I'm into self-satire funny today + FRT! + The Wife's getting laid
http://www.thepoorman.net/2006/05/26/pbs-schedule-for-friday-may-26-2006/
Excerpt:
3:00 AM - Ken Burns Presents: Professional Wrestling (part 10) Nothing really expresses the repressed homosexual longing at the heart of the American experience quite like the sight of beefy men in mustaches and tights groaning and grimacing as they gallop and heave against each other for an audience of young men who put their posters on their walls. How many professional wrestling characters would look out of place in the Village People? (Answer: zero.) Ken Burns brings this uniquely American activity to life in his own inimitable style. Today’s episode: Koko B. Ware breaks the parrot barrier, and ushers in a new era in wrestling pets.
Friday Random 10:
1. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
2. Nine Inch Nails - Closer
3. Flogging Molly - Another Bag of Bricks
4. Nine Inch Nails - Deep
5. Deftones - Change (In the House of Flies)
6. Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Deanna
8. 311 - Champagne
9. Sublime - April 29, 1992 (Miami)
10. Streetlight Manifesto - A Moment of Silence
This is the weekend in which I catch up with EVERYTHING! Yes, everything. To start with, I'm catching up with the bottle of Whiskers Blake Port I started last week.
The Wife teaches high school English, second-language learners. She's bringing her yearbook into class for students to sign--not "the" yearbook that the school sells, but a book she made with her mad scrapbooking skills.
One of her sweeter students wrote in her yearbook:
Have fun in the sun.
Get laid in the shade
She called the student over and said, "Stephanie, did you write this here?" "Yeah?" Quizzical look from the student. "Stephanie, what do you think this means?" (pointing to "get laid"). "Um, you know, laid back, relaxed."
...
"Stephanie...get laid means have sex."
The poor girls face just dropped into an expression of abject horror. "MISSUS! I'm sorry missus!"
"Um...where did you learn this?" "All my friends are writing it."
The Wife looked through Stephanie's book, saw another student, called her over, she thought it meant the same thing. Somebody's telling all the second-language students that "get laid" means to relax.
Which it does, if done right. Or done wrong. Depending on your point of view.