 He looked at me like I had twelve heads.
13 "Haha," he said. "You believe that?"
14 To be honest, I had no answer. Well, I actually DID have the answer, which was akin to thinkin' that the correct pronunciation in another language was probably closer to his.
15 Well, anyway, that was my early indoctrination into the entire YB thing that would mark the measure the first part of my career.
16 To this day I still wonder what the real pronunciation of that guy's name was, but I'll simply laugh and assume we were just two exceedingly dumb white guys. Funny the stuff you overhear and chuckle at every now and again. Same conversation, billions of light years later. And a smile from this old brown shoe.
17 Moving on: So I hopped on the Internet last night and it wouldn't let me on.
18 AOL in particular has been "upgrading", which seems to include turning itself off, turning pink, and trying to include clover in its design. I think someone at the top has gone off his or her rocker. It's Christmastide, dude.
19 Moving on, Part the Second: Ever have the pilot light go off on yer heater?
20 It's an instant cartoon trying to get it lit.
21 For some reason, I always envision having it blow up in my face, like something in a Goofy cartoon.
22 I know all you have to do is hold a button and strike a match, but the instructions put you right into a Goofy cartoon. You start reading all the warnings and stuff, and you move around with huge shoes.
23 It lit once, then went out, and then it refused to light.
24 I was waiting for a couple of chipmunks to come in and start goofing with me.
25 Welp, I never DID get the thing working, but it made for a funny morning. I feel like I was a cartoon the whole morning!
26 Ah, vell, as I said earlier. If those are my only problems then I got no problems!
27 Going to the EV Choir concert tonight at 7. I think it's free, so if you've nothing to do, it's always nice to get out and listen to some pretty music this time of the year.
28 Have a great day everybody. Traditionally short week!
29 Enjoy it, and smile at someone. Brings joy. = ) <-----goofy sideways smiley dude
29 Peace.
~H~
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